Think of this as your Cricket Yorkshire diary for the year ahead with a smattering of recommendations across Yorkshire cricket. From World Cups to little-known Dales encounters, sit back and enjoy this preview. 6 January – Cricket in the Yorkshire Dales Meet at the Buck Inn, Malham at 12 noon for what is usually the […]
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View from the stands on Yorkshire Vikings’ Abu Dhabi T20 adventure
Yorkshire County Cricket Club fan Phil Rose reports from Abu Dhabi on the inaugural Abu Dhabi T20. Images taken by Dubai-based pro photographer Neville Hopwood who was kind enough to respond to emails on his Sunday while out in the world’s largest sand desert called the Empty Quarter. Over to Phil…. In case you missed it, Yorkshire […]
Yorkshire Diamonds fired up for Kia Super League
On the walk up Beechwood Crescent to the Yorkshire Diamonds Media Day, swifts zigzagged above, doing aerobatic circuits through the terraced houses. A pitstop at Ugly Mugs cafe allowed pause for thought about the advent of the 2018 Kia Super League with the Yorkshire Diamonds starting against Western Storm at Taunton on Sunday 22nd July. […]
Martin Ivill on life as Yorkshire Over 60s cricket captain
Nowhere in the lyrics by the Beatles of ‘When I’m 64’ does it mention scrapping against the new ball on a sapping afternoon at Kirkstall Educational in the Over 60s County Championship. Such reticence by John Lennon and Paul McCartney reflects the fact that even though cricket is viewed as a game where we can play […]
Yorkshire CCC Chairman Steve Denison on the 100-ball competition
For the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast, Yorkshire County Cricket Club Chairman Steve Denison shared his thoughts on the furore around the 100-ball format earmarked for 2020; a competition that caused howls of protest from media and fans alike. If you have been living on the moon and are blissfully oblivious of the news, here’s a brief […]
Katie Levick on her leg-spin and county ambitions
Drum roll, please….Yorkshire Women’s CCC’s Katie Levick is now officially the leading wicket taker in the history of the Women’s County Championship. We caught up for an episode of the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast (clip below) and it’s a record that the leg-spinner from Sheffield is rightly proud of claiming as her own. In our interview, […]
Alex Lees on his fresh start, self-belief and batting stance
Yorkshire CCC opening batsman Alex Lees is talking to me as the echo of conversation bounces off the walls in the sports hall under the East Stand. The capricious nature of the weather has brought with it a flurry of snow so the interviews are indoors and we grab a few minutes before the team […]
Jack Brooks on fitness, form and emptying the bars when he’s batting
Yorkshire County Cricket Club seam bowler Jack Brooks must have broken a few mirrors last season such was his bad luck with injury. Sporting what he laughingly refers to as an Oxfordshire tan after catching the sun in the pre-season tour to Potchefstroom, the Headband Warrior is on fine form at the County Media Day. As […]
Three Things you never knew about Yorkshire CCC signing Billy Stanlake
You will read a great deal about Billy Stanlake in the coming hours and days. Notably, that he is tall (second only to the totemic Indian beanpole Mohammad Irfan by my tape-measure), fast (clocked at 151km/h or 93.8mph) and the real deal (just ask England or New Zealand in the recent trans-Tasman T20 tri-series). WICKET! New […]
Alex Wharf on making the grade as international umpire
On learning that former Yorkshire all-rounder Alex Wharf had been appointed to the Emirates International Panel of ICC Umpires for 2018, I got on the phone to have a blether. Wharf came up through Yorkshire Academy but the right-arm medium-fast bowler moved to Nottinghamshire in 1997 after being unable to cement a spot at Headingley. […]