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07.05.26Features
Dom Bess played a significant part in Yorkshire's first victory at his former home ground since 2017 last weekend, scoring a much needed 40 in the second innings and picking up four Somerset wickets on the final day, including the best man at his forthcoming wedding, Tom Abell.
06.05.26Features
As Yorkshire's men prepare for a trip to Edgbaston to take on Warwickshire this week, Graham Orange has been taking a look back at notable matches, players and feats during the history of this fixture.
06.05.26History
Sheffield Collegiate are now the only unbeaten side in the division, but they had to work hard for a 15-run win over Cawthorne at Abbeydale.
05.05.26Matchday
With the 2026 season under way, WRF takes a closer look at the ins and outs of disability cricket in Yorkshire, courtesy of Owen Jervis, the Yorkshire disability teams manager.
05.05.26Features
Steeton are at the summit of the Premier Division after Week 3 of the 2026 season following a comfortable 5-wicket home victory against Pool who, in contrast, are winless.
And then there was one. On a day punctuated by free-flowing run scoring, dramatic batting collapses and spinner domination reigning champions Barnard Castle were the only team to emerge with an unbeaten record intact.
Sporting cliché dictates that you've got to celebrate victories when they occur. Yorkshire absolutely deserve to do so after their thrilling comeback win at Taunton but they'll know that they'll need to be 'on it' from the get-go it they're to back up at Edgbaston.
05.05.26Opinion
Yorkshire knocked Somerset off their perch with a superb display of sustained high quality bowling and fielding on the final day at Taunton, to emerge victorious by 75 runs.
Half-centuries from James Wharton and Joe Root kept Yorkshire in with a fighting chance on the third day of the Rothesay County Championship Division One match at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.
03.05.26Matchday
Half-centuries from Lauren Winfield-Hill and Sterre Kalis were not enough for Yorkshire Women as Essex Women won a nailbiter in Leeds by just 13 runs.
02.05.26Matchday
Yorkshire staged a spirited fightback on day two of the Rothesay County Championship match against First Division leaders Somerset at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.
Yorkshire suffered another bad day at the office as Somerset moved firmly into the ascendancy on the opening day in Taunton.
01.05.26Matchday
The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has today launched Chasing Glory 2026–2036, a long-term strategy to return Yorkshire to the top of the game, alongside publishing its FY25 financial results which, it says, provide a stronger platform for future investment and growth.
01.05.26News
In the build-up to Yorkshire's trip to Taunton to face Somerset, WRF's Graham Orange reflects on some matches between the counties, as well as great feats and players from yesteryear.
30.04.26History
Former Northern Diamonds star Phoebe Turner and current Yorkshire all-rounder Jess Jonassen both scored brilliant hundreds are the Tykes women and their Durham counterparts couldn't be separated at Scarborough.
29.04.26Matchday
It was better but there's still a way to go for Yorkshire if they're to put up a four day performance capable of bringing them a first win of the season, after they emerged marginally the better team in this draw against Sussex.
27.04.26Matchday
WRF takes a look back at last weekend in the Bradford League.
England star Joe Root cruised to 96 but fell short of a 12th first-class century for Yorkshire in the hosts' strong response to Sussex’s first-innings 502 on day three of the Rothesay County Championship fixture which looks likely but not certain to finish in a draw at Headingley.
Continuing our league cricket coverage on WRF, here's a round-up of the second round of matches in the Airedale & Wharfedale League.
A seventh first class hundred by Finlay Bean and a first half century for Yorkshire by Sam Whiteman means their unbroken 175-run partnership overnight is a record for the second wicket for the White Rose against Sussex. It also kept Yorkshire in this match after the visitors piled on 502 in their first innings.
25.04.26Matchday
A brilliant all-round performance by Jess Jonassen, who made her first century in professional cricket and followed that with four wickets, led Yorkshire to a second win in four games by 83 runs in the Women’s Metro Bank One Day Cup at Emirates Old Trafford with defending champions Lancashire now having lost three from four.
Aussie Test seamer Jhye Richardson and Netherlands paceman Logan van Beek both had off days as John Simpson hit his 20th first class 'ton' on an opening day when Yorkshire let a promising position slip.
24.04.26Matchday
Premier League umpire Graham Orange draws on his extensive collection of Wisdens to pick out some notable moments where the histories of the two counties have come together.
23.04.26History
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