Here, Kevin Owens shares his thoughts on a cricket club where the youth policy starts at 40. The Forty Club’s motto is 'inspiring cricketers to enjoy a lifelong love of cricket'. Quite a statement indeed, but given the club played its first game in 1937 and is
Walking cricket. Not two words you’d necessarily put together. Yet, here I am at Bradford’s Karmand Community Centre to see why this new form of the game is proving so popular. Aimed at older adults, who are semi-retired or retired, but want to use cricket to stay
Owzthat cricket game is a simple dice adventure that lets you pick any team from any era. The best? By miles. Enjoy our review.
Since 2011, Cricketyorkshire.com has been promoting all forms of Yorkshire cricket from interviews with Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Adil Rashid to hundreds of club visits and talking with those that so impressively power the grassroots game. That's over a million words, thousands of photos and yes,
Bring on 2020. As a writer, Yorkshire cricket has endless possibilities for exploration. Looking back for a moment, what a year it’s been. The Cricket Yorkshire website has had more readers than ever before and the numbers following on social media continue to grow. That’s important for a
This is a remarkable Yorkshire cricket tale and one to celebrate. It’s incredibly rare that a cricket club comes back to life but, as Jack Stockdale reveals, there is always room for a surprise comeback. ** The story of Lockton Cricket Club is the story of so many local village
The Spencer Wilson Halifax Cricket League annual dinner and awards presentation evening ended up being quite the knees-up. A chance to meet some of the clubs I've visited over the last decade and celebrate individual and team achievements, this was billed as home of hill top and
As I write this, the November rain is peppering the windows of the Cricket Yorkshire office. A journey into town for supplies had meant I returned home resembling a deep-sea diver who’d just returned to the surface. It’s a funny time of year. There’s a smattering
In this extract from Last of the Summer Wickets, the Scarborough Cricket Festival dates come out - but book your B&B fast!
Aden Biddle offers his thoughts on some of the challenges facing players further down the leagues as well as clubs battling to continue. There a lingering conundrum facing some each season on whether merging with another club is the best route. Aden has played club cricket in Shropshire, Worcestershire, West
Michael Pulford is a retired Teacher of the Deaf and helping to coordinate a revival of the Yorkshire Deaf cricket team. Here, he gives a detailed insight into the Yorkshire club cricketers who are pushing their county credentials, as well as the coaches and mentors breathing new life into deaf
Sohail Raz is Community Development Officer (Leeds) at The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation (YCF) and one of his roles is to head up something called Core Cities Leeds. Core Cities is part of the ECB’s action plan to engage South Asian communities and it has identified 10 areas, including Bradford,
Bill Marshall talks to Woodlands' Secretary Brian Pearson about the momentum and trophies built in the Bradford Cricket League over the years. ** Since the Bradford League began in 1903, six clubs have had their periods of dominance. Great Horton were the first team to which the adjective great could
Through his charity side's exploits this summer in East Yorkshire, Dan Davis discovers cricket retains its appeal for all ages and can still win round a younger audience. ** September 2018. A thought pops into my 43-year-old brain. ‘I know, I’ll form a brand new cricket
As something a bit different for Cricket Yorkshire readers, now the regular club cricket season has drawn to a close, I thought I'd put together a few thoughts on The Hundred; the new 8-team, city-based professional tournament coming to England & Wales in 2020. Unless you&
The Cricket Yorkshire 50 is my annual shortlist of superstars selected from the recreational game in the county. The CY50 is in its fourth year and remains one of the most-read articles of any year for the website. This is for you - the players, coaches, administrators and officials out
