A View from the Boundary

One Hell of a Garage Project Wykeham Cricket Club is the epitome of the English village cricket club. Just a few miles to the west of Scarborough, a quintessential ground in a serene setting, accessed via wrought iron gates hung from decorative sandstone pillars and shielded from the road by a semicircle of mature trees […]

Both ends of the cricket spectrum Written by Tony Hutton & Originally Posted on the ‘Cricket History of Calderdale & Kirklees’ Blog page in 2017 Sunday 2nd July and we are surprisingly already half way through the cricket season. Today was originally a cricket free day with travelling to Scarborough the chief priority, to be […]

Fred Bernard Umpires County Championship   Origninally Published by ‘The Guardian’ Sun 21 Aug 2011      It’s the sort of event that for most happens only in dreams. There’s a crisis on the stage or the pitch. One of the principals cannot continue; no substitute is available. An appeal is made. Someone who came just […]