CRICKET FROM THE NORTH: Derby Days

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Derby Days

Saturday 19 June

Posted by Peter Davies

A late start so we headed straight for Kirkburton, one of our favourite spots. The 2nd XI were at home and we enjoyed a very nice couple of hours. Dad visited the tea room and brought back a cheese sandwich and a nice little cake. Skelmanthorpe were the visitors - a real local derby. Dad then went for a walk, phoned me on my mobile(!!!), and I wandered round the boundary to catch him up. All very pleasant late-afternoon stuff.

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About the project:

This blog was originated in 2008 as an offshoot of the separate website ‘The cricket history of Calderdale and Kirklees’ which covered in depth the histories of every league cricket club in these two areas of West Yorkshire. Unfortunately this site fell into disuse although there are now plans to reinstate it by the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation.

Meanwhile the blog has gone its own way and has expanded into a review of cricket at all levels throughout the north of England, both past and present. The three current bloggers are all Yorkshire based. Tony Hutton and John Winn are both members of Durham and Yorkshire county clubs and Brian Sanderson is an active member of the Yorkshire archives committee.

We have now recruited Lancashire based Mike Latham, well known in both cricket and rugby league circles, to provide an ever wider coverage of cricket from the north.