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How to turbocharge your cricket training at home

If you’re looking for some ideas for cricket training, you’ve come to the right place. It might be you want to treat yourself and upgrade your cricket set-up at home. Alternatively, there could be a birthday coming up and you could do with some outdoors inspiration. Here,

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Cricket Games: Battrick - Hours of fun agonising over tactics

It's Battrick deadline time. The clock ticks down. But not nearly fast enough for my liking. This is the world of free, addictive cricket games. The pressure of managing a club cricket team. Five minutes. Two minutes. Refresh the page for the umpteenth time and check the transfer

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Steve Patterson Yorkshire CCC

Yorkshire CCC Yearbook: White Rose on every page

Cricket is coming. After the long hiatus that followed the end of the 2018 county cricket season, it's not long before Yorkshire County Cricket Club begin at Weetwood against Leeds Bradford MCCU. For those of us who pine for the return of domestic cricket, there are staging posts

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B3 Cricket Bat DB2

How to pick the best cricket bat for your game?

For many of you cricketers, February signals a changing in the seasons just as surely as entering a different time zone: back to nets (BTN). Preparation for this ritual will depend on whether you spend winter oiling your cricket bat with affection or open your cricket bag, after months of

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How to upgrade your cricket bat

Picture the scene. It’s Saturday morning and the prospect of cricket puts a spring in your step. Your fixture at Upper Cragdale 3rd XI is looming and you gingerly prize open your dormant kitbag that reveals muddy, stale whites, several entirely new forms of bacteria and other treasures. Sound

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The ultimate winter shortlist for cricket fans

Now the county cricket season is done and dusted, the light begins to draw in and we pine for November when the ECB usually releases the fixture list for 2017. After the Christmas turkey has been demolished, the prospect of cricket outdoors in March/April no longer feels it is

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Jack Brooks

Going to nets with Yorkshire CCC

This year's Yorkshire County Cricket Club Media Day was held on a glorious, warm morning with the birds chirping away in the hedgerows during the walk up from Burley Park station. It was a chance to catch up with colleagues from the media, talk to the county staff

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BBL05

Your Big Bash League Guide: Yorkshire is coming

While the UK shudders from the meteorological armegeddon that saw Carlisle Cricket Club pavilion almost entirely submerged…on the other side of the world, a sun-kissed, cricketing carnival is about to launch: the Big Bash League. The fifth edition of Australia’s domestic Twenty20 competition or #BBL05 to grope

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Cricket Monopoly

The ultimate Christmas gift shortlist for cricket fans

Ok everyone, December is here so talk of Christmas no longer feels premature. Even though the supermarkets have been flogging mince pies since the end of the county season. Are you the type to leave Christmas shopping until the last minute then get on Amazon and click round in a

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Cricket clubs lose out through poor broadband

This being the age of social media, cricket clubs have the tools like never before to attract membership and keep everyone informed online as to how they’re doing. But there is a significant problem to this land of opportunity and that is a lack of any-speed, let alone

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Chris Waters on Verity's 10 for 10

Yorkshire Post cricket correspondent Chris Waters has turned his meticulous research and love of the game towards a remarkable county bowling feat in his latest book. On 12 July, 1932 at Headingley, Yorkshire slow left-armer Hedley Verity took 10 for 10 against Nottinghamshire as the visitors were rushed out

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