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 […]
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Cricket Shoes: The Ultimate Guide
If you are looking for independent and well researched advice on buying cricket shoes then welcome to the party. Sit back and let Cricket Yorkshire guide you through the perils and pitfalls of everything from toe guards to the fevered debate that is cushioning. Trainer or boot? There is no satisfying, off-the-shelf answer to this […]
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 […]
