Jeremy Lonsdale shares his photos and county memories from when Adam Lyth and Alex Lees scored 375 at Northampton in 2014. With little prospect of county cricket for a while, now is a good time to look back at a few recent memorable moments for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. This piece remembers one of the […]
Yorkshire CCC
Can Yorkshire CCC success be ruled by the stars?
Former Yorkshire off-spinner and President-elect of the Yorkshire CCC Players’ Association, Peter Whiteley, has evidently been busy during lockdown. There have been many stellar performances by Yorkshire cricketers since the club’s formation in 1863 but he has posed the question: can cricketing success be ruled by the stars? The Yorkshire CCC Handbook lists 673 players […]
Lascelles Hall Cricket Club: Playing Yorkshire CCC
Tony Hutton looks at the history of Lascelles Hall Cricket Club (on the Eastern outskirts of Huddersfield) and an enduring association with playing Yorkshire County Cricket Club down the years. The cricket club at Lascelles Hall, originally a very small village just outside Huddersfield, was founded in 1825 which makes it one of the oldest […]
White Rose Forum keeps Yorkshire fans connected from Castleford to California
The White Rose Forum (WRF) is proof that amid the breakneck speed of technology and snowballing innovation online, a chance for a natter about cricket without emojis or character limits has its unquestionable place. A cricket forum can be a thriving community, a hotbed of debate or a place where people grumble and throw stones […]
Honorary Tyke: When Sachin Tendulkar came to Yorkshire
Thomas Blow, who writes for The Cricketer magazine, speaks to Cricket Yorkshire about his new book: The Honorary Tyke. *** I am delighted to announce my debut book, The Honorary Tyke, is now available to purchase. The book is an exhaustive account of Sachin Tendulkar’s summer at Yorkshire CCC, remembering a defining moment in the […]
Last of the Summer Wickets Book: Scarborough Cricket Festival
If you hadn’t heard, my book about the Scarborough Cricket Festival called Last of the Summer Wickets was published in May 2019. It’s available to buy as a paperback or Kindle e-book on Amazon while Waterstones and other fine stores across the land will stock the paperback version of Last of the Summer Wickets. So…what’s […]
