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CLOSED: Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year
*THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED** A cricket tea is one of the highlights of our great game and there are lots of cricket clubs across Yorkshire who put on a fine spread in between innings. Last year, Stainland won the Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year with an incredible feast, though it was so tough […]
Cricket Club Sponsorship: How to win new deals?
Cricket club sponsorship can be a win-win solution for both business and clubs or organisations but it invariably takes perseverance, an understanding of how sponsorship works and a willingness to be flexible. Here’s our ultimate guide to cricket club sponsorship below… Hopefully, it fires up the grey cells, inspires and motivates your cricket club in […]
Why Yorkshire Cricket affiliation makes sense
Club affiliation through league cricket Give or take, (whether they know it or not) 95% of cricket clubs do actually affiliate to the Yorkshire Cricket Board via the leagues as part of their annual league fees. A mention too for the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Derek Shuttleworth who is in his mid-eighties and has been their […]
Cricket at Bolton Abbey: what’s not to like?
Of the 750 or so clubs across Yorkshire, many boast a charm of their own due to geography, history and often as not, the people who live and breath the game. The point of this particular Saturday afternoon was to go along and hear from those at a progressive club in the Theakston Nidderdale League […]
Cricket clubs lose out through poor broadband
This being the age of social media, cricket clubs have the tools like never before to attract membership and keep everyone informed online as to how they’re doing. But there is a significant problem to this land of opportunity and that is a lack of any-speed, let alone superfast broadband across the UK. When was […]
How does club cricket combat geography?
As size of counties go, Yorkshire is vast. If Google is to be believed, it runs to 11,903 metres squared – and they have scanned everywhere with their StreetView project so they ought to know. A Yorkshire population of 5.3 million equates to that of Scotland and a land mass over half the size of […]
Meet the cricket pitch with artificial intelligence
When you picture a cricket pitch, what comes to mind? Is it an immaculate grass surface full of runs that does a bit for the bowler? How you answer might well depend on your particular skillset. As a league bowler of ever diminishing pace down the years, a green top that got the ball seaming […]
Yorkshire OSCAs: Reward your volunteers
Ok, let’s shatter a few myths early doors before we get to the good stuff. These are not the Oscars. There are no golden statuettes and painful speeches by tearful celebrities who feel the need to ramble incoherently for what feels like days. This is so much better than that. These are the OSCAs – […]
Yorkshire Vikings embark on T20 regional tour
The Yorkshire Vikings begin their domestic T20 preparation in earnest this week by taking on league opposition in Middlesbrough. The Vikings were due to play against a South Yorkshire Select XI at Sheffield Collegiate’s ground, Abbeydale Park, on Tuesday 5 May (**EDITOR’S NOTE: Sheffield was cancelled early due to weather conditions) before taking on […]