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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Crunching along the gravel path at Bradford Park Avenue’s cricket ground off Canterbury Avenue took me to the newly installed eight-lane, non-turf cricket nets. Walls of chipboard and construction detritus highlight that this ambitious £5.5m project to transform a much-loved former county cricket venue into a top-class sports facility are ongoing but that in itself […]

When I was sixteen, I thought about cricket, girls and the next meal. The motivations of Julius Caesar, fiendish fractions and the periodic table went in one ear and out the other. This might have explained why my GCSE results passed only a vague resemblance to the infinitely more positive predicted grades my teachers thought […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]