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Grassroots cricket website with articles, stories and interviews from Yorkshire. #clubcricket #CricketTwitter . Run by John Fuller.

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Cricket Yorkshire
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NEW: Women's softball league from @KboroForestCC as @richmondshirecc claim the win. Report and photos from @caughtlight : 🏏 @Yorkshirecb @RobJohnsonYCB
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Cricket at Burton Salmon in October. 👍
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Been alerted to this performance by 13 year old Patrick Walker who took his first 5 wicket haul in senior cricket with figures of 7 for 10, all bowled on Saturday for @HollinsendMCC . 👍
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"Playing at Cloughton today.... don't have lunch..." 🏆 Nominate a Yorkshire club for our teas competition before the end of June.
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On club cricket, can't help but feel that it wasn't smart to grandly announce we could all play cricket from this Saturday but still not yet get the advice to facilitate that.
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Fine effort to end the county season with an away victory and clinch 4th, given relegation worries. Will miss the Herculean efforts of @BrooksyFerret . An outstanding servant with bat and ball for Yorkshire. #yccc
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Nudge for cricket clubs. Seen there will be a World Cup Small Grants Scheme with £1,000 grants made available for 3,000 recreational cricket clubs via the ECB. Keep an eye out for info from county boards (and good luck!)
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I'm really pleased to say that my book on the Scarborough Cricket Festival - Last of the Summer Wickets - is OUT! Full details are here: #summerwickets
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Congratulations to @ShbccCricket , that game was a fitting end to Premier League cricket in 2019. Must be satisfying to lift the trophy... 👇
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This was one of the best scenes of the day. All county grounds should allow this. Stacks of mini games broke out. Inspires kids (and adults)
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This is a cricket tea from Cloughton Cricket Club. 😮
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS! Dust off your pads. Stick your whites in the wash. Unfold that umpire's coat. Recreational cricket has got the green light to re-start next weekend. ECB will now publish its guidelines. It's happening.
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Ouch. Sanctions by Bradford Premier League against Farsley for forfeiting Priestley Cup Final. Fair? 🏏Club excluded for 4 years from BPL Cup/Shield 🏏 £2,000 fine 🏏 Can't host a cup final for 10 years 🏏 Letter of apology to be published within a week
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@ScarboroCricket Festival would have begun today. A season highlight for many. Here's a few photos and a book extract to bring Scarborough to you:
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Been on a wintry walk and discovered evidence that our early ancestors played cricket.
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NEW: Charlie Roebuck offers his candid story about depression and how cricket can be a vehicle for changing perceptions: #notweaktospeak
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6 years
Those who have shoehorned the County Championship into bookended blocks when the weather is typically at its most unsettled have much to answer for.
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WINNERS: Congratulations to @stainland_cc who are Winners of the Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year 2023! 🏆 @pannalcc and @DuncombeParkCC are Highly Commended. 🫖 All three win lots of @YorkshireTea to stock them up with brews galore.
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Postponement of Wakefield Thornes' next game due to a player testing positive for Covid-19 is a reminder, as if any were needed, of the situation at present. Best wishes to the player.
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🫖 TEAS: Congratulations to @RiponCricket who have won the Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year, sponsored by @YorkshireTea . Have a read below. Incredibly high standard of entries and thanks to everyone who took part. Let's do this again in 2023! 🍰
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A mention for @bridgeholme and groundsman Keith Hudson who have their first game of cricket since 2019 due to flooding. Here's my visit from that season. Pic on the right is how it looks now. 👌
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INTERVIEW: @nmartyn25 talks about life in @AWSCL with @leedsmodscc :
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CRICKET YORKSHIRE 50: It's back! The shortlist compiled every year celebrating those who contribute to the recreational game here in Yorkshire. Who do you know that's in? #CY50
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Greatest sports event in the world starts tomorrow: @ScarboroCricket Festival at NMR. Who's going? Will be visiting on Monday. #scarbados
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4 years
Very sad to hear about Dan Woods. A lovely bloke I interviewed a number of times. Generous with his time, astute reading of the game and a hugely talented cricketer.
