With less than five weeks to go before we can see first class cricket and fewer than forty days before the county championship begins and encouraged by the recent good weather it is time to look forward to the new season. Traditionally most league cricket has begun on the third Saturday in April and even though this year that is the Saturday of the Easter Weekend a trawl through the various websites shows that for some at least that makes no difference. There follows a list of the starting dates for most of the leagues in the North East and Yorkshire and those that have not yet published.
Saturday 13th April: NYSD Div 2, one match in South Yorks league, Div 6 Whitley Hall III v Green Moor Sports II
Saturday 20th April: Yorkshire Premier League South, North East Premier League, Darlington and District League, Aire Wharf, Huddersfield League, Pontefract and District, Dales Council, South Yorkshire, NYSD Premier, Halifax League
Saturday 27th April: Craven and District, Durham Cricket League, Yorkshire Premier league North, York and District, Bradford League,
Sunday 28th April: Scarborough Beckett, thereafter Saturdays,
Fixtures not published include Langbaurgh League, Nidderdale, Wetherby, Bradford Mutual Sunday School.
Finally it is gratifying to bring some good news from the Darlington and District League. In August 2017 I reported on a visit I made to the home of Lands CC, a club in South West Durham, founded in 1898. Lands were riding high in Division A at that time but a few months later it was announced that the club had folded due to a shortage of players but Lands will return in 2019 having been accepted back into the fold. The ground (below) has been kept in good order and a twelve strong committee appointed. They will begin the new season in Division C when their vistors will be Aldborough St John II. Welcome back.
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