Recreational Cricket

‘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.

Schools’ cricket in Yorkshire is thriving. That is the view from two national champions from within the county, Scarborough College and St Peter’s School, York. 

Batley Cricket Club is one heck of an impressive place - a pillar of the local South Asian community, without a doubt. In fact, you could very well add in an extra C to make it Batley CCC - Batley Community Cricket Club. Listen to Saqib Talib talk and it would be very much warranted.

Former Yorkshire fast bowler, and one of the county’s current high performance pathway coaches, Jared Warner is preparing for his first season as captain of Methley.

If you take the train from Leeds to Manchester, you will no doubt have stopped at Mytholmroyd station, a small village in West Yorkshire until now most famous for the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.

A record number of women and girls are playing cricket across Yorkshire.

A Yorkshire-born club cricketer with Serbian parentage is preparing for what she describes as “a chance of a lifetime” having been invited to get involved in international cricket.