DHL summary on Glassdoor

I have quoted a few examples, quickly found on Glassdoor.
All these examples back up statements that I have already made about DHL and its Management.

Here is a Summary of some of the issues, just to give you a flavour of DHL Life;

Bullying

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-more-bullying-on-glassdoor.html

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-on-glassdoor-bullying.html

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/05/dhl-glassdoor-summaryto-date.html

Rules & Regulations

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-v-rules-and-regulations.html

Lies

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-lies-glassdoor.html

Slavery

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-slavery-glassdoor.html

Vendettas

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-vendetta-glassdoor.html

Values

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-values-glassdoor.html

Self Regulation

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-on-glassdoor-self-regulation.html

Health and Safety

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-health-and-safety-on-glassdoor.html

Fraud

https://fightingthecorporatebullies.blogspot.com/2019/08/dhl-fraud-v-dhl-bullying.html

DHL v. Rules and regulations

When you are self regulated you can do what you want.

There were numerous issues raised in my complaint to DHL

DHL & Slavery - Glassdoor

Following on from DHL's use of slaves in an advertisement on twitter (Which quite mysteriously seems to have "disappeared"), I'm not the only person highlighting slavery

DHL Vendetta - Glassdoor

DHL Values - Glassdoor

 

 

DHL on Glassdoor - Self Regulation

HR Policies are really poor.

Why? Self Regulation means that they can do what they want.

It's why complaints are meaningless.

 Staff Churn - Ditto

DHL - Health and Safety on Glassdoor

Not just Health and Safety, but plenty of other issues mentioned here.

Virtually all issues that I had raised with DHL management.

May I just raise the self regulating issue here?

DHL - More Bullying on Glassdoor

You will see from the times on the top of each photo that it took me just 23 minutes to find the following.
That was just scrolling through the reviews without using any filters.

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

Number 5

Number 6

That's a nice half-dozen to add to the previous example, all with bullying specifically mentioned.

#tailended moves house

I have created a new blog for all things #tailended

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9033737763910337177#allposts

Clearing some space for those stories on fraud within DHL.

Top Employers Institute - August Update

If you can call it an update, here's one from the Top Employers Institute.


Hello Mike,

Thank you for showing interest in receiving a newsletter from Top Employers Institute. We hope to inspire you with news and insights from ourselves, as well as Top Employers from around the world and industry experts as well as HR leaders, who together, encourage the building of a better world of work.

Etc., Etc., Etc.

Just answer the question, because reality contradicts this.

the building of a better world of work

If I was the Top Employers Institute, I wouldn't want to be associated with DHL, let alone awarding them a certification.
I'm not sure how fraud, deceit, hypocrisy, Lies and bullying creates a "better world of work".

DHL on Glassdoor - Bullying

If you speak up your out

Anyone doubt these reviews on Glassdoor aren't genuine?

DHL Lies -Glassdoor

I was going to post a few of these together, but my photo's aren't downloading.
It doesn't take long to find examples on Glassdoor to back up my own evidence.

Management have a tendency to bend the truth.

That's one to back up my statement of Lies

DHL Fraud v. DHL Bullying

Spoiler alert

It's a draw

It would normally go to penalties.

But there can't be any for DHL

I have previously detailed examples of why I named my book,

Deceit,

Hypocrisy & 

Lies.

You can use the label index on the right to find some of the details listed under each category.

I'm not sure why, but presumably due to the way that I set up the initial draft, I cannot make the book free on Amazon. It was meant to be available for anyone to see the real face of DHL. Bullying included, on top of the deceit, hypocrisy and lies.

Everything listed and used is 100% genuine.

Some of it you couldn't even make up.

I received a phone call from DHL earlier this afternoon following an example of fraud that I have been following up for a friend.

Yes, that is friend and not friend, as in me.

Unfortunately, being in Spain, it was no surprise that we were cut off. The agent hasn't, as yet, phoned back. The little of the conversation that the agent managed was a response to my previously unanswered question "Who regulates DHL?"

Andy, as we shall call him, for that was his name, got as far as self-regulated.

Anyone see where this might be going?

Answers on a postcard to the usual address etc.

Self-regulated = un-regulated.

DHL can do anything it wants because no-one is going to slap their pandies, let alone fine them for fraud or bullying, Managers know that they can get away with anything because nothing can/will happen.

Hence the draw, with no penalty shoot out.

Both bullying and fraud is rife within DHL because Managers know that they can get away with it.

DHL v. #tailended

I have cocked-up.
It has been a grim couple of years thanks to DHL.
I thought that I could have a bit of fun with #tailended and a few cricket grounds around West Yorkshire.
I didn't realise that there were quite so many that I would be able to pass in such a short time. I currently have 334 flagged on my map. I still have to edit some of the photos, to prove that, to quote Max Boyce, I was there, and to add in a little history of the club if some can be found.

