Important Announcement

 Posted by Tony Hutton

This blog was originated in 2008 by Peter Davies as an offshoot of the separate website 'The Cricket History of Calderdale and Kirklees' which covered in depth the histories of each league club in those 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 over the years into a review of cricket at all levels throughout the north of England, both past and present. We are now about to take the long awaited step of changing the blog's name to 'Cricket from the north'. This will mirror more accurately what we are about. The new domain address will be 'cricketfromthenorth.blogspot.com' and we will notify you of the date of change in the near future.

We have managed to keep going throughout the current crisis and now look forward to 2021 and hope that the cricket season might be able to function with some degree of normality. It is encouraging to see some cricket leagues have already published their fixtures for next season. We will continue in very much the same way, visiting cricket grounds throughout the north of England at all levels of the game from county cricket to the most obscure cricket leagues.

The new title is in no way intended to widen the north/south divide which seems to exist in so many aspects of life. As you will see from our now considerable archive, regular southern tours have been undertaken during the past and I personally have visited every county in England to watch cricket. We are by no means blinkered northerners. John Winn has lived and played cricket in the south of England, I too was exiled in the Midlands for twenty years, whereas Brian Sanderson is very much Yorkshire through and through, but has also travelled extensively to watch his native county.

We very much hope that you, our regular readers, will stick with us and tell you friends about us. With this more appropriate title we hope to enlarge our following and continue to entertain you with our tales of cricket on and off the beaten track.