Please ensure that your club is represented at the 2025 League AGM takes place at Shaw Lane Sports Club, Barnsley on Wednesday 19 November (7.00pm). Full documentation for the meeting is published here. 

 

 

The League’s annual dinner is on Saturday 15 November 2025, at OEC Sheffield, Penistone Road, Sheffield S6 2DE, 6.30pm for 7.15pm. Please be aware that: 

 

• the venue is cashless, but please bring cash for the raffle!! 

• the dress code is smart casual – no sportsgear or headwear to be worn 

• dinner invoices are now in clubs’ Play-Cricket action centres. 

 

 

On 29 October, we released the divisional allocations for 2026, including proposals for the regionalisation of Divisions 7 to 9 on a North and South basis. We subsequently received some negative feedback, both official and unofficial, about the proposed allocations in these divisions, primarily around the amount of travelling involved and the strength of the respective divisions. We have considered this feedback, and Matt Summerhill has offered to develop an alternative solution, which, instead of North and South regionalisation, would mean splitting each division into ‘Conferences A & B’. Each Conference would have a mix of new and old teams, share out the burden of travel, and provide a more even spread of team strengths. 

 

We ask the existing YCSPL clubs with teams in Divisions 7 to 9 to consider the above, and at the AGM we will take a vote of those clubs on whether they prefer the original option, as in the Divisional Allocations paper, or a Conference system, as above, and we will go with the majority. 

 

 

The YCSPL were represented at the Black History Month celebration event on Thursday 23 October, which was expertly hosted by our Equity & Diversity Group co-ordinator Jason Booth. It was an excellent event, both interesting and thought-provoking, and we encourage club officials and players to attend future events. 

 

 

Following the tragedy in Australia, is a good time to stop, check and revisit our net safety. The ECB Coaches Safety Pack is published on our website. 

 

 

There is Safe Hands workshop at Scholes & Harley CC on Tuesday 25 November 2025 (18.30-21.30), at which at least two more participants are required in order for the course to go ahead. If you would like to attend, please register here. 

 

 

• Date – Saturday 3rd January, 2026 

• Venue – The S20 Boundary Indoor Cricket Centre, 1 Longacre Cl, Sheffield, S20 3FR 

• Times – 9:30am to 4pm 

 

For more information and to book a place, please click on this registration link. 

 

 

There is a vacancy for a Community Cricket officer for the YCF in South Yorkshire - see this link.