Note to clubs. Why not use some of these rain affected matches to update/use your social media. The post World Cup boat may now have drowned in the Ashes deluge, but if no-one knows who or where you are, how are you going to attract new members? Many clubs seem to feature the same few names in their lists of officials, If the list even exists, what happens when they pack up? It seems that every club has been issued a Play Cricket website, why not take advantage of it? There are some very good websites out there, not necessarily created by the bigger clubs. Have a look at The Jesters or West Bretton as two that stick in my mind, and see what you can do. Involve your younger, probably more tech savvy members.

That was a bit of an aside from where I was going.
It still have a number of clubs to plot, from my impressive 37,000 feet cricket clubs, to La Manga in Spain, but, and this is my cock-up, it is burying my information on DHL. I should have created a separate blog for #tailended. I may try and transfer the information in the future, but I will have to put a temporary hold on my #tailending. Cue sad emoji.
Mentally I have been beaten by DHL, but in addition to the bullying that I have endured, I now have some information on fraudulent scanning by DHL.
It just adds to the;

Deceit

Hypocrisy &

Lies

that DHL means to me.
For anyone having followed my blog there is plenty of information to prove that there is substance to my statements.
I can prove that Management Lied.
I can prove that Management approves of dishonest scanning to hide DHL's failures.

#tailended will return, hopefully quicker than John Payne of Asia, to Leeds.
That's been a long wait.

Blubberhouses Cricket Club

A club with it's own website !!

It was looking good until........Page One which gave details of the 2017 season.

Blubberhouses are currently playing Nidderdale & District, Division 6

There is some information on the club though.

Blubberhouses Cricket Club was originally formed during the first half of the 19th
Century, between this time and the present day the Club has only occupied four cricket
grounds:

1. On land belonging to the ‘Gill family’ of Blubberhouses Hall, situated on the opposite
   side of the river Washburn, slightly upstream from the present ground. The ‘Gill Family’
   still have connections with the club.
2. Between 1904/06 on land near to the Hopper Lane Hotel.
3. At the rear of the Manor House, (Which stands on the opposite side of the road to
   Blubberhouses Church).
4. On the present ground, which was originally the site of the West House Flax Mill and below
   the site of the old Skaife Hall.

Towards the end of the 19th century the then occupant of Skaife Hall a Colonel
Galloway improved the ground and held an annual cricket festival, which brought a degree of fame
to the ground and to Blubberhouses, with national and international players taking part,
including the Hon.F.S.Jackson, B.J.T. Bosanquet (the father of the Googly) and George Ulyett.

The Galloway’s became great benefactors to the Cricket Club and eventually
allowed the Club to use the ground. Ownership later passed to the Leeds Corporation and thence to
Yorkshire Water, who are the present day land lords.

Our present ground, below the site of the old Skaife Hall, was improved by the
Galloway family and is believed to have been used around the 1880’s. Col. William Galloway who
as President of the club promoted a annual Cricket Festival with national and international
players taking part, including the Hon. F.S.Jackson who played for Yorkshire between 1890 &
1907, George Ulyett who played for Yorkshire between 1873 & 1893 and B.J.T. Bosanquet the
player responsible for the ‘Googly’.

1992 sparked a memorable year as it commemorated the opening of the new pavilion.
In 2006, the installation of electricity was completed.
The 2008 season saw a new kitchen with cooker installed into the pavilion.
In 2013, thanks to Club President Michael Clipston, the club acquired an electric scoreboard.

Pateley Bridge Cricket Club

There is little on the Pateley Bridge website but there is a great history of the club here, by Dr. Rob Light, (Possibly 2nd XI Captain) with some information on other Nidderdale clubs.

Glasshouses Cricket Club

A smidge of info from their Facebook site, though the link to history contains............

Yes you've guessed, Nothing

About

Welcome to the Glasshouses Cricket Club Facebook page. Established in 1886 and in 1894 became one of the founding 6 of the Nidderdale League. Having never looked back Glasshouses Cricket Club continues to compete the beautiful Yorkshire dales.

Glasshouses have been the predominant team throughout the history of the league, winning the league on 19 occasions and the league knock-out competition 15 times, the latter 9 years in succession from 1946 to 1954. In fact so strong was the club that in one season the 1st XI met the 2nd XI in the knock-out cup final.

However, another article from the excellent CricketYorkshire

Today’s adventure to the village of Glasshouses is a shunt north along the A59, dipping in and out of Nidderdale communities on the number 24 bus heading for Pateley Bridge.

It’s pleasantly warm; sunshine peeks from behind candyfloss clouds to light up the Yorkshire countryside and the bus driver looks satisfyingly immaculate, sporting a red tie that matches his cheeks.
Glasshouses CC have just the one team and play in Division Five of the Theakston Nidderdale Cricket League, of which this small village is a founding member.
A number of people have talked about Glasshouses in hushed tones as a special place to watch or play cricket but as I walk through this village around one o’clock, a weather front floats in and it begins to lash it down.
It is a considerable way, however picturesque, to come to watch it rain but the trip, which is part-research for a future best-selling cricket book, is largely about Ken.

