Whatever standard you play at, you can get the best out of indoor cricket nets. The weird environment of stark lighting, sports hall terrain and matting for a pitch is a significant ritual, normally over several months, designed to ease out the kinks, oil the technique and grow confidence. If you’re of a mind to […]
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Courtney Hill: Inspiring girls to play cricket
Leeds Rhinos’ scrum-half Courtney Hill is at home discussing the exciting talent pool of women and girls playing cricket in Yorkshire. With rugby league currently in stasis due to Covid-19, I’m giving her a call about the coaching she’s been doing with the Yorkshire Cricket Board over a couple of years. If you don’t know […]
Here’s to the next generation of Junior Crickets
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 safeguarding pint-sized minions as they rocketed […]