Monday 17th May will see further Lockdown rules relaxation but will also be scheduled First Round ties in the John Hindle Memorial Cup for under-13s with Home ties for

Crossflatts, Earby, Oakworth, Settle & Steeton.

Reserve day is Monday 24th May.

In addition Skipton will host GHC in their rearranged Hargreaves Cup tie, whilst 24 hours later the Riddlesdale 'derby' between Settle and Earby will be on offer. Finally Wednesday features Barritt-Stephenson Cup ties at Earby and Oakworth.

Monday 10th May sees the scheduled First Round of the Barritt-Stephenson Cup for under-11s with Home ties for

Oakworth, Earby, Sutton, Steeton, Embsay, Gt Horton Church & Harden.

 At Skipton, Bradford & Bingley & Settle,  we also have the Raleigh Hargreaves Cup for under-15s First Round ties.

So there'll be 20 teams in Cup action. Good luck to all teams especially in view of the rain this last week which may play a part, hopefully not, but we do have a reserve day in Monday 17th May.

UAJCA is pleased to announce its under-10 representative squad for 2021. Manager Alex Howarth and Coach Chris Cummings  announce the following players in their under-10s squad for the season:

Will McPherson, Sami Hussain & Oliver Pennington [all Crossflatts], Sam Charmbury, Jack Godden & Albie Ellis [all Oakworth], Elliot Howarth [Steeton], Frank Binns [U Wharfedale], Freddie Padgett, Sulaiman Mahmood & Max Rigby [all Harden] and Joseph Kennedy [Skipton].

Additional players will be added to the list as 2021 form materialises

Joe Birks [Skipton, Capt], Thomas Chapman [Earby v/capt], Thomas Durn, Rhys Mazey, Harry Hinchcliffe & George Kitson [all Crossflatts], Caleb Gledhilll & Thomas Smith [both Steeton], Harvey Green [Settle], Jake Smith [U Wharfedale], Tom Raby [Oakworth], Oliver Riley-Radcliffe & Umair Chaudary [both Embsay] and James Feeney [Skipton].

Standby Reserves will be Charlie Whitaker [Sutton], Uzair Alavi [Skipton] and Jack Gibson [Steeton]

Frank Caton, James Galley, Sam Galley [all Settle], Joshua Barton, Archie Cox & Will Oakden [all Steeton], Freddie Greathead [all Oakworth], Seth Rawlinson [Earby], Max Bailey, Hashim Hussain & Max Wilkinson [all Crossflatts], Hashim Khokhar [GHC] and Zac Hezseltine [Bradley].

Standby Reserve will be: Archie Dobson [Oakworth]

The 2021 K3 Dental Cup draw has been made and UAJCA have a Home tie vs the Bradford League. The match is to be played on Sunday 6th June at a venue to be determined shortly.

UAJCA is proud to announce that the progress of UAJCA Top Lads Will Luxton [Steeton CC] [below left] and James Mukherjee [Skipton CC] continue to progress at Yorkshire CCC. Both are to debut for YCCC 2nd Xl this week against Durham.

We're very proud of you both, lads. We wish you all the best in your quest in higher status cricket. Fly the UAJCA flag!!

Will Luxton	James Mukherjee

Great Horton Church [above] comfortably defeated Skipton in the u13s Hindle Cup Final at Sandylands. The Bradford-based side racked up 90-7 in their 20 overs with major contributions from Noah Thirkill [19], Ibrahim Khan [18] and Mustapha Hussain [14].  Skipton were bowled out for just 56 to take a third Cup back to Allerton Road.

Yesterday [Sat] the GHC under-11s [above] had proved too strong for Earby, winning by 75 runs. Zar Ali opened with 22with prolific Armaan Mahmood adding 20 in a 282-3 posting [[106-3]. Earby battled gamely with 14 from skipper Alex Hall and 11 to Ben Jolly. Their scoring was severely curtailed by an impressive Ayan Ahsan who picked up an astonishing 5 for 6 as Earby ended at 204-8.

Oliver Riley-Ratcliffe [27no] finished the job started by the Embsay bowlers who bowled out Oakworth for 44. Only Lauren Hunter [13], Mohammed Saad [10] and Eli Henson [8] made any impact for the home team. Riley-Radcliffe led the bowlers with 2-0 and there was also 2 wickets each for Jacob Ratcliffe, Will Rickerby and Josh Draper. Embsay ended at 46-1 after 9.4 overs.

Great Horton Church have gone one step further than Oakworth in 2019 and reached all four UAJCA Cup Finals. Having already won the under-9s Final last week, today [Sat 12th Sept] GHC have added the under-11s Barritt-Stephenson Cup with victory by 78 runs over finalists Earby.