The groundsman at Glasshouses since he moved to the village and married over half a century ago, Ken literally lives on the ground and it will be opportunity to learn about the trials and tribulations of a village club.
The forecast for this afternoon is rock-solid, trust-us-honestly, we-know-what-we’re-on-about sunshine. But the weather front has sat on Glasshouses and the rest of the valley like a petulant child in a playground and is absolutely not budging anytime soon.
I have played at many grounds where both teams would have long since disappeared home but both Glasshouses and Crakehall stand about in the rain, curiously happy and wait for signs that they can crack on with a game.
The ground at Glasshouses is a stunner. I haven’t played all summer and it made me want to ditch everything and go and get my bowling flayed to all parts once more.
It looks perfectly possible to deflect a ball with nothing more than a flamboyant upper cut into Ken’s walled garden for six.
The rain allows a chance to put the world to rights with Ken inside while his wife tackles a vast jigsaw puzzle the size of a sight-screen.
Eventually, it stops raining and in next to no time, the opening bowlers are marking out their run as Crakehall’s batsmen venture out.

Amy, who became the first female cricketer in the league’s history to hit a hundred earlier in the season, is opening the bowling for Glasshouses and nips out three batsmen early on.
At the ‘groundman’s garden’ end, benches allow spectators an elevated view of the cricket while at the far end, a wooden stepladder is propped up against the wall; behind which, I now know after cryptic social media warnings, is a steep bank down to the river Nidd.
Crakehall recover from a rocky start and pile on the runs in the latter stages but if I’m being entirely honest, the cricket is secondary to a visually awesome vista and the down-to-earth and friendly welcome from the club.
As a club, this village will have its challenges from the small player pool to the usual financial constraints and a struggle to source junior cricketers locally, which if you’ve already read the Old Town CC article on Cricket Yorkshire, can be a barrier to sustainability.
In Glasshouses’ favour is a gem of a ground; volunteers who care about the club and a team in the Nidderdale Ladies Evening League – with ladies cricket more popular in this part of Yorkshire than I knew or you might perhaps think for a rural area with pockets of villages.
Also up their sleeve is Ken, who spends more time on the ground than he will likely admit to. He was eyeing the weather distrustfully the week I was there with a crucial fundraiser planned for the Sunday.
Every club should have a Ken, many probably do and clubs would do well to look after and learn from these stalwarts who immerse themselves completely in club life.

As you can see from the soggy umpire above, at some point in Crakehall’s innings, it starts to absolutely hammer it down; siling it down, to reach for a Yorkshire-ism.
The players are surely going to come off, aren’t they? But no, they stay out until they all look like they’ve been swimming, fully clothed.
Unfortunately, there is only enough time to scoop up a scone at tea before it’s time to catch the bus back to Harrogate but this taste of village cricket has been well worth the epic round trip. Glasshouses is absolutely to be recommended, if you ever get the chance…
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Dacre Banks Cricket Club

Doesn't appear to be a vast amount of information available about DBCC.

Currently playing Nidderdale and District Amateur Cricket League, Division 1.

There is a little information here, from the Nidderdale league website.

Quick plug for the match sponsor;

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Top Employers Institute

I received an email on Tuesday.

It was almost telepathic in that I'd been thinking about the "Top Employers Institute" fairly recently.

When I say "Top" & "Employer" together it is only because this is their trading name.

It does not surprise me in the least that TEI have only manged this response far.

Dear Sir/Madam Whitehead, Thank you for reaching out to us! A member of our team will review your request and forward it to relevant departments if needed. Based on the nature of your request we will respond in a timely manner. Kind regards, The Top Employers Institute

3 hours later I received an update.
Ah, they'd emailed me in error, why would they tell me that?
Though the update may have been that they'd remembered my name.

Hello Mike Whitehead, 

Due to a technical issue, you may have received an email from us on the 6th of August. At some point, you have reached out to Top Employers Institute and now, have received a second confirmation. We apologise for the inconvenience this might have caused. For further handling of your data we would therefore like to guide you to our privacy policy. Please select one of the two options below, indicating if you would like to receive information from Top Employers Institute, or if you would like to unsubscribe from any future communication.

I see that there is no option for "I would like an answer to my question"

Is this a response to my May follow-up?
Or is it a response to my original question submitted in September last year.

I'd appreciate a response in a "timely manner", but I know that I'm not going to get it.


Quick follow-up
TPI couldn't answer me because they were too busy certifying DHL for 2019.
I'm guessing they had to spend so much time sweeping things under the carpet that they didn't have time to investigate.
Or that everything that they should have been investigating was hidden under the carpet.

Flockton Cricket Club

Cricket has been played in Flockton since 1868, but no-one is absolutely certain of the formation date, and that is why the club has never felt able to celebrate its centenary. 

