Recreational Cricket

The Yorkshire Cricket Board and the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation are pleased to announce their official merger, completed on 1st July 2025. This unification brings together the recreational heart of Yorkshire cricket with the community-driven power of the Foundation, forming one organisation dedicated to growing the game and its positive impact across every corner of the county.

Lead performance analyst Harrison Allen has described the standard of league cricket across Yorkshire as “pretty amazing” as the White Rose club continue to scour the county for talent.

As part of being awarded his British Empire Medal for Services to Cricket, Nasa Hussain - head groundskeeper and facilities manager at Bradford Park Avenue - will be invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party to celebrate his achievement. He has one wish.

Oughtibridge’s first-team captain Will Cooper - a former county junior - says survival in this summer’s YPL South Championship division would give the club a real platform for future progression.

The Yorkshire County Cricket Club will continue its innovative approach to talent identification in 2025 by launching a brand-new Under-23 programme.

Pickering Cricket Club head into 2025 full of confidence following two senior promotions last summer, even if the restructuring of the North Yorkshire Premier League pyramid means they effectively remain where they were.

‘Cricket Ground!!!!’ Come on, how many of us down the years have been on a long car journey on the motorway and exclaimed with excitement when a cricket ground comes into view? 

There will be a host of success stories when it comes to cricket in Bradford given the city’s love affair with our wonderful game. Although they missed out on winning this season’s title to New Farnley, Woodlands spring to mind given their recent dominance in the Bradford Premier League. Well, Bradford and District Visually Impaired Community Club certainly fall into the ‘success stories’ category.

The Yorkshire Cricket Board has launched a new fund to help support nomadic teams in Yorkshire.

You will have to go some way to find a club side in England, let alone Yorkshire, who have had a better summer than North Yorkshire’s Richmondshire Cricket Club.

There will be plenty of ground-hoppers across Yorkshire - lovers of our wonderful game keen to see a good game of cricket on a Saturday afternoon. If you’re one of those, you may consider getting down to Savile Park on August 31 to see Castleford take on Clifton Alliance in a top-of-the-table Yorkshire Premier League North clash.