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 […]
Yorkshire Premier League North
Scarborough Cricket Club withdraws 1st XI from YPLN
Scarborough Cricket Club have withdrawn their 1st XI from the Attis ECB Yorkshire Premier League North Cricket League with immediate effect. It’s an extraordinary development given the history and resources of the club, not to mention Scarborough’s position as a Yorkshire County Cricket Club outground. Scarborough’s 2nd and 3rd XI’s are unchanged in the Championship […]
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 […]
Aire-Wharfe League: Rodley and Follifoot await vote nervously
In the Aire-Wharfe Cricket League, there is an annual vote by all member clubs, revealed at their AGM, as to whether to retain the two lowest ranked clubs – or eject them. For 2024, the two clubs at risk of being without a cricket league to join for 2025 are Rodley and Follifoot. It is […]
At the Crease: Latest club cricket news from around Yorkshire
Kate Duffield signs for Doncaster Town Kate Duffield, from Auckland University Cricket Club, has signed for Doncaster Town Cricket Club for 2025. The Kiwi teen was part of the Auckland team who won the Kookaburra U17 Girls National tournament at the start of the year and she replaces Laura Scheiwe at Doncaster Town. All-rounder Duffield […]
Caught Light: Reflections from a busy club cricket season
A rough count of grassroots cricket games I’ve been to this season, seems to come out at around 65. That is a personal best for a single season in the last decade, and I must admit for the vast majority of visits, it has been a real pleasure. As October arrives, I wanted to sit […]
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 […]
Three becomes one: Yorkshire Premier League North merger
Years ago, I made one of my crystal ball-gazing predictions that the landscape in Yorkshire club cricket would see much bigger leagues but less of them. A decade on and that seems to have chimed true with the likes of the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League and Yorkshire Premier League North now gigantic – and […]
Patrington edge Brandesburton in Premier Division Two race
You would expect, come mid-August, sixth against seventh, in a 12-team competition, to be a dead rubber. Not in the 2024 Yorkshire Premier League North’s second tier! The league’s new Premier Division Two, to launch next year, will comprise teams placed second to sixth from this season’s Championship East and Championship West. The two 2024 […]