Upper Wharfedale won the Cup in 2006 [pictured above] for their only time at Denholme CC defeating fellow long-distance travellers Settle CC to take the Cup. Great Horton Church CC have never won the Hargreaves Cup but should they do so they will complete an unprecedented full set of four Cup wins in the year.

But in the season's finale, Great Horton Church clinched their fourth Cup win of the season. Upper Wharfedale CC batted first posting 97-6 in 20 overs. Dylan Canny [30] and Jack Midgley [24] were the principal Dales team' contributors.  Clamping their run-scoring was Hassan Qureshi with 2-17. GHC lost early wickets of Raheeb Akhtar, Ayaan Khokhar and Hannan Qureshi as Wharfedale bit back in style. It was GHC skipper Mohammed Yousef with 38no from 22 balls, who set the Bradford side on the road to victory, which came courtesy of Taymour Awan and Ibraheem Azim. The GHC target was reached in 15.3 overs with 4 wickets down.

Geat Horton Church had completed a historic four Cup wins in the Covid-19 ravaged season. Whilst UWCC did themselves proud in producing a competitive final.

Upper Wharfedale CC had waited patiently to learn their opponents in the under-15s Final of the 2020 Raleigh Hargreaves Memorial Cup. Having won their semi-final on 5th September they will now face Great Horton Church on Saturday 20th at the Bradford Park Avenue ground. Great Horton reached the Final following a close win over Settle in their protracted weather-ravaged semi-final. 

A slight improvement in the woeful weather allowed Upper Wharfedale to stage the 2020 under-9s Cup Final against Great Horton Church. The photo below shows the enjoyment the players were able to gain with the Bradford side emerging the winners by 39 runs.

Its the first time GHC have won the u-9s Cup and the fifth different winner in five years. Well done GHC and well battled UWCC.

September 10th is as late as UAJCA has ever had fixtures, but STEETON and CROSSFLATTS played out their Plate Final at Ryshworth Park despite the fading light.

Alex Howarth's boys and girls won the Plate. More to follow:

The Cup Final will be between EARBY and GREAT HORTON CHURCH on Saturday morning [12th Sept] at 9:30am Good luck to both teams.

Nab Wood Crematorium was awash with cricketers and former cricketers to say farewell to Len Falkingham. Len [89] passed away at his home of two years at Thompson Court recently. UAJCA offers its sincere condolences to his extended family. His grandsons gave the eulogy for a grandfather who had dedicated his long life to the game of cricket and in particular to his beloved Harden Cricket Club.

His son Mark and two grandsons Martin and Richard had been joined at the  club by Len's great-grandson Alfie who is now making his career at the Cuckoos Nest in the Harden under-11s.

Len had been President of the club for 52 years and was until recently an active member of  the Keighley Cup Committee, sponsors of UAJCA under-17s League. Farewell Len... you'll be missed.

TOP HONOURS FOR UAJCA PLAYERS

UAJCA acclaims the successes of two of its players, who have both been awarded places within the Yorkshire County team structure.

Will Luxton [Steeton CC] [below left] was acclaimed as the Player of the Season by YCCC following his appearance for the North of England at the Bunbury Festival and his earlier century against rivals Lancashire. Will now finds himself a place on the Emerging Player Programme [EPP].

To his right is James Mukherjee [Skipton CC] who now has a place at the Yorkshire Academy following his stint with the EPP and County Age Group appearances in 2018, despite being injured for a while.

We're very proud of you both, lads. We wish you all the best in your quest in higher status cricket. Fly the UAJCA flag!!

Will Luxton	James Mukherjee

Congratulations to Earby Cricket Club's Adam Hodge who has been named Lancashire Cricket Academy Under 13's Player of the Year at Lancashire Cricket's County Age Group awards presentation which took place in The Point at Emirates Old Trafford on Wednesday evening (21/11/18). Well done Adam

UAJCA can proudly state it provided cricket opportunity for the top player in Yorkshire and the best player in Lancashire in the same year!

Our Annual get-together at the magnificent Malham Suite in the Rendezvous to acclaim all our winners, both team and individual was a huge success with an attendance of perhaps 350 players, parents and officials. UAJCA was fortunate to have guests on the night with Commercial Partner Gareth Wooler [RN Wooler] [above] joined by Johandre Barnard [S Africa] .

UAJCA was also very fortunate to have the services of photographer John Whiteoak and we are sure you will enjoy his superb photos. To view the full report and photos of the winners CLICK HERE

Manager Ji Mukherjee was well pleased with the outcome although the early UAJCA fielding was below standard, but which improved markedly as the match progressed. We can now look forward with confidence to next week's match with Heavy Woollen District at New Farnley CC