The captain of Sheffield Collegiate Cricket Club has expressed his pride at his friend and England captain Joe Root reaching 100 Tests for his country. Josh Varley played with Root and his brother Billy at the club based in Dore, Sheffield, whilst growing up and says...
A group of men have successfully put forward a proposal to improve the cricket facilities in their local park. Last year Sheffield was selected as a pilot city, receiving £145,000 from the English Cricket Board (ECB) to install ten artificial cricket pitches across...
Sheffield-born cricketer Joe Root has become the fastest ever One Day International player to reach 5,000 runs for England. Root scored 102 from 97 balls in the first match of the series versus the West Indies, also became the fourth fastest in the world to reach...
The University of Sheffield sports teams have had a lively start to the season, including three broken records and 74 wins. The women’s netball team are the first in BUCS history to record over 100 points in a game when University of Sheffield Womens 4th team beat...
Prominent faces of cricket have been paying tribute to former England and Yorkshire batsman, John Hampshire, who died yesterday aged 76. He made his debut for Yorkshire in 1961 and went on to captain a team which won the County Championship five times. After retiring...
The 80th man to lead England in tests is Sheffield-born and Sheffield Collegiate CC alumni Joe Root. After Alastair Cook’s resignation as test captain was announced last week, the cricketing world has waited in anticipation for the arrival of Joe Root as the new...