In its early years, the club played its home games at a venue called The Rough - just 200-300 yards to the north of the current ground. The Rough doesn't sound like the ideal kind of venue, and the search was soon on for something better. In 1926 the club's Trustees settled on Hill Top. 

But the players and their friends in the village had to do all the hard work; they literally made the ground themselves. In this, however, they were helped by the fact that 1926 was the year of the General Strike, and so most local people had plenty of time on their hands. 

The club took over the ownership of the ground, aided significantly by a grant from the Miners Welfare organisation. This is when the modern history of the club commenced. At the start it was played in the Wakefield League, Denby Grange League and t (this must have been copied & pasted as this is how the text ends on the website)

Note to Flockton Football Club, cut the grass

Pledwick Cricket Club

Pledwick Cricket Club has two senior sides in the Pontefract and District Cricket League. The First XI plays in Division 4 after winning division 5 last season, whilst a youthful Second XI narrowly missed out on promotion from Division 7. Matches are 46 overs per innings maximum played on Saturday afternoons. We have a thriving Junior Section from U9 to U17 all of which have enjoyed great success in recent years and many league representative call-ups. 

The club also has a side that plays on a Sunday in the Last Man Stands League this is 8 aside and is played in coloured clothing this is treated more as social cricket and is open to people that cant always commit to Saturday cricket which takes all day. 

We currently has Under 9,11,13, 15 & 17 sides in the local junior leagues. Games are played on Sunday mornings, Thursdays, Sunday mornings, Mondays and Wednesdays respectively and practice on Monday evenings. We are Clubmark accredited and have a number of ECB qualified coaches. All our coaches have been checked in line with CRB requirements. For more information contact Andy Green, our junior manager. 

If you are interested in joining please contact us - we are open to members of all ages. 

Lepton Highlanders Cricket Club

Not a vast amount of info available on Lepton Highlanders.
A shame given the impressive entrance to the ground, which was just a shed in a field a few years ago.

CRICKET & FOOTBALL AT THE HIGHLANDERS
Our Junior Cricket & Football teams all play in the local Huddersfield leagues.
Senior Cricket play in the Drakes Huddersfield League.
Senior Football have teams in the Huddersfield & District, Yorkshire Amateur League & West Riding County Amateur League
https://www.huddersfieldcricketleague.co.uk/pages/clubs-lepton-highlanders
https://leptonhighlanders.play-cricket.com/


Even bigger shame when this is one of the first pages shown when employing the services of Captain Google. From the Examiner Website

D M of Lepton Highlanders banned for rest of season by Drakes Huddersfield Cricket League

23 JUL 2015
Lepton Highlanders player D M has been banned for the rest of the season by Drakes Huddersfield Cricket League disciplinary chiefs.
The 41-year-old – who has been keeping wicket for Lepton’s first team in the Cedar Court Conference this season – has been suspended for using foul and abusive language towards umpires.
It’s a repeat offence for the player – formerly a bowler who has also played with Hoylandswaine and Lascelles Hall – hence the ban being eight weeks long.
It runs from midnight tomorrow to midnight on Thursday, September 17 – effectively ruling M out of cricket this summer because the Drakes season wraps up on Saturday, September 12.
During the period of the ban, M is not eligible to play in another league or competition operating under the England & Wales Cricket Board or the Yorkshire Cricket Board.

Carlton Cricket Club (Wakefield ish)

Another club with more history on the Bradford League website than their own

Carlton history

Carlton's side which won the 1973 Leeds League Hepworth Cup

The Early Days
Carlton, meaning “town of the churls” (common agricultural people), is a small and undeveloped village just on Rothwell’s doorstep. Sport has always played an important part in the history of Carlton and its inhabitants. The rural sports fields, set in between acres of picturesque farmland, have been at the heart of the village for more than 150 years.
The earliest known reference to sport in the village goes back to 1867 when a cricket team from Carlton made only 33 runs against a team from nearby Lofthouse. Back in those days cricket was played on Dick Marshall’s field in the far side of Pitfield Road, now Ashton Crescent. He also gave the team a lift to away matches by horse-drawn wagonette for a shilling a head.
1922 saw a huge turn in the sporting fortunes of the village when twelve newly appointed trustees of Carlton Athletic Club bought the current Town Street ground from Major Calverley of Oulton Hall. The new five-acre site was to embrace both football and cricket, a philosophy that still stands today.
The agreed price of £275, a substantial sum in the 1920s, was a great investment for the future of sport in the village for generations to come. Construction of the new cricket ground was a mammoth task and the whole village got involved.
Colliery owners, J & J Charlesworth, offered a welcome loan and funds were raised through house-to-house collections and special concerts. Building materials were brought in from adjoining villages, local farmers supplied turf and willing volunteers provided much needed labour. By 1926 the new cricket ground was ready for action.
Ken Oldroyd, fourth generation owner of Oldroyd’s Farm and President of Carlton Cricket Club for 31 years had seen both the area and the cricket blossom during his reign.
A founder member of the Woodlesford and District League in 1893, Carlton Cricket Club moved to various leagues, but it was the Leeds League that would make their name.

