Cricket Yorkshire Teas of the Year 2026: Winners

The Cricket Yorkshire Teas of the Year 2026, supported by Yorkshire Tea has now been decided.

The competition, in its fifth year, champions club cricket teas in Yorkshire, as well as the tea-makers and their stories.

Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to nominate a club. We say this every year but the quality, generosity and creativity is so impressive.

Not all clubs can – or want to – serve a cricket tea but Teas of the Year shows that there are many who butter, bake and brew to serve their members and communities in style.

🥳 HIGHLY COMMENDED

Economical Over Award

We decided that two clubs should be ‘Highly Commended’ for their efforts with cricket teas on a budget of £60 or less.

Darton Cricket Club (Highly Commended, Economical Over Award)

Darton Cricket Club wowed us with their fresh ingredients and homegrown produce such as strawberries, spring onions, parsley and mint. Teas at this Pontefract & District Cricket League club are generous and well presented.

Kat Ruston began doing teas on a Sunday at the start of the 2025 season and, along with other volunteers, has served everything from Indian platters with fresh raita to cheese and charcuterie board.

Ingrow Cricket Club (Highly Commended, Economical Over Award)

Ingrow Cricket Club (above) deserved recognition in our budget category with evidence of a bountiful cricket tea each week.

Ingrow do so well while only spending no more than £40 per cricket tea. A pasta bake and pizza sits alongside a giant victoria sponge, banana and butterscotch muffins (yum) and fresh slabs of watermelon.

Both Darton & Ingrow win 1,200 Yorkshire Tea teabags to keep their kettles topped up for many matches to come.

🫖 Bottomless Teapot Award

What better way to celebrate a proper brew with Yorkshire Tea?

This category shines a light on those who have been serving cricket teas for at least a year – and in some cases decades.

Trish Wood, Stainland Cricket Club (Highly Commended, Bottomless Teapot Award)

Stainland Cricket Club have won our teas competition before and they galvanised their membership to put forward another compelling entry in 2026.

We have awarded Trish Wood a ‘Highly Commended’ for her dedication over years at a club that prides itself on a friendly welcome and terrific hospitality.

Stainland have a group of helpers (adults and juniors) who contribute but Trish is at the heart of things. From bubbling curries to homemade sausage rolls and fabulous cakes, Stainland are well known for their stellar teas with good reason.

Ilkley Cricket Club (Highly Commended, The Showstopper)

This category is for the best cricket tea that your club has done this season. It had to grab our attention – many of you did!

From fruit skewers to herby bites, generous pesto chicken wraps to wedges of quiche, Ilkley’s choice and care with presentation caught our eye.

I particularly liked the de-constructed ploughman’s and grazing platters – well done to the rota of helpers for how they look after players, officials and spectators.

🏆 WINNERS

Economical Over Award

Winner: Millhouses Works CC

Our winner in the budget category is Millhouses Works Cricket Club in south-west Sheffield. Lucy Atherton does the teas for the club’s 2nd XI and the colourful and inventive selection really stood out.

Lucy’s salads (chicken tikka and chickpea, beetroot and apple as well as roasted pepper, feta and pine nut) look an amazing, healthy option.

Sausage rolls, quiches and her homemade lemon curd and buttercream cake all looked worth diving into. It’s an Atherton ensemble with 2nd XI captain Richard and their daughter also helping out.

Favourable feedback has included a visiting Over 50s international comparing it to the banquets served at Lord’s. Millhouses Works win 1,500 Yorkshire Tea teabags and a trophy for Lucy / the clubhouse.

Bottomless Teapot Award

Winner: Janice Crowther (Bradshaw Cricket Club)

There are cricket tea-makers across Yorkshire who have been doing it for years. Our idea behind the Bottomless Teapot is to acknowledge someone whose dedication shines through.

The teas at Bradshaw Cricket Club for their 1st XI and 2nd XI are made by Janice Crowther. She was talked out of semi-retirement when her son Matthew took on the first-team captaincy this season.

The Crowther family are fully involved at Bradshaw with Janice’s sons in both teams and her husband Matthew does the ground.

The teas feed 40+ people and the cakes, pies and sausage rolls are all home-made during the week. Her onion bhajis go down a storm apparently.

Big mugs of Yorkshire Tea wash down the many offerings that fill tables to groaning point. She told me: “There are some things I refuse to skimp on. Lurpak must be used and I only buy meat from our local butcher.”

Hot food can be mini Yorkshire puds with chilli or pork sandwiches with apple sauce. I wonder if she’s on JustEat?! Janice wins 1,500 Yorkshire Tea teabags for her club, a trophy and vouchers for Bettys Afternoon Tea.

The Showstopper Award

Winner: Barwick in Elmet Cricket Club

Barwick in Elmet Cricket Club has been Highly Commended before and is our Showstopper Award winner for 2026. Jill Harrison is a central figure in their cricket teas while she is supported by others who put together something special.

Jill told me: “Home cooking and baking have been a must and I particularly feel everyone has made fabulous efforts so far.”

She added: “To accommodate all tastes, vegetarian and non veggie dishes were created and all home made including the use of my mobile pizza oven which goes down a real treat.”

There is mighty impressive consistency and excellence in what Barwick in Elmet offers and the presentation that goes with it. The cherry bakewell and banoffee cakes were a hit this season.

Players will grab the chocolate macaroon slices for post-match snacks and they were even given home-made iced lemon and ginger shots as a pep-up between innings.

Jill and the Barwick in Elmet tea-makers win a trophy and 1,500 Yorkshire Tea teabags.

Really well done to all of our winners and Highly Commended clubs. Cricket teas are an integral part of what makes the game special and it is clearly alive and well across Yorkshire.

Not shortlisted?

It’s the nature of this competition that only a few cricket clubs and tea-makers can get recognition, compared to how many took part.

The 2026 Cricket Yorkshire Teas of the Year had more entries than ever before and it really demonstrated the warmth and hospitality within the grassroots game.

I will share Facebook posts and stories over the rest of the season as a nod to those doing teas across Yorkshire – keep making, baking and brewing in clubhouses and pavilions!

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