For many of you cricketers, February signals a changing in the seasons just as surely as entering a different time zone: back to nets (BTN). Preparation for this ritual will depend on whether you spend winter oiling your cricket bat with affection or open your cricket bag, after months of fermentation, with a hazmat suit […]
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Yorkshire Pathways: Elite Junior cricket in Yorkshire
Since last October, Jim Love has been in post as the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Elite Junior Cricket Coordinator. I talked to him recently about his role as well as the ongoing plans for junior cricket in Yorkshire. Jim comes with a substantial playing and coaching CV that includes two decades of first-class cricket for Yorkshire […]
Tom Kohler-Cadmore on cricket bats, power and mindset
Yorkshire County Cricket Club batsman Tom Kohler-Cadmore is on the phone and we are talking raw materials. Dynamic, destructive, a typical Kohler-Cadmore innings tends to take on a demonic look when you cast your eye over the scorebook. 6.6.6. A Pepsi Max(imum), you might say. Pepsi’s his nickname in case you were wondering…not just because […]
Restrictions on overseas cricketers are damaging club cricket
The news that Frinton-on-Sea Cricket Club lost their appeal to a Tribunal of the Two Counties Cricket Championship (TCCC) over the eligibility of their Australian player, Blake Reed, could have far-reaching implications for club cricket. If you’re unfamiliar with the saga to date, it revolves around an Essex club defending the status of one of […]
Yorkshire Cricket Foundation celebrates a blockbuster summer
The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation (YCF) has been at full throttle this summer delivering education and community programmes all over Yorkshire with a cricketing twist. As the final feature of our series of articles showcasing what the cricket charity (based at Yorkshire County Cricket Club) does, we thought a roundup of their activities would offer readers […]
Women’s Soft Ball Cricket Festivals prove popular
Get ready for women’s soft ball cricket: a fun and sociable version of cricket has been introduced to encourage women to get involved with the game. Women’s Soft Ball Cricket Festivals have been taking place up and down the country with Cottingham, Driffield Town, St Chad’s Broomfield and Sheffield Collegiate just some of the clubs […]
Yorkshire Cricket Foundation’s mission on heritage
Where better than the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation Museum to learn about the future direction of the cricketing heritage of the county? After a group of primary schoolchildren have been shown around by Mel Reuben, one of the charity’s Tour Guides, quiet descends and I sit down with Paul Goodman, Heritage Manager for the Yorkshire Cricket […]
YCB OSCAs champion the role of volunteering in cricket
If it was up to me, I would stream the Yorkshire Cricket Board Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards (OSCAs) ceremony live and make it compulsory viewing for those that portray grassroots cricket in a negative light. For a couple of hours, ahead of David Willey’s whirlwind hundred and Yorkshire’s T20 win over Worcestershire Rapids, invited […]
Think Outside the Box with Crazy Catch
Listen up. Cricket practice has just got an upgrade. To coincide with the Women’s World Cup, Crazy Catch have unleashed a campaign called ‘Think Outside the Box’ designed to showcase new and innovative Crazy Catch drills, with England star Tammy Beaumont and Director of Cricket at Millfield School, Mark Garaway. This series of six drills, […]
Allstars at St Chad’s: action-packed fun for under-nines
After one of the driest starts to a cricket season in Yorkshire, the pregnant clouds hovering over St Chads Broomfield Cricket Club signalled it was going to chuck it down; not a matter of if but when. No matter….contingency plans had been made to book the St Chad’s Parish Centre next to the ground to […]