Leeds League success
In 1941 Carlton won their first major trophy when they lifted the Hepworth Cup- the premier cup competition in the Leeds League. In the Roundhay Park Final the club beat Whitwood with Billy Newton starring with 57 runs and a bowling analysis of 7-16.
Although they had twenty years to wait for their next success their record in the competition is nothing short of phenomenal.
There was no team trophy in 1957, but Carlton’s best batsman Arthur Sweet won the League Batting Averages that year.
During the sixties Carlton won the Hepworth Cup in 1961, 1963 and 1967, and the title for the first time in 1965. They were a dominant force in the league and it would continue in the next three decades.
The 1961 Hepworth Cup Final was played at Headingley against Lofthouse. Played over two weekday nights the local rivalry was intense. Lofthouse batted first and scored a competitive 206-6 with occasional bowler Jack Field taking 3-31. The run-chase was always in doubt despite a robust 67 from No.6 Jack Fox, and it was left to the last wicket pairing of Alan Wright and Peter Clayton to make a stand of 28 to take their team to victory by one wicket.
Colin Lumb, who formed a formidable opening attack with Alam Wright had a remarkable season in 1963 taking 94 wickets.
In the 1967 Hepworth Cup final win Derek Mattinson was the hero with a bowling spell of 6-26 against Normanton.
In the seventies they did not win the league but found consolation in the Hepworth Cup by winning it in 1973, 1975, 1978 and 1979. In 1973 they had a cup double by virtue of winning the H J Knutton Trophy. This competition was between senior clubs in the West Yorkshire area containing many fine players, and was considered a prestige trophy to win.
In 1979 Keith Taylor (115*) and Keith Sampson (100*) took part in a record undefeated opening stand of 234 v Woodhouse, but ended on the losing side.
Carlton’s dominant batsman of the seventies was Taylor who won the League Batting Averages in 1971, 1979 and later in 1986. His best season was 1979 when he scored 1.280 runs at 64.0. In between his seventies triumphs his colleague Mick Fletcher also won this award in 1974.
Another individual trophy winner was Brian Ramsden who won the League Wicket-Keepers Trophy in 1976. Ramsden played in 10 Hepworth Cup Finals between 1963 and 1983 keeping wickets in eight matches and on the winning side on nine occasions.

Continued success in the eighties
The team cycle of success continued into the next decade when it got even better. They began the eighties with three Hepworth Cups in 1980, 1981 and 1982 to take the tally to five successive cup wins. There was a double of sorts when in 1981 they also won the Leeds `B’ Division.
The architect of the 1980 cup final win against Colton was David Fairburn who scored an unbeaten 76.
Clearly the overall strength of the club was strong with the 2X1 winning the League & Wood Cup double in 1983 which replicated the same feat in 1965 and 1970.
After winning the Leeds League for the second time in 1985, they reached their pinnacle in the following season when they retained their title and also took the Hepworth Cup to be double winners of 1986. This was the end of trophies for this decade, but the six they won re-confirmed their status of the dominant club in the league.
The decade’s big players were Glen Cooper, who won the League Batting Averages in 1982 and 1987, Keith Sampson who preceded this feat in 1981 with an average of 53.77, and David Cooper who took the League Bowling prize in 1987. Paul Stanyard, who took over 1000 career wickets in the First Team for the club, had his best season in 1981 with 77.
During 1988 the league won acclaim by Nostell Cricket Club’s inclusion of Australian test batsman Dean Jones in their ranks. When they visited Carlton, Jones launched several stunning shots until the gentle medium pace of Malcolm Baddeley deceived him and got him out LBW. Carlton went on to win the match, and later in the season complete the double over Nostell.
The nineties dawned and it was business as usual at Carlton with title wins in 1991 and 1996, and Hepworth Cups sandwiched between in 1992 and 1995. Individual winners were Paul Tasker who won the League Bowling Averages in 1996 and Andrew Court who took the League Wicket-Keepers Trophy in 1976.
The title winning side of 1991 contained the club’s first overseas player in 18-year old New Zealander Evan J Marshall. His native club side was Otago Volts.
The 1992 cup win against Colton featured a match-winning performance from Roy Sampson who took 6-43 to go with his innings of 30 runs. Keith Barrett also excelled with 58.
Batsman Mark Schofield had an inspired season in 1995 scoring 945 runs.

