This is the first time I've written for Cricket Yorkshire, and all of sudden, I'm overcome with the urge to be honest... Maybe it's pressure? Maybe it's guilt? Here goes, my confession is... I'm not good at cricket and neither
The Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB) have held their annual awards ceremony to recognise the outstanding contributions across Yorkshire recreational cricket. Reflecting the growing appreciation for volunteers and interest in the Outstanding Services to Cricket Awards (OSCAs), this year's event moved from Stumps restaurant to Headingley Carnegie pavilion. With
Of the 750 or so clubs across Yorkshire, many boast a charm of their own due to geography, history and often as not, the people who live and breath the game. The point of this particular Saturday afternoon was to go along and hear from those at a progressive club
The 576 Halifax bus from Bradford wheezed and strained its way up Great Horton Road, up, up and away, further into the clouds until reaching the village of Queensbury. Deposited opposite Oxford Road, the last bit on foot takes the intrepid traveller up a quiet country lane to the highest
Leeds Bradford MCCU got their hands on some silverware at the third time of asking in an eventful season with a convincing victory over Cardiff at Lords. The squad lost out in two semi-finals in June in other formats but this 117-run triumph at the home of cricket
As size of counties go, Yorkshire is vast. If Google is to be believed, it runs to 11,903 metres squared - and they have scanned everywhere with their StreetView project so they ought to know. A Yorkshire population of 5.3 million equates to that of Scotland and a land
After being given a 'bye' because their morning opponents Newcastle University had been unable to field a team, Leeds Bradford MCCU took on Durham MCCU at Weetwood in the afternoon sunshine for a place at the MCC / Red Bull T20 Finals Day on Monday 15th June. The winners
Do you remember that weirdly warm few weeks in April when summer briefly gatecrashed spring and the mercury soared? During that balmy period, there was the chance to go and watch a cricket match at Bradford Park Avenue where two teams from the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League, Interlink and
After a stint covering the action at Ilkley Cricket Club on Saturday, the proximity of more cricket was too tempting to pass up so it was on to Olicanian Cricket Club whose firsts were at home and taking on Calverley St Wilifrid's CC. From Ilkley's ground,
It was a productive Saturday of club cricket with the sun out although a fierce wind that could strip the warmth from bone marrow in seconds made it a three-jumper strategy out on the cricket fields around Ilkley. Cricket Yorkshire was there, alternating between a barrage of images with
At the start of England's visit to the Windies, after all the talk of KP and the relative merits of West Indies' strength, there was some actual live cricket online action to comment on. Going back a couple of weeks, it piqued the interest that the opening
Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara is here. Well, not here in the Cricket Office office, that really would be a scoop. No, he's arrived at Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Friday morning saw the sun shine at Headingley and he was into the nets to shake off the jetlag. As
As it happens, the early part of April, in Yorkshire at least, has been unseasonably and almost freakishly warm and sunny. Too much more of this and we're likely to get a bit stir crazy. It's meant to be cold in April in Yorkshire. The early
My life would now be dramatically different, had I not began life as a cricket coach in a royal London Park, supervising 5-9 year olds as a university summer job. I might never have met my wife (the ultimate inspiration for Cricket Yorkshire), whose cousin I first befriended whilst
It’s at this time of year when winter has got her fingers wrapped around us that cricket has never felt further away. Foggy breath and a pickaxe to de-ice the car in the morning while your cricket bag is gathering dust wherever you put it since that last
It takes a particular brand of moron to repeatedly vandalise a cricket club, over and over, mindlessly seeking to destroy the hard work put in by volunteers and the local community. In the case of Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club (KECC), based on Queenswood Drive in Headingley on the outskirts of
