Opinion

Garfield might like Mondays, I prefer this Tuesday. If, like me you have waited patiently (at first) for winter to jog on so the county season could come round again, well, IT IS FINALLY HERE. Sorry for shouty capitals but it’s only when you miss something; yearn for it, perhaps even quietly grieve; that its […]

Congratulations to Australia’s World Cup winners! They were everything that England weren’t. With the bat they were bold and powerful, with the ball they were sharp and skilful. They dominated a tournament where the weak sides were painfully exposed, none more so than England. England’s campaign was poor, expectations were low and the players failed […]

This ‘overseas player signs for Yorkshire’ news story is not generally the realm of Cricket Yorkshire but this was too tempting to pass over. Besides, you might need a guide to steer you through the maze that has become the protracted tangle of Yorkshire’s overseas player roster for 2015. View image | gettyimages.com So, first […]

Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird, announced this morning, in a world-exclusive for CricketYorkshire.com that he has decided to campaign for the job of Prime Minister. The current President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club showed his people power when he was recently re-elected for a second term of office at Headingley and as the current MP for cricket […]

Here’s a thought for you all. We might never have had NatWest CricketForce and all the great work clubs do for their facilities each Spring, if it wasn’t for Charlie Dimmock. The NatWest CricketForce concept – where clubs galvanise volunteers one pre-season weekend annually to make running repairs – evolved originally from the popularity of […]

Who are you all? What does a usual day pan out like? What do you eat or read? Ok, I could go on but already you’re probably wondering where this is going… **Before I do so, you have two options. You can read about the world of market research and understanding who cricket fans are […]

Right. That’s it. I have had enough. Consider this England’s World Cup rocket from a position of extreme grumpiness. I have sat up into the early hours, with only a strong mug of tea and a crème egg for companionship, to watch England get absolutely decimated three times now. There comes a tipping point in […]

Following on from football’s re-shuffling of a global tournament, we have something of a world exclusive… **The 2019 creeckit World Cup in England will now be held in December.** It will have its own hashtag and everything: #wintercricketworldcup. Woolly hats off to the organisers for realising that this bold move will radically shake up world […]

Here’s something of an odd admission to kick off a cricket book review. I don’t tend to read cricket books; at least not for a bit of light entertainment away from work. The Cricket Yorkshire office has had its January de-clutter so is looking even more Spartan than normal. Even so, the absence of books […]

The fact that Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s opening fixture of the 2015 county season takes place on another continent is, well, a bit of an oddity.