Makin, who still plays cricket in the Cockspur Cup with Hyde as of the 2008 season, made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Cheshire in 2002, and made his only List A appearance in the C&G Trophy in September 2002.
Makin, who played club cricket with Hyde to the 2013 season, made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Cheshire in 2002 and appeared four times in that season and the next. He made his only List A appearance in the 2003 C&G Trophy in a match against Lincolnshire that took place at the end of the previous season, in September 2002.