Pannal Cricket Club, of the York Senior Cricket League, has been on my wishlist for some time. I’ve scooted past on the train from Leeds to Knaresborough many times and one August afternoon, following a trip to Knaresborough Forest CC earlier in the day, I thought I’d give
Hallam Cricket Club play a lot of cricket. They are a bustling, South Yorkshire hotspot and I caught up with their Chairman Matthew Mawson to understand how their club ticks. They have five senior Saturday sides, a Sunday team, a Wednesday evening eleven in the Sheffield Midweek Alliance, a share
There is a magic to the multitude of roving cricket sides who bag informal games across the region where they can find opposition. I particularly savoured social cricket at Bolton Abbey with Hawks and Druids. Here, Bill Marshall explores a match to celebrate West Riding Cricket Club reaching a notable
A trip to Undercliffe Cricket Club to watch Woodlands try to clinch the Bradford Premier League title was to travel high above the city. Up, up past Bradford Cathedral, Carlton Bolling College to Intake Road, a cricketing heartland complete with white walls and a swirling wind. The game was reduced
John Heald is a brilliant cricket photographer whose work regularly appears on Cricket Yorkshire as well as our social media channels. Unusually, he covers the full spectrum from the epic Ashes Test at Headingley to grassroots league action such as Aire Wharfe cricket. I'll confess...part of the
A visit to Emerald Headingley to watch Yorkshire Diamonds face Loughborough Lightning in the Kia Super League delivered everything you could want - except a home victory. It began with a surreal walk up from the railway station to be gradually overtaken by an elongated golf buggy with 'Yorkies'
Cricket clubs, in Yorkshire and further afield, face many a challenge on any given day. Volunteers might sit on a mower for hours, spend their spare time baking cakes for teas or wading through a grant application. While the number of helpers, the amount of time things take and the
Each summer, writer and photographer Andrew Gallon explores the length and breadth of Yorkshire cricket and further afield. Having visited hundreds of clubs across the region over the years, he knows his Hanging Heaton from his Holmfirth and Townville from Tickhill. I asked Andrew to ponder the art of the
Ringwood Cricket Club all-rounder Tyson follows in the footsteps of Ringwood players (above) Matt King, Jackson Freeman, Tom Humphries and Jack Morrison in taking up the scholarship as overseas player at Great Preston. The GFS came about following an email exchange between then Great Preston first team captain Ian
This time, South Kirby is the focus, thanks to an article by Linda Dewhirst whose husband Paul was skipper of South Kirkby Colliery Cricket Club in the 90s who still play in the Pontefract Cricket League. The feature is a look back at the culture of a cricket club, observations
Sometimes the best cricket experiences are the ones that catch you by surprise. I went along to Airedale Cricket Club, outside Keighley, a month back ostensibly to just watch. It’s inevitable as a cricket writer that you look for stories everywhere. I can find it difficult to just take
This weekend produced an extraordinary Dales Council Cricket League match the likes of which you'll never have seen before. It poses so many questions. One team in Bradford hit over 500 in 45 overs. Yes, you did read that right. It's the first instance I'
It was with a sense of contentment the prospect of cricket frequently brings that I boarded the bus to Halifax from Bradford Interchange. Retracing a chapter from my first book All Wickets Great and Small, I was going back to Queensbury Cricket Club. The highest cricket club in the country,
How are cricket clubs doing so far this season in the 4 Probate & Wills Yorkshire South Premier League? Who's leading the batting and bowling averages? What have been the surprises? Who's challenging for the title and who's nervously eyeing a relegation scrap? Thanks
Looking out of the Cricket Yorkshire office window during Monday was to have that sinking suspicion that another cricketing extravaganza was to be ruined by the weather. Thankfully, the weather gods were smiling after all. The T20 fixture between the National Club T20 Champions Hanging Heaton and the Yorkshire Vikings
If you think about it, generations of families have sustained cricket clubs the length and breadth of the country for years. Every club I've been involved with during 30 years of playing club cricket has had a number of families at its heart. Thanks to journalist Bill Marshall