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NEW: @NewFarnleyCC show potential for club cricket by live screaming all their games to YouTube:
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🏆Congratulations to @alawson100 and the @Leedsmccu squad on being crowned MCCU Champions for 2019. Top effort.
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Shocked and saddened that the county season will begin here without Cally. He was such a kind man, incredibly popular as all the tributes are showing and an assured voice juggling his myriad of regional reports or MC'ing events. Very fortunate indeed to have known him.
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Understandable outrage at what happened with New Farnley. Follows similar incidents around Yorkshire such as Sicklinghall, Olicanians and others over the years. Difficult to compute. Wish them well as they bounce back.
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3 years
Would be a positive move to see ECB guidance published in the next week, giving clubs/teams about a fortnight before they're theoretically able to play outdoors.
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PARISH CUP: Two quality sides in @IllingworthCC and @ThorntonCC and a fitting showpiece at @CopleyCC . Below, Thornton's Grant Soames walks off after his 105. Gary Fellows was to offer his own batting masterclass later. Thoughts and match photos here:
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IT’S OUT! The #CY50 is back - who’s in? Congratulations to everyone featured and their clubs, leagues, projects and performances. Have a read here, pls share and tag someone who’s in:
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Ahead of @Yorkshireccc at @ScarboroCricket , here's a few of a certain @GeoffreyBoycott . Credit: EastCoast Exile #yccc http://t.co/KJiXbhXVRE
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Congratulations @FandFCC on reaching the final of the @TheCricketerMag #NVC18 at Lord's.
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England availability....Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Adil Rashid all unavailable for county duty. Ominously, Moeen Ali can play for Worcestershire in the final game vs Yorkshire.
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So pleased to see @ScarboroCricket packed for the Festival. As popular as ever. Thanks to the club for their hospitality.
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Disappointed to see that @BrooksyFerret is leaving Yorkshire. Instrumental in two County Championships. The Headband will be fondly remembered. #yccc
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Yorkshire's smallest cricket league? Alastair Wilkinson on the Feversham League with its low scores, farmers' fields and glorious locations:
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8 years
@FredBoycott Spotted in Sowerby Bridge....more batting education needed.
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5 years
Looks a picture here at Weetwood. Roll on Sunday...
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Believe Play-Cricket was playing up again for clubs today? Significant problem affecting thousands of clubs and oodles of fixtures. Time to go old-school for a bit?
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Cricket Yorkshire
2 years
Gripped by this Test series in Pakistan. Brook facing Nauman, both having played in the Bradford League for Bradford & Bingley which is engulfed in mist this morning.
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Cricket Yorkshire
5 years
Appreciate it's a tough subject but thanks for the RTs and reads about @WathCricketClub wicketkeeper-batsman Haris. Cricket can make a difference:
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💎Shoutout for all involved with @YorksDiamonds who play their last ever KSL match down at Taunton tonight. Go well against Western Storm...
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Sad to hear of the passing of YCB's Lawrence Walker. A wonderful bloke who I had the pleasure of interviewing last year.
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Glorious here at @ScarboroCricket . We were the first customers in the Tea Room. Felt like the head of the queue for an Apple store launch. Warm welcome. 😎
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Looking positive for an April start of club cricket, if media reports of organised outdoor sport to be permitted from 29 March are accurate. All eyes on the 5pm announcement. Wonder if vectors of disease get a mention?
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6 years
Adil Rashid's decision to play white-ball only for Yorkshire is a great shame. It's a contractual evolution of what's already happening with county cricket availability. Glass-half-full, this is an opportunity for the likes of Rafiq and Carver to show their class. #yccc
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Cricket Yorkshire
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Sad to see two of the top six-ranked Test cricketers banned for a year but time to move on and not kick them while they're down. On a positive note, the other three are all at @YorkshireCCC in 2018 in Root, Pujara, Williamson!
