We are pleased to announce that registration for our Yorkshire Boys’ Early Engagement and Regional Cricket Observation process for 2026/27 is now open! Each year, we see roughly 1500 boys from all over the county attend as a first step on their journey to become one of Yorkshire’s stars of the future! You can find out more information, including how to register your son, below.
The Regional and Early Engagement Programmes
Early Engagement forms the entry point into the Yorkshire CCC Pathway for players at Under 12 and below, in the years before County Age Group cricket begins. It is the highest standard of cricket within the County at these ages and is split into the Regions of North Yorkshire, East & Central Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. Players selected take part in a 12-week winter programme and 18-day summer programme.
Regional Cricket is for Under 13 – Under 15 cricketers, again split into the four Regions. Yorkshire is blessed with a large volume of promising cricketers, who we seek to further develop and identify for future honours through our Regional Cricket Programme. This programme sits directly below our Yorkshire County Age Group programme, which it feeds into. Its purpose is to develop players and also provide them with a platform to showcase their skills for selection for Yorkshire County Age Group. Those selected from our Observations will train together as part of a 10-week winter training programme, before embarking on a high-quality 12-day match-play programme within the season, with the opportunity to progress to County Age Group Cricket, dependent on performance.
The Observations
Observations are open to all who would like to attend and feel up to the required standard. Regional Cricket (U13-U15) Observations will last for two weeks. Early Engagement Observations (U12s and below) will take place over six weeks/sessions, to allow for increased opportunities to ID younger players, who may have less or varying experience in more typical high-performance environments. Players will not necessarily attend every week, with sessions arranged to accommodate numbers, but also to give enough sessions to thoroughly observe the required skills at each level. Early Engagement Observations, whilst typically for U10-U12 cricketers, will be open to boys in U9 and down, but this must be judged sensibly by those enrolling them, to make sure they would be up to the required standard. The exact dates of this year’s observations for each Region can be found on the registration link (below).
Observation Registration Link
To sign your son up for our Boys’ Observations (and to access more information), please complete the link below:
The deadline for registrations for the 2026/27 programme is Sunday 18th October 2026.
For more information around our Pathway programme, including how these programmes fit into the larger Pathway, please visit our Pathway webpage, here: https://yorkshireccc.com/club/pathway/
If you have any questions at all around any of the above, please contact Boys’ Pathway Operations Manager Jack Stockdale at [email protected].
