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The train from Sheffield to Dore and Totley bounced along the track as we huffed and puffed along the Hope Valley line. It’s only a short walk from the railway station to Abbeydale Sports Club, with the path leading uphill past the shock pink and blue hockey astroturf and a building on the left that […]

Everyday we all get bombarded with marketing messages. Do this. Buy this. Think this. The trouble with that, apart from being relentless and exhausting, is that you can miss the outstanding deals when they come along. Yorkshire County Cricket Club are offering club cricketers from across the county the chance to enjoy a day of […]

What do you know about the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation? As part of our partnership during the cricket season, we’ll be showcasing stories and activities from the charity on this website – but first, here’s an introduction… The Foundation was established with the aim of providing cricket-based education and community programmes across Yorkshire. The cricket not-for-profit […]

We all remember it; whether at the ground, listening on BBC Radio Leeds or tracking progress on social media or Cricinfo. Wednesday 9th September, 3.04pm. Andrew Gale was batting at Lord’s and had crunched a boundary to the Tavern Stand when news filtered through that Nottinghamshire had been bowled out for 204 at Trent Bridge. […]

My own earliest memories of cricket are from the dim and distant past when I first played for my school team in the eighties. In junior school, I was a beanpole, marginally successful, left-arm ‘spinner’ who didn’t spin the ball. Nowadays, they call that delivery ‘the arm ball’ but back then, kids would chuckle and […]

It was time for another Cricket Yorkshire travel adventure…if you’ve not been before, Altofts Cricket Club lies at the Northern fringes of this Yorkshire village outside Wakefield. The quickest route on foot from Normanton railway station requires a meander along Wakefield Wheel, a pleasant path that cuts through grassland and on a day as I […]

The two-carriage industrial tinbox destined for Harrogate is popular this particular Sunday morning at Leeds station. Little wonder as it’s the third day of the Investec Test match at Headingley between England and New Zealand. Clusters of cricket fans loiter at each of the entrances to the train, waiting for the doors to open and […]

When you picture a cricket pitch, what comes to mind? Is it an immaculate grass surface full of runs that does a bit for the bowler? How you answer might well depend on your particular skillset. As a league bowler of ever diminishing pace down the years, a green top that got the ball seaming […]

Ok, let’s shatter a few myths early doors before we get to the good stuff. These are not the Oscars. There are no golden statuettes and painful speeches by tearful celebrities who feel the need to ramble incoherently for what feels like days. This is so much better than that. These are the OSCAs – […]

The good news keeps on coming this ‘summer’ (although we’re on British Summer Time, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Yorkshire weather has other plans). Cricket Yorkshire has struck a deal with Carl Marsden from Raven Cricket to promote their cricket bats during the 2015 season. Why Raven in particular? It would be easy for […]