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2 years
I watched Finlay Bean make his 1st XI debut for @York_C_C some years back. He has progressed since. Currently 327 not out for Yorkshire 2nd XI vs Notts at Lady Bay. What a knock. 😳
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Thanks to Shane Jarvis for this photo of Crakehall, note the distance to the boundary fielder by the tree!
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Games being conceded by Premier League clubs as well as lower down the leagues. Farsley forfeiting the showpiece Bradford League cup final is worrying.
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INTERVIEW: Grace Hall shares her journey from cricket at school to playing for Osbaldwick men's side at 12, coaching Clifton Park Cobras and making the Northern Diamonds squad for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Final. 📸 @JohnHealdPhotog
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Gillespie confirmed as candidate for England coach. RT - if you want him hired. Favourite this tweet if not. #YCCC http://t.co/m7WzPLI49i
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DISABILITY CRICKET: Owen Jervis shares the ambition and mindset for Yorkshire's disability sides with county games coming up:
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Congratulations to @AdilRashid03 who has been awarded a Benefit Year by @YorkshireCCC for 2018. Quite the journey since signing scholarship terms in 2004. #yccc
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Yorkshire 2 Lancashire 0 today. Credit to umpires for staying out there. Amazing fielding in the rain. Bresnan was on another planet. #yccc
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4 years
A photographic snapshot of @ScarboroCricket for those missing it today particularly. We'll all back there.
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🔥🔥Tom Kohler-Cadmore is seriously carving it up this season at the top of Yorkshire's batting in white-ball cricket. Must be pushing hard for County Championship consideration when it resumes in December. 😂 📸 @rayspencer182
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WINTER TOUR: Read about Appletreewick vs Malhamdale, cricket outdoors on 7 January and other games in 2018: #YorkshireDales
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Thinking of all those who've made cricket teas today with games being called off. 📷 Last few weeks before our teas competition closes so take some photos this weekend if you can. Good luck! This is @Farsley_cc 👏
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INTERVIEW: @swipinsmudge2 talks to @MrBillMarshall about his career at @PSLCC : 📷 @rayspencer182
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A new club, Warley & Elland, is formed in West Yorkshire who will play in the Halifax League and be based at Hullen Edge:
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8 years
I have some good news to share this morning. I've won JM Kilburn Cricket Writer of the Year from @wcls1951 :
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6 years
Pleased to see @YorksDiamonds win at York. Up and running. Rare to see a five-wicket haul in T20, take a bow Katherine Brunt with 5-26.
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CY Twitter feed filled with excited clubs who've won promotion or titles. Commiserations to those at the other end of the scale. Shoutout to all the groundstaff, scorers and umpires across Yorkshire. 👍
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Cricket Yorkshire
6 years
TUESDAY INTERVIEW: @Farsley_cc President Ray Illingworth gives Yorkshire a 🚀 over player availability, bemoans 💷 in league cricket and much more: 🔥 Article, photos and podcast:
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Good to see the newly formed West Yorkshire Womens and Girls Cricket League get underway last weekend. Teams, clubs and leagues are emerging across the region. This is @PSLCC Sarah Wood who scored 84 against Lightcliffe Ladies. Look forward to catching a match in this league.
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Just voted - went for @FredBoycott on a platform of live cricket on FTA TV daily and the forward defence taught in primary schools.
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6 years
Lots of appreciation on here of Jonny Bairstow's hundred. You saw what it meant to him. Ends any debate over his place.
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Cricket Yorkshire
5 years
Good news for Scarborough, are there many instances of a ground hosting different 1st XI counties in the same competition/season?
@ScarboroCricket
Scarborough CC
5 years
We are delighted to announce that @DurhamCricket will be playing a @RoyalLondonCup match at @ScarboroCricket v @Gloscricket on Tuesday 21 July.
