Over the course of about a decade with Cricket Yorkshire, I’ve been fortunate to form partnerships with charities, companies and governing bodies. Working with Opening Up Cricket has been going a couple of years now and it takes the form of writing about them and by shouting from the rooftops of the internet. This is […]
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The Hundred: Will it convert you?
As something a bit different for Cricket Yorkshire readers, now the regular club cricket season has drawn to a close, I thought I’d put together a few thoughts on The Hundred; the new 8-team, city-based professional tournament coming to England & Wales in 2020. Unless you’ve been on another solar system, you will have a […]
Can franchise cricket keep teens in the game for longer?
For this episode of the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast, I went to Sowerby Bridge Cricket Club who were hosting the ZWINGO® Halifax Junior Cricket League U19 T20 Final. Even if the Twenty20 concept is tried and tested professionally, this interpretation was new for Yorkshire club cricket. Four squads – Northern Knights, Western Wolves, Eastern Eagles and Southern Spartans […]
Has anyone scored more runs in Yorkshire than Jabir Patel?
You only have to cast your eye down the weekly honours boards for batting and bowling for the ECB’s Play Cricket website platform to note how many cricketers across Yorkshire excel across the county. However, Jabir Patel of Mount Cricket Club has taken it to another level. He has sustained an incredible run of form in […]
All Stars Cricket offers Crossflatts a promising future
Thanks to the first rain I can recall since May, I am walking along Keighley Road, soggy and pondering wretched luck – but coaches Lee Bailey and Mark Pennington have kindly agreed to meet anyway to discuss how All Stars cricket has gone down at Crossflatts Cricket Club. In case you haven’t heard about All Stars […]
Martin Ivill on life as Yorkshire Over 60s cricket captain
Nowhere in the lyrics by the Beatles of ‘When I’m 64’ does it mention scrapping against the new ball on a sapping afternoon at Kirkstall Educational in the Over 60s County Championship. Such reticence by John Lennon and Paul McCartney reflects the fact that even though cricket is viewed as a game where we can play […]
Is this the most incredible scorecard of the cricket season?
Hampsthwaite Firsts vs Ouseburn 2nd XI in Division Four of the Nidderdale Cricket League wouldn’t, at first glance, be an obvious fixture to showcase on the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast. However, this match has one of the most eye-catching scorecards you’ll see this season. It features a sizzling double-hundred, a record-breaking tenth-wicket partnership and a victory […]
Cononley & Steeton: Two cricket leagues in an afternoon by rail
Something a bit different for this episode of the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast as I headed off by train and on foot to explore two grounds I’d not been to before. The cricket podcast is recorded out and about so get ready for birds chirping, cricketers chirping and it was a blustery day so on occasion, […]
Yorkshire CCC Chairman Steve Denison on the 100-ball competition
For the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast, Yorkshire County Cricket Club Chairman Steve Denison shared his thoughts on the furore around the 100-ball format earmarked for 2020; a competition that caused howls of protest from media and fans alike. If you have been living on the moon and are blissfully oblivious of the news, here’s a brief […]
Ray Illingworth on Farsley and life in the Bradford League
For an assignment on behalf of The Cricket Paper, I found myself puffing up Red Lane to Bradford League outfit, Farsley Cricket Club. On a day with only the occasional whisper of wind and a crackling heat, getting myself thoroughly lost amid the myriad of streets from New Pudsey station proved thirsty work. Farsley turned […]