Ok, so you want to get organised. January is here so the 2016 cricket season is literally around the corner. Or so you tell yourself… What you need is a calendar with key cricket fixtures to get you excited and to smoothly orchestrate your summer. Monday 11 April Yorkshire vs
Ok, so the Christmas turkey has long since bitten the dust and January is here, heralding a land of opportunity. Have you thought about your 2016? What do you want it to look like? Any projects, ambitions or changes to life or are you the sort of person that contentedly
In the course of the last year, this website has amassed a rich and varied photography archive, taken out and about across Yorkshire with DSLR and smartphone. Only a fraction of these images have ever seen the light of day, either being shared as @cricketyorks on Twitter and our Facebook
The most memorable charity endeavour I've done may well have been the time I threw myself out a plane as a tandem skydive into a field in Kent some years past. There is nothing quite like travelling towards the ground at 120mph to encourage you to ponder the
Not so long ago, we asked you all for help with a survey to shape what the Cricket Yorkshire website covers in 2016 and what your preferences are. The survey is still open if you can spare a minute and congratulations to Ian Whittaker for winning our prize on offer,
Welcome! Don't be fooled into thinking this is any ordinary quiz. This may well be the best cricket quiz you've ever done. Oh yes. Loosen your brain muscles, limber up for some trivia fiendishness and over six awesome questions, prepare to be dazzled and amazed. Intriguing
Martin Eede reveals how a small village in East Yorkshire embarked on their first-ever international tour to Bulgaria. Yapham play against Bulgaria at cricket? It seemed improbable a year ago when my son, who had transferred to the British Embassy, got in touch. As it happens, the ambassador, a
Hey everyone. If you're on this page, you've deliberately clicked on a post about a cricket survey. Thanks and good for you. Ok, so surveys are not the most exciting piece of content on the web but they're invaluable and once a year, Cricket
A few weeks back in September, the final round of Central Yorkshire Cricket League Premier Division matches proved a welcome afternoon of cricket watching. As some of you will know, the Central Yorkshire Cricket League has voted to become part of the new Bradford Premier League with Yorkshire prepped for
The way amateur cricket in Yorkshire is structured has changed to provide a clear path to the summit for any club in Yorkshire. Where possible, bones of contention such as travelling times have also been chewed over to try to provide a sane solution. Here's what we know.
Steve Wales, Yorkshire Over 50s captain, reflects on representing Yorkshire, culminating in an outstanding 2015 season where the county won the ECB 50+ County Championship convincingly with a nine-wicket victory in the Final at Knibworth CC against Staffordshire. Three years ago, I was talking to Peter Graham in his
The Cricket Photo of the Year category of the Cricket Yorkshire Awards asked entrants to pick up to three of their best cricket photos for submission. Have a look through as we celebrate the range of photography of Yorkshire cricket, both professional and amateur. JEREMY LONSDALE (WINNER) 10 May 2015,
The votes are in, they’ve been independently checked by Doris from Doncaster and…ok, ok, I’ll behave. This is the first year of the Cricket Yorkshire Awards, launched in August to showcase and champion creativity and innovation across websites, writing, photography and social media in Yorkshire cricket. Thanks
Pudsey St Lawrence have claimed the JCT600 Bradford League title - the club’s first in twenty-four years - after they won at Cleakheaton by 66 runs. It is perhaps fitting that a squad, none of whom had ever won the Bradford League before, snapped up the Bradford League before it
Ok, so that's a rhetorical question....which will lead me ingeniously to the real, cunning motive behind this plea. You can do a lot in five minutes. Make a cuppa and raid the biscuit tin for good measure. Bowl an over (if the ball doesn’t get bunted
Picture this, if you will... Somewhere in a glitzy, Hollywood venue, sweaty Yorkshire batsmen, with grass stains covering their buttocks, pick mud from their spikes while waiting to hear if they've won summat. Umpires, sticklers for presentation, sit all present and correct, white coats ironed within an inch
