Green Hammerton Cricket Club hosted Thorner Mexborough CC in a Yorkshire Premier League North - Division Three Ebor match, watched by Mark Doherty. Looking Back Providing coverage of the various leagues around Yorkshire is a constant process of juggling requests to visit grounds with even coverage of the various leagues and
Harrogate Cricket Club's St George's Road HQ was the venue for this West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League Division One match against Menston. Mark Doherty reports on an impressive display with the ball from the hosts' Women's 1st XI before the rain
From 11 July 2025, Yorkshire Water imposed hosepipe restrictions - but what does that mean for cricket clubs? The focus is on household water consumption (so no hosepipes or sprinklers in the garden). Here, we explain what cricket clubs can do and also interview South Milford Cricket Club who came up
Hunkered down beneath the Dark Peak’s Wessenden Moor, cradled within a near-circle of a Holme Valley tributary’s gritstone hills, Meltham must count amongst Yorkshire’s most attractively sited small towns. A Thursday evening Huddersfield Premier League T20 Shield Knockout quarter-final, against local and Championship division rivals
The Village Cricket bat is helping club cricketers across Yorkshire (and other counties 😁) blaze a trail this summer. We have partnered with Village Cricket Co for a number of years now and in this article, we’ll look at what makes their affordable cricket bat such a popular choice with
It is ‘Super Sunday’ this weekend – July 6 – for four of Yorkshire’s teams taking part in the climactic stages of blue riband national knockout club competitions. The men’s sides of York (ECB National Club Championship) and Thornton (National Village Cup), and their women’s counterparts from Sessay Emeralds
Always keen to increase my ‘grounds visited’ total, I leapt at the chance to watch two matches – at different venues – on the same day. The Yorkshire Premier League North’s 2025 Hundred first round provided an opportunity, on a Sunday, to take in Premier League Two Bridlington hosting Championship East
Clifton Park hosted Clifton Alliance CC Women v Driffield Town Women in a Yorkshire Premier League North clash on Sunday 29 June 2025, with the sound of County Championship action between Yorkshire and Essex just over the fence – the perfect backdrop for another cricketing tale from Mark Doherty. 🍻 Beer, sun
Muff Field Cricket Club's entrance has a number of blokes assembling a bench while a big black dog excitedly jumps up at the fence that separates us. (Mrs Cricket Yorkshire reckons I’m a dog whisperer and so it proves over the next few hours, becoming best friends
With the 2025 season at or approaching its halfway mark, the leaders of Yorkshire’s five ECB Premier Divisions are Castleford, New Farnley, Rastrick, Richmondshire, and Wakefield Thornes. Ten rounds into the Huddersfield Premier League’s first season with ECB Premier League status, Rastrick have a two-point lead over
British Recycled Plastic is a Mytholmroyd success story whose ethos is all about transforming ‘Waste to Wonderful’. In this interview with their Managing Director Jason Elliott, we’ll look at the benefits, both environmental and practical, for sports clubs and their volunteers. Their products range from picnic tables to seats
For the second time in five days, I found myself watching cricket on the fringes of the rippling Wolds, surely Yorkshire’s most underrated landscape. A quarter-final of the Yorkshire Premier League North’s Dave Conner Memorial Trophy, between teams placed second and first in Division Two Holderness, held
Apparently all good things come to those who wait. Fortunate really as this interview with Matthew Jenkins, Chair of Kirk Hammerton Cricket Club, was done when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and I’ve been sitting on it like a skinny chicken. The premise is simple enough. Club in crisis
Knaresborough Forest CC was the setting for Mark Doherty as the Willows hosted Thorp Arch and Boston Spa Women in a West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League's Leeds East Division One game that promised drama before the rain had its say. In the early hours of Tuesday
I stepped off the train at Burley-in-Wharfedale’s station to persistent Sunday rain. Fortunately, the drizzle cleared on the walk to Hodson Park for this Heavy Woollen Cup first round match. The less said the better about the grim forecast predicted but not for the first time, I
The Chance to Compete Yorkshire Finals saw U13 & U15 state schools compete at Ampleforth College in a two-day event, supported by Yorkshire Tea.