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A bit of a rollercoaster regarding recreational cricket but it's the end result, not the dodgy LBW decisions or runouts along the way. Here's my thoughts and do share yours: #cricket
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INTERVIEW: Meet Hedar Rasool; the club cricketer who can't wear this anti-racism slogan on his jumper for @ycsplcricket games:
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SIX OF THE BEST: With the 2022 season about a third complete, Andrew Gallon previews 6 league and cup games happening this weekend starting with @CopleyCC vs @IllingworthCC :
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2 years
You can forget that Harry Brook is in his fourth Test. Third hundred of this series. Most Test runs by an Englishman in Pakistan. He has looked unflustered and in total command.
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6 years
Good luck to 3 Yorkshire clubs in national finals in next week or so. @Hangingheatoncc (National T20) @richmondshirecc (National Club Championship) @FandFCC (National Village Cup) #FromYorkshire
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IT'S HERE!! The Cricket Yorkshire 50 for 2018. Players, scorers, writers, men and women of all ages and their awesomeness...have a read and share it round: ➡️
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🆕 THE CY50 IS OUT! 50 names from across Yorkshire cricket...who's in for 2017? Have a read:
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INTERVIEW: Chat with Rob Flack of @York_C_C about upgrading their facilities (new four-bay nets designed and delivered by @totalplayLtd ), plus club signings and other news from Clifton Park:
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Let's see what unfolds next week and what it means for grassroots cricket. Just need to learn the lessons of 2020. Gov not to 'announce' date of cricket's return. ECB to reveal guidelines more than 48hrs before the season. But club cricket has done it before and will be ready. 👍
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🏆 🏆 🏆 TREBLE: A weekend read for you. The history-makers. @ThorntonCC win the treble in the @HalifaxCL and aim to go undefeated all season. Interview with captain Ross Soames:
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Wow. It gets you thinking....have discussions between the ECB and government been on the basis that teams played with an imaginary cricket ball?
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6 years
David Stiff has just hit his 50 off 14 balls. Incredible @Hangingheatoncc hitting. Fifties too for Joe Fraser and Ben Kohler-Cadmore and mammoth sixes.
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It would have been the first day of the cricket season at Headingley today with the MCCU match. Always like reconnecting with folk after winter. Uncertain times but we'll all get through it.
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Hope the South Yorkshire cricket clubs like @FishlakeCricket and @WathCricketClub get all the help they need. I still remember the horror of the 2015 Boxing Day floods in West Yorkshire incl Bradford & Bingley (below).
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Bridgeholm is such a picture. Credit to Keith, the groundsman. Gets hit by floods but keeps bouncing back.
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Harry Brooks' 91* joins the Roses T20 honours board, alongside Jack Leaning's catch and Tim Bresnan's 6-19. What a knock that was last night.
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Pleased to have bagged the interview of the year as @DatFatCricketer talked fitness, keeping and Lord's finals. Up on on Friday. 👍
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NEW: How did Yorkshire’s cricket grounds look for the first weekend of the season? ➡️ 🏏 @bridgeholme 🏏 @AlneClub 🏏 @LowMoorHTCC 🏏 @CuckoosCricket 🏏 @DriffieldTownCC 🏏 @MulgraveCricket 🏏 @KECC1853 🏏 @Houghton_MainCC
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COMPETITION: Win a framed A3 print of @ScarboroCricket , courtesy of @TheCricketerMag . To enter: 🏏 Follow @cricketyorks & RT 🏏Full Details: Good luck!
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IT'S HERE!! The Cricket Yorkshire 50 is back: Fifty stars from the grassroots game. Know anyone who's included?
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Cricket Yorkshire
7 years
I will jump on the grumpy bus and say no players should be half available for a match. It devalues the County Championship...
@YorkshireCCC
Yorkshire Vikings
7 years
After recent communication with the ECB, we can confirm Gary Ballance is available for the first two days of the @CountyChamp match v Surrey
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NEW: Interview with Luke Brooksby of @IllingworthCC about using @Frogboxlive , introducing heritage honours caps and making the most of Play-Cricket:
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