Yorkshire Tea backs cricket teas and new grassroots awards

Yorkshire Tea has extended its partnership with Cricket Yorkshire for 2025. The competition to champion the best cricket teas in Yorkshire is back for a fourth year.

It has an ever-so-slight name change to reflect the importance we’ve always placed on everyone’s contributions. There is no overall winner – but plenty of chances to win recognition for your club including a trophy and lots of Yorkshire Tea.

Cricket Yorkshire Teas of the Year will have new categories (to be revealed soon) and celebrate those incredible volunteers who make, bake and brew in club cricket.

Past winners include: Ripon Cricket Club (2022), Stainland (2023) and Pannal (2024).

Clubs who have been Highly Commended include: Hartshead Moor, Duncombe Park, Bradshaw, Copley, Muff Field, Ilkley, Barwick-in-Elmet and Sandal.

New Monthly Awards

In addition, Yorkshire Tea are backing new monthly cricket awards to showcase the remarkable contributions and stories from grassroots cricket in Yorkshire.

It’s about amazing acts of generosity, kindness and impact. When they launch, anyone can enter each month in Yorkshire, there are no categories.

Instead, volunteers who support the recreational game in any way can be nominated to win for that particular month. We will interview them on cricketyorkshire.com and they will win a trophy and a year’s supply of tea.

The awards aren’t limited to club cricket and could be a coach, groundskeeper, fundraiser, scorer or any person in your community who has made a difference.

This is a hugely exciting partnership that continues Yorkshire Tea’s long-time support of the grassroots game over decades.

To learn more about Yorkshire Tea, visit yorkshiretea.co.uk or check out their Yorkshire Tea Facebook page.

We’ll have more news coming up on both the cricket teas and the monthly awards. In the meantime, here is the Yorkshire Teapot on our website, full to the brim with tales of creativity, generosity and proper brews.