There is nothing quite like delivering positive news on a Monday morning for kickstarting the week. Not so long ago, Cricket Yorkshire ran its first competition of 2017 – an absolute belter if I say so myself – in association with our website partner B3 Cricket – to win a custom-made cricket bat. This was […]
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Video for cricket clubs spearheads CricHQ revolution
The Queens Hotel in central Leeds is buzzing with tables in their Queens Bar taken up for business meetings. Stewart Reynolds, CricHQ’s Sales Manager for Europe, joins me for a mid-morning brew and to outline how the company are making noticeable technological strides aimed at recreational cricket. If you’re not familiar with them, CricHQ offer […]
Climate Cover helps Get The Game On
As the frost crackles the leaves and we all cross our fingers against winter floods, spare a thought for the groundsmen around the country safeguarding sporting facilities from the elements. Based in Northampton, the company total-play has been working with those professional and amateur groundsmen, designing and installing top-quality sports surfaces, including cricket covers, since […]
Dickie Bird: My Life in Cricket
Harold “Dickie” Bird, he of the iconic white umpire’s cap and mischievous humour wrapped in a broad Barnsley accent, has had many honours bestowed over the years from MBE and OBE to Yorkshire County Cricket Club President. The latest focus on the charismatic octagenarian sees an exhibition entitled ‘Dickie Bird: My Life in Cricket’ in […]
B3 Cricket looks to a bold future for cricket bats
After a frenetic pre-Christmas rush to fulfil cricket bat orders while moving their headquarters to an old textile factory in nearby Hucknall, B3 Cricket are relishing all that 2017 has in store. The Nottinghamshire bat company have ambitious plans to set up their own Cricket Academy to coach the current and next generation of cricketers […]
The cricket umpire whose DNA was damaged by the sun
David Barnes will be known to many in league cricket across West Yorkshire, and his story, told to me when we met at a cup final last month, is a cautionary tale worth heeding. After retiring from Southport Trinity Cricket Club in the South West Lancashire League, he began a distinguished career as an umpire first […]
Three cracking cup finals in a day at Scotton
While not my final destination, the 9.54 Sunday service through to Knaresborough was swelled with Yorkshire fans off to watch their heroes against Surrey in the cup semi at Headingley. As we all gathered waiting for permission to board, a man caught my eye for his commendable T-shirt with YORKSHIRE plastered across his belly in […]
Meet the cricketers who walked from Headingley to Scarborough
Folk don’t half undertake some daft, ok, admirable challenges for a good cause. By the time you read this, Mark Sugden and Daniel Hill, who play and coach at Rodley Cricket Club, will have completed their charity walk from Headingley to Scarborough in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research. That’s eighty miles over four days with […]
Who will be crowned the best cricket club in Yorkshire?
After months of fixtures across Yorkshire’s four ECB Premier Leagues stretching back to April, the push to be the champion club is intensifying. Clubs from the Bradford Premier League, ECB Yorkshire League North, ECB Yorkshire South and North Yorkshire South Durham Cricket League are jostling to win their league and qualify for semi-finals at either […]
Yorkshire Cricket Foundation and the power of sporting memories
Until now, I’d never set foot inside the Yorkshire Cricket Museum but as the electric shutters juddered up, a world of memorabilia led me through Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s esteemed history. @YCCC_YCF to celebrate Yorkshire day the great man is bedecked in the colours he created #HappyYorkshireDay pic.twitter.com/XxjTvqklm0 — Melway42 (@Melway42) August 1, 2016 It […]