Even before my debut question to Matt Dwyer, Director of Participation & Growth at the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB), there is a surprise. He asks me what I think about the recreational game in Yorkshire. It’s pleasantly unusual. This from the ECB, the governing body who so
Embed from Getty Images One of the burning questions of the autumn has been resolved as Yorkshire County Cricket Club captain Andrew Gale announced his retirement to become the successor to Jason Gillespie as first-team coach. This bold move by the county sees continuity within the club with Gale
What must it be like to play cricket if you’re visually impaired? It was a thought preoccupying me on the walk up to the Indoor Cricket Centre at Yorkshire County Cricket Club to watch a taster session run by Yorkshire VICC. I’ve written about VI cricket before with
Embed from Getty Images Well, England drawing the two-Test series with Bangladesh was not in any script. Bangladesh have never beaten England in Test cricket until now (Zimbabwe and West Indies were their only victories in nearly a hundred Tests) so it’s a significant milestone in their history.
Embed from Getty Images The Test match in Chittagong that England edged by twenty two runs was acclaimed as an absolute humdinger. This was down-to-the-wire, chew-your-fingernails-ragged, watch-between-splayed-fingers sporting tension but how many followed it? It got me thinking about the shifting
Sicklinghall Cricket Club is reeling with shock after a fire, believed to have started before midnight last Saturday, has completely destroyed all of their buildings. Absolutely nothing is left. The clubhouse, scorebox and equipment shed along with memorabilia and machinery are all gone with North Yorkshire Police and Fire Services
The departure of the popular Australian coach Jason Gillespie has left a void at Yorkshire County Cricket Club after a very successful era at Headingley in which he masterminded successive County Championships. Natural talk of Dizzy’s successor is rife given it’s a plum job at a prestigious club
As if to prove that cricket is very much alive and kicking in this part of Yorkshire, as I got out of the car at Arthington Cricket Club last Sunday, a straight six thudded the ball into the grass behind me. It was a spectacular afternoon in this slice of
You just never know what surprises life will offer up like a juicy half volley outside off stump. It had been a rough fortnight combining poor health, helter-skelter travel around the UK and broadband blackout (don’t get me started on EE, they have been atrocious) when an email
Now the county cricket season is done and dusted, the light begins to draw in and we pine for November when the ECB usually releases the fixture list for 2017. After the Christmas turkey has been demolished, the prospect of cricket outdoors in March/April no longer feels it is
I need your help before you go into winter hibernation unless you’re the pockets of international Cricket Yorkshire readers from South Africa, India and Australia for whom winter means warmth and light past 3pm. Once the season is over, some cricket fans switch their attention to other sports, glue
The dust had barely settled on Somerset's crushing ten-wicket win over Yorkshire in the County Championship when the pinnacle of club cricket came to Headingley. Bradford League champions Pudsey St Lawrence faced Great Ayton, the highest-placed Yorkshire side from the North Yorkshire South Durham ECB Premier
Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s 13-man squad to face Middlesex at Lord’s in the most important game of their season has provoked howls of protest and got everyone talking. The stakes could not be higher. Win against Middlesex and a third successive County Championship is in the bag
Yesterday was quite the day. As the sun set on Somerset’s ten-wicket victory over Yorkshire ensuring the County Championship race remains tantalisingly open for now, news broke of plans for a city-based T20 tournament. Based on the England & Wales Board’s press release, we now know
David Barnes will be known to many in league cricket across West Yorkshire, and his story, told to me when we met at a cup final last month, is a cautionary tale worth heeding. After retiring from Southport Trinity Cricket Club in the South West Lancashire League, he began a
Cricket revels in its stats and likes a list almost as much as Mrs Cricket Yorkshire. Fastest T20 innings of the season when batting with shoelaces undone, percentage of reverse sweeps when on nought, slowest delivery of all time…. For a couple of years, I’ve meant to put together
