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 […]
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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. […]
Yorkshire Pathways: Elite Junior cricket in Yorkshire
Since last October, Jim Love has been in post as the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Elite Junior Cricket Coordinator. I talked to him recently about his role as well as the ongoing plans for junior cricket in Yorkshire. Jim comes with a substantial playing and coaching CV that includes two decades of first-class cricket for Yorkshire […]
Who’s Who of The Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Who’s Who of The Yorkshire County Cricket Club sounds like it could be the most contentious book ever written. The only way to avoid controversy over who’s in and who’s out in a mammoth compilation of this kind is to include all 670 men who have represented the county. Yes, that’s all those who played […]
Scarborough Cricket Festival: Have you any tales for my new book?
The Scarborough Cricket Festival is an integral part of the cricketing calendar here in Yorkshire. Did you know that county cricket on the North Yorkshire coast has been an annual treat since 1876 when MCC played Yorkshire in a nine-day programme? From the very first time of taking the train over and stepping out into […]
Adam Lyth on T20 lessons abroad and fatherhood
Yorkshire County Cricket Club batsman Adam Lyth is at home and about to feed his baby daughter, Ruby, but finds time to reflect on a winter packed with new experiences. The thirty-year-old from Whitby made the headlines last summer with a sensational 161 off 73 balls against Northamptonshire in a televised NatWest T20 Blast game. […]
Who would be your Christmas guests from any era of cricket?
The Christmas turkey is in the oven, the pigs in blankets are tucked up, there is not a sprout in sight (author’s licence) and enough roast potatoes to feed an entire cricket club. All you need are your guests…but in this utopian, sprout-free world, who would you choose to invite from the world of cricket, […]
Stars of tomorrow: Yorkshire’s age-group cricketers
Last week, I had the good fortune to bag an invite to the Yorkshire age group cricket presentation evening in the Long Room at Emerald Headingley Stadium. It was a way of getting updated on how the boys’ county under tens through to under twelves have fared this season along with the respective development squads. […]
What are the lingering questions for Yorkshire CCC fans?
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 […]