We're in an unprecedented period at the moment with all cricket suspended due to coronavirus. At home and spending far more time than usual indoors, it's a chance to think creatively about how we connect with the game in different ways. If you're looking
The weekend of 18-19 April 2020 was meant to be the starting blocks for a glorious summer of club cricket. Due to the suspension of all recreational sport and coronavirus lockdown, cricket grounds across the country instead lie dormant and empty. I thought the work that groundsmen and cricket
The England & Wales Cricket Board's latest update about coronavirus, aimed at cricket clubs and leagues, outlined the latest thinking across a number of areas. Given Cricket Yorkshire's audience includes a great number of players, coaches, clubs and leagues, here's a summary for you:
Tony Hutton looks at the history of Lascelles Hall Cricket Club (on the Eastern outskirts of Huddersfield) and an enduring association with playing Yorkshire County Cricket Club down the years. The cricket club at Lascelles Hall, originally a very small village just outside Huddersfield, was founded in 1825 which makes
It's official, we have hit the pause button on grassroots cricket. The ECB has issued a statement on the recreational game in light of the developing COVID-19 situation. They are recommending that all forms of recreational cricket are for now suspended. This extends to training, pre-season
***COMPETITION HAS CLOSED*** For March 2020, Cricket Yorkshire has teamed up with Opening Up Cricket to bring you a brilliant competition prize. Does your cricket team or cricket club want to win a Club pack? We are offering five cricket clubs/teams a chance to win! It's a
Meeting up with Leeds Bradford MCCU Head Coach Andrew Lawson to hear about the 2020 season and future of the scheme proved enlightening - but briefly faltered at Leeds. The city has a shiny new rail station (tick), there are fewer trains constructed of bus parts in service (insert gag about
This Thursday 5 March at 7.45pm, I will be speaking at the Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society at Ardsley Oaks Club (outside Barnsley) - and you’re all invited! The focus of the Q&A with Wombwell’s Chairman James Greenfield will be my book on Scarborough Cricket Club, Last
Aden Biddle explores the routine of indoor cricket nets during winter and the many dimensions to encouraging all types of player, managing cost and getting the most out of practice. We’re into a new year and many of the county’s amateur cricketers are facing the same situation. The
Houghton Main, who play in the South Yorkshire Cricket League, are back at indoor nets and already hoping for another sensational National Village Cup run in 2020. The South Yorkshire outfit came through eight rounds in 2019 beating the likes of reigning champions Folkton and Flixton as well as Worcestershire’
Here, Kevin Owens shares his thoughts on a cricket club where the youth policy starts at 40. The Forty Club’s motto is 'inspiring cricketers to enjoy a lifelong love of cricket'. Quite a statement indeed, but given the club played its first game in 1937 and is
Walking cricket. Not two words you’d necessarily put together. Yet, here I am at Bradford’s Karmand Community Centre to see why this new form of the game is proving so popular. Aimed at older adults, who are semi-retired or retired, but want to use cricket to stay
Since 2011, Cricketyorkshire.com has been promoting all forms of Yorkshire cricket from interviews with Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Adil Rashid to hundreds of club visits and talking with those that so impressively power the grassroots game. That's over a million words, thousands of photos and yes,
Bring on 2020. As a writer, Yorkshire cricket has endless possibilities for exploration. Looking back for a moment, what a year it’s been. The Cricket Yorkshire website has had more readers than ever before and the numbers following on social media continue to grow. That’s important for a
This is a remarkable Yorkshire cricket tale and one to celebrate. It’s incredibly rare that a cricket club comes back to life but, as Jack Stockdale reveals, there is always room for a surprise comeback. ** The story of Lockton Cricket Club is the story of so many local village
