If you think about it, generations of families have sustained cricket clubs the length and breadth of the country for years. Every club I've been involved with during 30 years of playing club cricket has had a number of families at its heart. Thanks to journalist Bill Marshall
Recreational cricket across Yorkshire changes at quite a pace. While there are new formats and ways to access the game, there are many leagues that have bitten the dust down the years too. John Phillips rummages through the county archives to learn about the Felixkirk and District League after the
An afternoon of exploring Yorkshire cricket grounds I'd never been to before began with a trip to Silsden Cricket Club who are aiming to rebuild after switching from the Aire-Wharfe Cricket League to the Craven Cricket League. We tipped up just as the home side were warming
Martin Wildsmith of Tong Park Esholt Cricket Club looks at the costs to cricket clubs to run the game and the challenges that come with that.
I’m delighted that my Scarborough Cricket Festival book called Last of the Summer Wickets is available in paperback, published by Great Northern Books. The Scarborough Cricket Festival has made for a compelling subject. We are firmly in an age where T20 dominates the cricket agenda and yet there is
Low Moor Holy Trinity Cricket Club is in the midst of a hugely exciting chapter in its history - and one that offers a path for clubs in a similar situation. The Halifax Cricket League club was struggling in one of the hotspots across Yorkshire where cricket clubs are in close
Cricket Yorkshire continues to welcome a raft of new writers (see Write for Cricket Yorkshire, if you're interested) and Tony Hutton is the latest contributor with his incredible knowledge of Yorkshire club cricket. I've been fortunate to know Tony for quite a few years and we
Author David Mitchell conjures up an adapted chapter from his new cricket book, From Snicket to Wicket. Here, David reminisces of his childhood at Settle Cricket Club and the spectacle of the annual match against Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Cricket has been in my blood since Grandad took me to
Throughout West Yorkshire, you are never far from a game of club cricket. Halifax, Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford are all teeming with clubs but that's really just the start. So, Saturday came and an experiment of sorts...to see what was out there on the doorstep (within
The blackboard at the entrance to Todmorden Cricket Club hints at the traditional heartland beyond and to one of the finest cricket grounds in Yorkshire. Their emblem of both red and white roses adorn each corner; for the record, 'Tod' (as locals affectionately, or with a sense of
Something a bit different for this episode of the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast as I headed off by train and on foot to explore two grounds I'd not been to before. The cricket podcast is recorded out and about so get ready for birds chirping, cricketers chirping and it
In my last two visits to the net facilities at Bradford Park Avenue cricket ground, I've seen Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali, David Willey, Sarfraz Ahmed and Adil Rashid. While I don't expect to witness that lot lashing cover drives and bowling fizzing legbreaks in
As my fingers clatter over the keyboard to bring you this article, it is raining outside. Not chucking, tipping or siling it down but appropriate enough as this feature is all about a cricket club battered by floods, stripped to the bone but now back on its feet. Let’s
Among the many definitions, the word ‘settle’ is to resolve something, come to rest or make a home and having now visited Settle Cricket Club, all three seem as if they fit snugly in this North Yorkshire town. It’s not a quick journey from Cricket Yorkshire HQ and we
Around half an hour to the west of Bradford lies the Worth Valley village of Haworth, a vibrant West Yorkshire hotspot. Asher Nutting reflects on its unique location. Tourists exercise their legs and make the steep climb up to Haworth, whether for steampunk or 1940s weekends, the famous heritage railway
The allure of Triangle Cricket Club can be reached by winding your way down a hill that puts you the summit of a rollercoaster; before plunging over, down, left and right through the village to the aptly named Grassy Bottom. Parking requires creative thinking and as we did a seven-
