crawhall made his debut for northumberland in the 1962 minor counties championship against the lancashire second xi. crawhall played minor counties cricket for northumberland from 1961 to 1979, which included 164 minor counties championship appearances. he made his list a debut against lincolnshire in the 1971 gillette cup. he made 2 further list a appearances for northumberland, against bedfordshire and somerset, both in the 1977 gillette cup. in his 3 list a matches for the county, he scored 82 runs at an average of 41.00, with a high score of 66. this score came against lincolnshire in 1971.