For which club did Dickie Bird OBE, Sir Geoffrey Boycott and Sir Michael Parkinson play? Surely, everybody – even me – knows the answer. Barnsley Cricket Club. After visiting Shaw Lane Sports Club, to watch a Viking Cup quarter-final against York, I know quite a bit more about the Barnsley club. The eventful history of […]
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Hedar Rasool: No Room for Racism In Cricket
Sometimes, cricket’s obsession with rules gets in the way of common sense. Hedar Rasool, of Rockingham Colliery Cricket Club, has been prevented from wearing a cricket jumper with ‘No Room for Racism in Cricket’ on the front by his local league. There is history here. Hedar says he was a victim of racist abuse in […]
Tian Koekemoer: Taking all ten wickets for Tickhill
History was made at Shaw Lane on Saturday as Tian Koekemoer became the first player to take all ten wickets in an innings (10-38) since the establishment of the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League. Koekemoer, from Eastern Province in South Africa, had already contributed 40 with the bat before putting in a stunning bowling performance […]
Elsecar Cricket Club vs Barnsley Woolley Miners at Crab Field
I’ve started the 2022 cricket season in pretty good nick. For me, ‘good nick’ means, during the early weeks of the summer, when enthusiasm is sky-high, watching games at grounds that have spent too long on my ‘must-get-around-to-visiting’ list. Elsecar Cricket Club’s Crab Field (crab apple trees once grew along one side) falls into this […]
Jane Pratt and Jo Ibbotson to umpire Crowther Cup Final
It is rare to see a female cricket umpire in men’s cricket so when I heard that Jane Pratt and Jo Ibbotson were to umpire the Crowther Cup Final, it was a chance to talk to them both about their journey with officiating. Jane spoke to me for the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast (see interview below […]
Byron Boshoff eyes a season of promise at Wakefield Thornes
Bill Marshall chats to Byron Boshoff of Wakefield Thornes about playing Premier League cricket in South Yorkshire. Any overseas batsman with serious pretensions sets themselves a four-figure target for the season when playing in English league cricket. 28-year-old South African Byron Boshoff is no exception. The former Stellenbosch University student certainly made a decent start, […]