One weekend, two short games. Cricket’s unpredictable nature ranks highly amongst the sport’s many appeals, but it is very frustrating for the spectator when what looks, on paper, like being a tight contest turns out, on grass, to be nothing of the sort. So it was, on the last weekend of July, when a Saturday […]
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Yorkshire ECB Premier Divisions: Our halfway review of 2025
With the 2025 season at or approaching its halfway mark, the leaders of Yorkshire’s five ECB Premier Divisions are Castleford, New Farnley, Rastrick, Richmondshire, and Wakefield Thornes. Ten rounds into the Huddersfield Premier League’s first season with ECB Premier League status, Rastrick have a two-point lead over Hoylandswaine. Rastrick, who boast an impressive player budget […]
National Club KO: Round 1 results, scores and top performers
The ECB National Club Championship saw cricket clubs in Yorkshire battle it out in Round 1 over the weekend. (There have been preliminary rounds beforehand).The chance to show what you can do against other Yorkshire sides and then nationally holds plenty of intrigue. These are really a set of cup finals, difficult to predict and […]
Rotherham Town future in doubt after controversial vote
Rotherham Town Cricket Club have withdrawn their two senior teams from the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League after an Extraordinary Members’ Meeting (EGM). The late withdrawal means that there can be no fixture reshuffle and so sides who were due to face Rotherham Town will have blank weekends across the summer in Divisions 1 and […]
Five blockbuster Premier League transfers for 2025
We’ve covered winter transfers quite a bit on the website given the interest in player moves – so, this is a last wrap on a few names that caught my eye, as we head into the UK outdoor season. 🏏 Matthew Weston (Woodlands) Unusually for Woodlands of the Bradford Premier League, they have changed their […]
Yorkshire clubs aim high as National Club Championship returns
In the 2025 edition of the ECB National Club Championship, Sunday 13 April is Preliminary Round 1 as clubs begin to lock horns in their respective groups. In this preview, we’ll look at which Yorkshire cricket clubs are playing and their early-season battles. After group stages and regional finals, we move to the national stages […]
Eye-catching transfers across Yorkshire’s Premier Leagues
If you’re reading this in March (or later), you might have missed this transfers snapshot from early-2025. Since my last feature picking out eight player moves, there’s been more deals done. If opportunity presents itself, I will dabble with the moves from other Yorkshire leagues but for now, I’ve picked out a few player transfers […]
Yorkshire CCC: Talent search in Premier Leagues
Yorkshire County Cricket Club have announced a talent scouting initiative in the region’s five ECB Premier Leagues. In an interview on the YCCC website, Yorkshire’s general manager of cricket Gavin Hamilton shared plans to identify players, aged from 17-22, in the top tier of club cricket. Photo: Caught Light Photography Hamilton said: “League cricket in […]
Eight player transfers to watch for the 2025 season
In Yorkshire club cricket, the transfer market has been in full swing as teams across leagues strengthen their squads. There’s been quite a few player moves this side of Christmas and I’ve picked out eight that caught my eye. Sam Wisniewski (Pudsey Congs to Wakefield Thornes) Left-arm wrist-spinner Sam Wisniewski is swapping leagues as the […]
Premier Leagues Preview: White Rose Trophy Semi-Finals
Change is in the air in this year’s White Rose Trophy; the end-of-season knockout competition to crown Yorkshire’s top Premier League club. After Woodlands of the Bradford Premier League have dominated for the past two years; the only club to win back-to-back titles, they are not in the picture in 2024. Instead, New Farnley have […]