All Wickets Great And Small

In Search of Yorkshire's Grassroots Cricket

John Fuller

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785312311
• Year: 2016

Nothing stops for cricket in Yorkshire. Passion runs deep, beyond those in whites, to the groundsmen, tea ladies, scorers, and umpires who embody the game. All Wickets Great and Small is a romp across the landscape of amateur cricket in Yorkshire during the summer of 2015. Author John Fuller looks at the key issues affecting the grassroots game: the struggles to attract players, funding shortages, natural disasters and the social dynamics that can threaten a captain's 11 on a Saturday. What shape is the grassroots game in and can it still survive and thrive? From vicars and imams socking sixes in Dewsbury to heritage clubs hitting social media out of the park, this is the story of sleeves-rolled-up cricket at its best in the county that locals call "God's own."

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Park Avenue, Bradford
• West View Rise, Paddock
• Galphay Road, Studley Royal
• Playing fields, Weetwood
• Lock Lane, Altofts
• St George’s Road, Harrogate
• Intake Road, Undercliffe
• The Retreat, York
• Old Guy Road, Queensbury
• Bolton Bridge, Bolton Abbey
• Newsham Road, Thirsk
• Harewell Close, Glasshouses
• North Marine Road, Scarborough
• A Whistlestop Tour of Clubs North of Leeds
• Sandal Hall Close, Walton
• Carleton New Road, Skipton
• Poplar Avenue, Townville
• Sands Lane, Dewsbury
• Drawing Stumps