The county cricket season is officially over for Yorkshire CCC and in the harsh light of a crushing 376-run defeat in Essex, it has been far from a classic for those supporting the White Rose. That final nail in the 2017 coffin was the heaviest defeat (by runs) in the history of the club. Ponder that for a moment but… Read more →

I was meant to be at the Sunday of England’s Test match battle with the West Indies at Headingley. I’d been looking forward to it for months as Test cricket in Yorkshire is a carnival party and when the eyes of the cricketing world lock on our wonderful county. As it turned out, life dealt me something out of the… Read more →

Journalists milled around, shooting the breeze, making phone calls and waiting for a particular car to arrive at Bradford Park Avenue cricket ground. Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s new overseas player, Sarfaraz Ahmed, who captains Pakistan in all three formats, was due any minute to meet the media and talk to cricket fans at the new cricket net facility in the… Read more →

The advent of day-night County Championship cricket with a pink ball. What would Fred Trueman have made of it all? It was tempting to suggest the historic part of this experiment was not the floodlights or late start times but the presence of all of the England players for their counties. Seeing Jonny Bairstow playing for either Yorkshire or England… Read more →

Harry Brook (pictured right with Yorkshire Academy) is having the kind of week where he must be pinching himself. The eighteen year-old, who hails from Keighley, was recently awarded a full-time junior professional contract by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and is now in the midst of his Championship debut down at Lord’s. Keeping an ear to the ground has flagged… Read more →

This year’s Bradford Literature Festival takes place between 30 June and 9 July incorporating 400 writers and 300 events across ten days. It promises to be a wonderful whirlwind of literature, debate and entertainment for all ages and I’m delighted to be a guest panellist on 1 July at 11am in Bradford’s City Hall Banqueting Suite. The 75-minute event is:… Read more →