Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen major county cricket clubs in England, representing the county of Yorkshire.
Most of the games YCCC plays at home take place at the Headingley Carnegie Stadium in Leeds. However, Yorkshire also plays some home games at North Marine Road in Scarborough.
Historically, Yorkshire Cricket has also been based at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, Horton Park Avenue in Bradford, St George’s Ground in Harrogate, Anlaby Road in Hull, and Acklam Park in Middlesbrough. Since the Club was established, it has played host at over 20 different grounds!
The club was established on 8 January 1863 in the Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield, at the meeting of the Sheffield Match Fund Committee. Early matches were at Bramall Lane, but in 1888 the Cricket Club based themselves Headingley in Leeds, where the club played its first game in 1891.
Six years later, the Yorkshire County Cricket Club played against Warwickshire at Birmingham and scored the highest result recorded in county cricket, 887 runs.
From 1900 to 1902 the club played eighty Championship matches and lost just two games.
Until the Second World War, Yorkshire Cricket Club was the dominant force in the County Championship, winning twenty-five of their games in 1923. The player Wilfred Rhodes made most of the scores in these matches and in his final season, at the age of fifty three, took 73 wickets and scored 478 runs.
Len Hutton, another amazing player, scored a world record of 354 runs against Australia at the Oval and became England’s first professional captain.
In 1963 the Yorkshire County Cricket Club won the Championship, having one of the great county teams, including the famous cricketing names Brian Close, Doug Padgett, Geoff Boycott, Ray Illingworth, Jack Hampshire and Fred Trueman.
After more than four hundred class matches the first home of Yorkshire CCC, Bramall Lane, was closed in 1973.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club forbade players to play for them who were not born within the county of Yorkshire, or to be part of the club. This rule was described as ‘act of racism’ and was stopped in 1992. Since then players such as Michael Vaughan (who was only educated within Yorkshire), Sachin Tendulkar (Indian) and Michael Bevan (Australian) became part of the club.
In 2001 in a match against Glamorgan at Scarborough the club won its first County Championship since 1968, and finished 2006 without losing a game.
Over the years the Yorkshire County Cricket Club has won thirty one championships and five major trophies, which makes it the best and most successful cricket club in the world.
Address:
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground
St Michael’s Lane
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS6 3BU
Tel: 0113 278 7394