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Snow stopped play: Photos from Yorkshire cricket

We do like to revel in our weather here in the UK, don't we? Snowmageddon has come to Yorkshire cricket. News of the 'Beast from the East' weather front sweeping in, as it had been cheerily coined, made it sound like an ominous character from Game

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ECB Small Grant Scheme: How cricket clubs can benefit

(Update June 2020: The ECB has reconfigured its funding for cricket clubs due to Covid-19 so visit their funding page to see the latest). As we welcome February, cricket nets will be underway and everyone is building towards the new cricket season. For cricket clubs, 2018 represents a fresh

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Don't miss these Yorkshire cricket matches in 2018

If you've clicked through and are reading this, maybe you are someone for whom adventure knows no limits; an intrepid explorer who thirsts for left-field Yorkshire cricket suggestions. Well, as it happens, you've come to the right place. This is not about Pakistan Test match

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Mark & Charlie’s Story: Opening Up Cricket

December 14th, 2012, is seared into the memory of Mark Boyns (left) who learnt his friend Alex Miller had taken his own life. Alex and Mark were close friends who played cricket together at Sefton Park Cricket Club in the Liverpool & District Cricket Competition. They also shared a common

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Following On: Like Father, like Son?

Following On: Like Father, like Son?

James Buttler's latest book, Following On - In the Footsteps of Cricketing Fathers, delves into the dynamic surrounding the father and son relationship in cricket. All of us, for whom county cricket is part of our DNA, can conjure paternal combinations who have played the game professionally. In Yorkshire,

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Jekyll and Hyde: Life as Nidderdale Cricket League Secretary

It comes to something when stalwarts as invested in recreational cricket as Graham Hyde decide to call it a day. We are less than a minute into a roving conversation about the health of Yorkshire club cricket and the outgoing Honorary Secretary of the Theakston Nidderdale Cricket League puffs out

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Retiring from club cricket: Hanging up the bowling boots

I’ll be honest. I never thought this day would come. The decision to fold up the whites for the final time and decommission the knackered, muddy cricket spikes was neither impulsive nor thrust upon me. Yet, after 31 years of playing cricket, it is the right moment to flick

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Leeds Caribbean: Life in the Dales Council Cricket League

Rocking up at Leeds Caribbean Cricket Club for their last Dales Council match of 2017 was an exercise in crossing digits and glancing anxiously at the lashing rain pinging off the bonnet of the car. This Division A contest at Scott Hall Road against Bradford Moor looked doomed from the

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Cricket Yorkshire 50

The Cricket Yorkshire 50 returns: Who's in? Who's out?

Ok, so last September I published the Cricket Yorkshire 50 - a shortlist designed to spark debate but mainly to give a nod to those from England cricketers to heros on the village green. It melted time and space and most of Yorkshire's power supply for a year was

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Black Sheep Final washout at Masham but hosts excel

There was a heart-stopping moment when our car breached the top of the hill before descending into the North Yorkshire market town of Masham where the expansive views are revealed and everyone gasped. It was akin to the unrolling of a treasure map before our eyes. The Nidderdale Area

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Heavy Woollen Cup Final delivers tradition and pies

On assignment for The Cricket Paper, this year’s Heavy Woollen Cup Final was a welcome return to Bradford Premier League leaders and 2017 hosts, Hanging Heaton. A trip back in April had involved ketchup-slathered chips, a talk to Townville’s West Indian overseas player Shkym Haynes and an

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Brook-Walton’s adventure ends after four years

Brook-Walton Cricket Club, who were formed in 2013 as an entirely new cricket club, are reluctantly calling it a day at the end of this season because of a lack of players. It was the vision of ex-Streethouse and Wrenthorpe cricketer Richard Vigars to start something from scratch

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