Craven Cricket League 2019 Champions Crossflatts are moving to the Bradford Premier League for 2021. It is a decision that piqued my curiosity as I've tracked the progress of Crossflatts (including their All Stars success) and even bowled a few overs at their place. The Bradford Cricket League&
The cricket ball is a ‘natural vector of disease’ - discuss. The Prime Minister’s recent response to a question about the return of recreational cricket has got everyone bemused, appalled or confused. By labelling a cricket ball in that way, he would seem to have quashed my prediction of a
Club cricket in England could return in July after recent promising developments. An ECB statement, dated 19 June, for counties and premier leagues read: 'The Secretary of State's message on Tuesday evening outlined plans for earmarking an early July date as being the earliest possible return for
Scarborough Cricket Club could well miss out on any county cricket in 2020. To fill that void, here's a magic shortlist of what not to miss when you visit.
Rupert Jones reflects on his time batting in the Central Yorkshire Cricket League; of cricket clubs now sadly no more and the might of Altofts Cricket Club. These are the 1981 league tables for the Central Yorkshire Cricket League, often referred to as the Heavy Woollen Cricket League. It was
Phil Sharples, Chairman of the Bramleys Halifax Junior Cricket League, discusses the ever-shifting sands that have come with trying to run a cricket league during coronavirus. Up for discussion was the current situation, planning ahead in a greatly shortened summer and the impact for junior cricket that the pandemic
Simon Barraclough, Secretary of Morley Cricket Club in the Bradford Premier League, offered his thoughts on what coronavirus has been like for his club and looks ahead. Give us a snapshot of what it's been like as a club official? What has Morley CC been doing? I'
The ECB has announced a further delay to the start of the domestic cricket season, with no domestic cricket to be played before 1 August. It equates to the loss of 10 rounds of the County Championship and group stages of the T20 Blast. (Editor's Note - 29th May
For one dad from Steeton, the experience of lockdown has unleashed creativity with a cricketing twist. In between working from home and home schooling, Daniel Kennedy has written a lockdown poem. The summer that never happened began life with the thought of a lonesome set of cricket stumps stood waiting
Given the ongoing impact of coronavirus, a cricket club might reasonably be asking: how to fundraise? After all, the usual relied-upon revenue, such as membership, teamwear and socials, isn’t flowing in. The good news is that help is at hand simply by doing something that all of us
Bradford Cricket League writer Reg Nelson explores the impact of missing a full cricket season on player performances and clubs' prospects across the leagues. As it’s getting increasingly likely that the local leagues in Yorkshire won’t start because of the dreaded coronavirus, there will be much conjecture
How can cricket clubs ride out the impact of coronavirus? It’s a question that seemingly has no answer. We don’t know when we’ll all be able to meet up, let alone start recreational sport back up again. So, as a cricket club that has seen its membership
The Halifax Cricket League recently got involved with Halifax SOS; a local fundraising initiative aimed at supporting grassroots sport in the region. Coronavirus has brought so much to a juddering halt and this was an example of community activism at its best. Snowflake Media, who put the ticketed online event
On the face of it, things look pretty bleak for club cricket. At the time of writing, we are still in lockdown and the recreational game is suspended indefinitely. No income, no games and the possibility of a full year without any cricket. Nonetheless, I wanted to find out how
Bradford Cricket League photographer Ray Spencer is one of the few cricket photographers I know who has a drone as well as a mighty collection of cameras and lenses. In this series of stunning photos, here's captured a bird's eye view of Yorkshire cricket clubs and
As a club cricketer, travelling away from home was always a delight for me, wherever I've played in the UK. In West Somerset, we would rocket around country lanes, with hedgetops converging like untamed eyebrows, en route to an idyllic cricket field that was hidden, unless you knew