David Ripley’s century in the final

The 1995 Final victory against East Leeds was memorable for David Ripley’s undefeated 133. Ripley, a wicket-keeper/batsman, had joined the club in 1977, as an 11 year old, and went on to play in all the junior age groups. He played at Farsley and figured in the 1983 Priestley Cup Final win against Yorkshire Bank.
Ripley played for Northants in county cricket from 1984-2001 and is now the county coach. In his 307 first class games he scored 8,693 runs at 28.40 including nine centuries, and with the gloves took 678 catches and 85 stumpings. In 1968 he put on 404 runs for the fifth wicket with Mal Loye against Glamorgan.
Ironically, it was not until 1995 when county duties allowed him to make his Carlton First Team debut against local rivals Oulton.
In 1996 Andy Court won the Leeds League Wicket-Keeping award, and Mark Fairburn won the club barring averages scoring 800 runs..
Carlton had won 14 Hepworth Cups and five top flight titles and was one of the dominant forces of the league across several decades. However, the Leeds League began to decline with top clubs leaving or intending to do so. In 1998 the club took the big step to join the Central Yorkshire League.

Move to the Central Yorkshire League
Carlton CC exploded on the Central Yorkshire League scene in 1999 by winning the league’s prestigious Jack Hampshire Trophy. Feeding on their cup tradition they upset all the odds to beat red-hot favourites Methley in the Final.

The 1999 league campaign was spearheaded by Kevin Watson, above, who won the League Bowling Averages. Watson was a mean medium pace bowler who gave nothing away and would later find fame with the all conquering Wrenthorpe. He took over 500 career wickets in the First Team for the club, and had his best season in 2002 with 79.
In 2000, they continued their success story by winning the Division One title, largely based on the runs of Mohaddrin Kadri who topped the League Batting Averages. In addition, Carlton won the Yorkshire Council Supplementary Cup for 2000, and regained it in 2002.
When the Central Yorkshire League inserted a Premier League for their top division, clubs of substance yearned to be in it, and Carlton were no different. However, the higher standard cricket in the Premier League negated Carlton’s chances of replicating their successes in the Leeds League, and they struggled to make an impact and were duly relegated.
The foray into the Premier League in 2004 was notable for a remarkable match in late May against third place Northowram Fields. Skipper Mark Schofield feared his team’s score of 146-8 from 37 overs was 20 runs short, but their opponents were routed for nine. The destroyers were Kevin Watson with 4-5, and Phil Mullins who took 5-4.
Like most of their colleagues in the Central Yorkshire League, Carlton had forays into the Heavy Woollen Cup and in 2005 competed in a close encounter with Bradford League side Saltaire at Roberts Park.
Fast bowler Faisal Khan (5-42) bowled well enough to restrict Saltaire to 232. Carlton spearheaded by Steve Cooper (64) was well placed at 118-2, before falling short at 212.
In 2006 they won the Divisiion One title again, and coupled with this triumph that year was the Yorkshire Council Supplementary Cup in which they were getting a definite taste for.
The stars of 2006 were Cooper, who was the backbone of the batting with 568 runs at 40.57, and Neil Waite and Michael Roberts who took the lion’s share of the wickets, and figured in second and third places in the league bowling averages.A further relegation illustrated the difficulties of competing with the more affluent clubs.
In 2010 they won eleven matches in Div 1 but could not quite break back into the Premier league. Phil Page was the best batsman with 444 runs at 29.60 and a top score of 131*.
It was different in 2011 when promotion was obtained largely down to two individual performers who dominated in their respective field. Page again excelled but went to another level with 971 runs at 64.73 with a top score of 128, and in consequence won the League Batting Averages. This time the bowling had penetration in the hands of Jonathan Rudge, below, who took 46 wickets at 11.17 to take the League Bowling Averages.

The holy grail of the premier league had been reached and eight wins consolidated Carlton’s place in 2012 under the captaincy of Christopher Smith. The best bowler was again Rudge who picked up 32 wickets at 19.28.

Carlton’s finest premier league season
Carlton’s finest premier league season came in 2013 when twelve wins secured a high ranking finish. The bowling had more depth with Chris Leaf (51 wkts) and Rudge (50 wkts) being backed up by spinner Chris Kippax (29 wkts). Kiwi Jaycob Curtling was the pick of the batters with 531 runs.

Another player who played his part was 49-year old Simon Stirling, above, who scored 494 runs at 32.93. Stirling was an explosive cricketer in his pomp able to dictate games with bat and ball. He was quite a swift opening bowler capable of taking the early key wickets, and in 2004 took nine wickets for 2 runs versus Liversedge. With the bat he took on the bowlers with his special brand of power strokeplay.
Stirling was a native of New Zealand who played forty games for Manawatu. He settled in the UK starring for Rawdon, East Ardsley and Wakefield St Michaels, and latterly for Carlton.
In 2014, Carlton had to settle for seven wins in a season with few thrills. The best performers were Curtling who scored 485 runs at 34.64, and seamer James Glynn who took 33 wickets.
In what would prove to be the last year of the Central Yorkshire League, Carlton finished the 2015 season in ninth place. With the advent of the move to the Bradford League Championship, it was appropriate that they ended their era in this league as a Premier league club.
The cricketers that took the eye for Carlton were Stephen Cooper who scored 445 runs at 40.50 and Farrukh Alam who took 44 wickets.
The last Carlton First Team squad to participate in the Central Yorkshire League consisted of: Stephen Cooper, Farrukh Alam, Patrick Hinchliffe, Jonathan Hughes, Joshua Thurwell, Daniel Danby, Tom Taylor, Derrick Hammill, Gary Close.

