On a roasting hot day at Barnsley Cricket Club, Yorkshire 2nd XI took on Northamptonshire seconds in back-to-back T20s. The prospect of seeing Vikings overseas signing and current Australia T20 captain Aaron Finch make his long-awaited return from a hamstring injury ensured an even healthier crowd. Deckchairs were parked in prime locations and the white […]
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Leeds Bradford MCCU’s T20 triumph at Weetwood
After being given a ‘bye’ because their morning opponents Newcastle University had been unable to field a team, Leeds Bradford MCCU took on Durham MCCU at Weetwood in the afternoon sunshine for a place at the MCC / Red Bull T20 Finals Day on Monday 15th June. The winners of that mid-June extravaganza in Oxford […]
Bradford Park Avenue cricket
Do you remember that weirdly warm few weeks in April when summer briefly gatecrashed spring and the mercury soared? During that balmy period, there was the chance to go and watch a cricket match at Bradford Park Avenue where two teams from the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League, Interlink and Omar, were shaking off winter […]
Aire Wharfe Cricket: Olicanian vs Calverley
After a stint covering the action at Ilkley Cricket Club on Saturday, the proximity of more cricket was too tempting to pass up so it was on to Olicanian Cricket Club whose firsts were at home and taking on Calverley St Wilifrid’s CC. From Ilkley’s ground, you scooch down Denton Road, passing Ilkley Lido on […]
Ilkley Cricket Club vs Rawdon
It was a productive Saturday of club cricket with the sun out although a fierce wind that could strip the warmth from bone marrow in seconds made it a three-jumper strategy out on the cricket fields around Ilkley. Cricket Yorkshire was there, alternating between a barrage of images with the DSLR camera and then driven […]
PHOTOS: Cheteshwar Pujara arrives and hit the nets
Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara is here. Well, not here in the Cricket Office office, that really would be a scoop. No, he’s arrived at Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Friday morning saw the sun shine at Headingley and he was into the nets to shake off the jetlag. As an Indian coming to Yorkshire to play […]