Andrew Gallon savours midweek cricket from the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League at Crayke with hail, Super Over drama and a 9pm finish. Let’s face it, the cricket season is too short. If, as a spectator, you’re not keen on shivering through the April and September bits, there are
Cricketer Chris Metcalf shares his candid story about struggling with mental health and the unexpected power of a cricket bat sticker. Warning: This article contains references to self-harm and depression. Life changed dramatically for Chris Metcalf when he woke up suddenly in the middle of the night and, in
The Cricket Yorkshire Podcast is back - after it took a pause during the 2020 season! There will be interviews during the season, exclusives from Cricket Yorkshire and as much coverage as possible of recreational cricket. You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and many others! To kick things
Bill Marshall chats to Byron Boshoff of Wakefield Thornes about playing Premier League cricket in South Yorkshire. Any overseas batsman with serious pretensions sets themselves a four-figure target for the season when playing in English league cricket. 28-year-old South African Byron Boshoff is no exception. The former
Andrew Gallon braves the elements to watch Barwick-in-Elmet entertain Sicklinghall in the Leeds and Wetherby Cricket League. Until May 22 (fingers crossed), my choice of cricket venues is restricted to clubs playing on land with public access. It’s adding a new dimension to my weekly trawl of
The National Village Cup is back for 2021 and nearly 350 clubs have entered the 50th edition of this famous tournament. This year, the headline sponsor is Voneus who do rural broadband (an excellent fit with a village cricket competition if ever there was one). As you’d expect, there
The news that there is to be a one-hour pause in recreational cricket between 3pm and 4pm on Saturday 17 April (as a mark of respect during the funeral of HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh) was a surprise to me. The official line is that the ECB
Scarborough Cricket Club 1st XI captain Pat Roberts talked to Charlie Hopper about ambitions ahead of his first official season at North Marine Road, having joined in 2019. The former Barnard Castle wicket-keeper batsmen was left frustrated during the 2020 season with Scarborough fielding a team in the local
Recreational cricket has received a major boost as the 2021 outdoor season got the green light from the UK Government. From 29 March, organised team sports can be played again outdoors, which means club cricket should be able to start in April, assuming the ECB’s guidance is circulated in
Aden Biddle talks to Norton Woodseats about life as a cricket club who play in a public park. During the depths of winter in lockdown, it was possible to believe that summer would just never come. Rest assured it will and one sight that will be familiar is cricket being
With around six weeks to go until they hope to start the season, the Mewies Solicitors Craven League, which covers a large area from Bradford to East Lancashire, are facing an umpiring crisis. On Cricket Yorkshire, we’ll be looking at all aspect of recreational cricket, including how clubs and
Dave Edmundson shares his memories of the Yorkshire cricket clubs in the Ribblesdale Cricket League. The wooden door in the corner of the ground was flung open and our AWOL team member scurried across the top of the slope, half carrying and dragging his cricket bag past the bemused clutch
Cricket Yorkshire is delighted to partner Gentlemen and Players this year to offer cricket clubs a chance to step out in style - plus, there's an exclusive offer for this website! For many years, Gentlemen and Players has been the home of quality, traditional cap making. They specialise in:
A cricket club emblem is an integral part of its history and identity. Literally a badge of honour. But what does it say about that cricket club? I was doing some freelance work which involved interviewing Leeds & Broomfield Cricket Club in Kent recently. Their new logo is about a
181 Tests, 13,968 runs, 37 100’s and now 51 Test wins as Captain. Joe Root and Michael Vaughan’s combined England Test stats are certainly impressive to behold, especially when considering that both started their cricketing career at the same club - Sheffield Collegiate. Will Slater asks: Is this
During December, I’ll be celebrating the milestone of being 10 not out here on Cricket Yorkshire. It’s a chance to re-publish past articles you won’t have seen and reflect on some of the changes Yorkshire cricket has experienced over a decade. You can join in on