Into the Bradford League
In a tough Championship B, it proved difficult for Carlton to challenge for promotion and they had to settle for six wins and a seventh position.
Farrukh Alam was their outstanding player, scoring 479 runs at 36.85, and also taking 33 wickets. Tom Taylor topped the division’s wicket-keeping with 29 victims.
A fine accolade for the club was the award of the Tom Mather’s Ground of the Year for 2016.
Carlton celebrated their 150th anniversary in 2017 with various events including a challenge match with MCC, and the publication of a booklet.

On the field they finished in a disappointing 8th after at one time lurking on the fringes of the promotion race. The most productive players were Christopher Wynd (486 runs), Joshua Thurwell (above, 52 wkts at 17.44), and all rounder Will Smith who contributed 331 runs and 27 wickets.
For the second consecutive year Tom Taylor topped the division’s wicket-keeping award with 33 victims.
They made a stuttering start to the 2018 season and had to settle for seventh place, despite some fine performances. On August 4th they beat Bowling Old Lane by 74 runs after scoring an impressive 330-6, with Arman Hussain unbeaten on 123. William Hayton ensured victory with a bowling spell of 6-34, as Old Lane fell short on 256.
Daniel White had a very promising first season after signing from South Milford, scoring 654 runs at 46.71. The best all round performer was Hussain who topped 500-runs with the bat, and took 36 wickets.

New Rover Cricket Club

Welcome to New Rover Cricket Club - formed in 1934, we are based in Adel, Leeds at The Richmond Oval. The club has 2 Senior sides that play in the Airedale Wharfedale Senior Cricket League, and a T20 side in the Headingley & District Evening League. We also run a growing junior section with teams at U9, U11, U13 and U15.

Please browse the website or visit our ground at LS16 8HF to find out more. 

Our bar is open every Saturday during the summer so why not pop along for a drink in the sun next time you are in the area, we would be delighted to welcome you to our club! 

If you would like to join our club or have any queries email newrovercc@hotmail.co.uk, tweet us @NewRoverCC or message us on Facebook.

Rothwell Cricket Club

Welcome to Rothwell CC’s Play-Cricket website !

Based just south of Leeds, we field two teams in the Pontefract & District Cricket League, with our 1st XI competing in the top division in 2019.
We are always delighted to welcome new members, of any age and in any capacity - playing, coaching, volunteering, spectating and especially socialising!
For more details and how to join, click on the ‘Contact Club’ link at the top and follow the instructions. Alternatively email rothwellcc@sky.com;



*** Week 8 washout***






*** Both sides were washed out last week, with the 1st XI not even getting to the ground. The 2nds travelled to Glasshoughton to try and 'get the game on' but eventually succumbed to the rain. Fingers crossed the current poor weather abates for the 1st XI to travel to South Kirby and Tim's army to host Whitley Bridge.***




& so far, that's all folks

Hopton Mills Cricket Club 1989

A New Dawn

In 1989 Hopton Mills Cricket Club was re-born. Of course, cricket had been played at Woodbottom for around a century previously, but 1989 did mark a new dawn. The merger was between Whitley Lower CC (the club whose home was Woodbottom) and Dewsbury & Savile CC (a very famous club, based in Savile Town, Dewsbury).
The merger was a complex affair. Woodbottom was the natural home for the new club, and the new name – ‘Hopton Mills CC’ – paid due respect to the geography and industrial history of Lower Hopton.

Central Yorkshire League

One of the main rationales of the ‘merger’ was the securing of major-league cricket at Woodbottom, and this was achieved when they were successful in their application to join the Central Yorkshire League.
In 1997 Hopton Mills languished in 10th position in the Second Division. Despite this mediocrity they possessed a player in I Ashgar who had a most productive season with bat and ball. Not only did he score 490 runs at 27.22 he also took 61 wickets at 15.33 with a best performance of 6-52 against East Ardsley.
Like most senior leagues the Central Yorkshire League formed a premier league from their top division, and this was the division the more ambitious clubs wanted to compete in.
In 2002 Hopton Mills came close in reaching their goal of the premier league when they finished third in the First Division. They had the services of an exceptional overseas batsman in Mohammed Bilal who scored a staggering 1,435 runs. Even more amazing was his record of eight successive centuries. This proved to be a false dawn for the club as they subsequently went on to drop a division. By 2010 Mills were still eyeing the premier league division but needed to get out of the Second division. However, they did not have the strength in depth despite good contributions from Paul Moorhouse (536 runs), Stephen Bland (527 runs) and Richard Myers (40 wickets).
In 2011 they managed to lure their former seamer Michael Carroll back from Wakefield St Michaels. He had performed the best bowling feat in the entire premier league in 2010 by taking 8-18, and it was anticipated he would spark a revival at Woodbottom. He certainly did,- taking 75 wickets at 9.33- the best haul in the entire division, and inspiring his team to promotion.
Carroll was not the only hero in a season that saw a late winning run with a string of successive victories. The leading batters were Chris Scott who scored 567 runs at 40.50, and Mark Ashton who also topped the 500-runs mark and scored the division’s highest score with 162 not out.
Hopton Mills recorded 12 wins in the First Division in 2012 with all-rounder Samuel Gardiner having a virtuoso season. He scored 685 runs at 52.69 and also took 47 wickets at 16.47. Carroll was the leading bowler with 49 wickets at 14.10.

