Asher Nutting reflects on coaching under-nines cricket with the rewards, stresses and lessons. Like many clubs, at Bingley Congs, there’s been an absence to our junior section over the last few years. Without the most important part of a cricket club, in the long run, a club can
For several years, I put together, on behalf of a Skipton-based publisher, the editorial side of an annual (bi-annual, initially) visitor guide to Yorkshire. It meant spending a lot of time in the Dales (well, somebody had to do it). Quickest access to Wensleydale, for me, was via
We'd done a Saturday walk to Saltaire - no cricket at my old place of Shipley Providence - they're down to one team and the square was cordoned off. A shame to see that empty on a summer's day - an opportunity for the host club to
I first met Andrew Watson, the former Managing Director of the Yorkshire Cricket Board, at Headingley to talk about Cricket Yorkshire. He fizzed with ideas, had a myriad of names at his fingertips then sealed a lifetime friendship by buying me fish and chips at Stumps Restaurant. We catch up
There is a lot to like about Whitby. Maybe too much! The town hit the headlines recently when, in a local referendum, residents voted in favour of measures aimed at cutting the number of homes used for holiday accommodation. About 28 per cent of properties in Whitby are second homes.
Visiting Beckwithshaw Cricket Club has been on my radar for years. Those of us who hop around cricket club grounds tend to rub shoulders and recommendations get passed on. On a scorching Saturday, it was time to put that right with their Second Eleven at home to Bolton Villas in
A trip to Luddenden Foot for the Halifax Cricket's League Parish Cup was an eventful one. The drive takes you up into the clouds of the Upper Calder Valley, along narrow stretches until you plop out on Sowerby Lane. We parked up just as a tractor wanted to
For which club did Dickie Bird OBE, Sir Geoffrey Boycott and Sir Michael Parkinson play? Surely, everybody – even me – knows the answer. Barnsley Cricket Club. After visiting Shaw Lane Sports Club, to watch a Viking Cup quarter-final against York, I know quite a bit more about the Barnsley club.
June 21: the summer solstice, midsummer’s eve, not a hint of rain. What to do? Stonehenge is a long drive, I cannot count any Druids amongst my circle of acquaintance, blood sacrifices are terribly messy (and likely to be illegal), and I am probably rather too near 60 for
Super 1s cricket is a disability cricket programme, funded by the Lord’s Taverners, with hubs in towns and cities offering free coaching and activities. Over an absorbing hour on Zoom with the organisers of the Dewsbury Super 1s Hub, I get an insight into the work that’s done,
Ackworth Cricket Club fly the flag for Yorkshire in the last 16 of the Voneus National Village Cup, the September 18 final which will be played at Lord’s. New to the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League for the 2022 season, Ackworth travel on Sunday (July 3) to Rainford, a
A 20-year-old club cricketer, Finlay Bean, who plays for York Cricket Club has won a rookie contract with Yorkshire County Cricket Club, after his 441 against Nottinghamshire Seconds at Lady Bay. He has committed his future to the White Rose in a deal that keeps him at Headingley
Despite it saying ‘Keighley’ on my birth certificate, I have only a tenuous connection with the town. My folks, from Sheffield, relocated to Keighley in the early Sixties when Dad was offered a post in its NatWest branch. The babes-in-arms Gallons (I have a twin sister) came along
Heading into the second half of 2022, the standings in Yorkshire’s club cricket leagues are starting to indicate who the season’s winners and losers might be. Let’s start at the top of the pyramid, with the four ECB Premier League, Premier Divisions. In the Bradford Premier League,
After a Saturday drive up to County Durham, to watch a game in the North East Premier Cricket League First Division, at the splendid Philadelphia Cricket Club, overlooked by the Penshaw Monument, I fancied something closer to home the following afternoon. Forecasters indicating a continuation of the summer’s indifferent
Having dangerously waved goodbye to Mrs Cricket Yorkshire outside Magnet Kitchens, I walked down to Crossflatts Cricket Club where their Ladies 1st XI were at home to Bradford Park Avenue Ladies. A drab, cool forecast proved to be some way off the mark as the sun came out and a