Promotion to the premier league
At last the holy grail of the premier league was achieved when Hopton Mills secured promotion in the 2013 season with an impressive 16 wins. They sealed promotion by beating Oulton by 38 runs in September with Tahmidul Islam (63 runs and 3-18) and Richard Myers (5-37) being the match-winners.
The batting was built on the sheet anchor batsman Chris Scott who managed 506 runs at 33.73. Carroll was again the senior bowler with 41 wickets at 12.00 including an analysis of 6-7. Another key performance was from Tahmidul Islam who contributed 552 runs and 34 wickets. The 17-year old Islam, who played for Sydney’s Western Suburbs travelled from Australia to play a season for Hopton Mills to advance his development.
Hopton Mills duly qualified for the Yorkshire Council play-offs falling at the first hurdle in the Supplementary Competition when they lost by seven wickets at home to Darfield (South Yorkshire League). Chris Scott made 84 of Hopton’s 195-9 in 45 overs but the visitors romped home with 17 overs to spare.
Significant investment in facilities
2013 marked a significant investment in the club when Sport England provided a grant of £46,200 to build new spacious dressing rooms. Yorkshire player Alex Lees did the honour of officially opening the new facility on May 20th 2015.
The premier league proved to be too tough for them in 2014 with only Carroll standing up to scrutiny with 41 wickets at 17.39.
Determined to return at the first time of asking they were pacesetters for promotion in 2015 with Liversedge. By the half way stage of the season the promotion aim became something very different when news filtered through that the Central Yorkshire League clubs were joining an enlarged Bradford League in 2016. The later aim was to finish as title winners to secure a place in the Bradford League Championship rather than the lower Conference.

The fact that they succeeded was down to a powerful batting side that piled the runs on throughout the season. Stephen Bland won the league batting averages with 485 runs at 44.09, and he enjoyed able assistance from Ashley Mackereth (above, 718 runs), Neil Brown (601 runs) and the consistent Scott (554 runs). Again, Carroll was the most prolific wicket-taker.
The two constants in the Hopton Mills side were Chris Scott and Michael Carroll who could rightfully be described as the backbone of the team in this era.
James Glover finished second in the League Wicketkeeping for the third occasion in four seasons- such was his consistency.
Another major happening in 2015 came when Yorkshire’s former England bowler Ryan Sidebottom officially opened enhanced practice facilities prior to the season’s start on Sunday, January 25. Club officials had secured a grant of £46,000 from Biffa Award to breathe new life into its practice facilities.
With Paul Moorhouse skippering the Second Team to two successive promotions Hopton Mills cricket infrastructure had an undisputed depth.

Drainage problem
Before the season started Hopton tackled a drainage problem at their Woodbottom Ground. In a bid to cure water logging a work force of 20 players and members laid a new drainage pipe the full width of their outfield to get the water away. The trench had to be back filled with pea gravel before the turf was relaid.

Into the Bradford League Championship
On the field, Hopton Mills found the going tough in Championship B and only recorded six victories. Their strength was definitely their batting with South African Louren Steenkamp scoring 514 runs at 30.24, with a top score of 171* against Hartshead Moor. The best of the rest was Ashley Mackereth (349 runs) and Chris Scott (372 runs).
There was little progress on the field in 2017 as the club recorded seven wins to finish 10th in Championship 2. The most productive player was Umar Abbas who took 45 wickets at 20.58, and also scored 350 runs. The ever consistent Scott (527 runs) and Carroll (42 wickets) continued to show their worth to the side.
The club fell a place to eleventh in 2018 despite figuring in some highly competitive games. Despite their erratic form they were a dangerous side, and proved it by beating the two promoted sides.
On July 14th they showed their true ability by beating Keighley by 29-runs. They set a challenging total of 283-7 after Scott (91 runs) and Abbas (76 runs) had shown the way, and then bowled their opponents out for 254 with Carroll taking 5-54. They completed their fixtures with a win over Wakefield St Michael’s and in doing so prevented them from winning the title.
Scott made 604 league runs at 37.75, and Mackereth, Abbas and Mark Ashton all topped 400-runs, while Carroll (44 wkts) was the main strike bowler.