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Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club, who represent the historic county of Yorkshire, are one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure. Their limited overs team is called the Yorkshire Phoenix.
The club plays most of their home games at the Headingley Carnegie Stadium, Leeds. The club have another significant venue at North Marine Road, Scarborough, which houses the annual Scarborough Festival. Yorkshire has also played games around the county at various locations: notably at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, which was the club's original home; Horton Park Avenue, Bradford; St George's Ground, Harrogate; Anlaby Road, Hull; and Acklam Park, Middlesbrough.
Yorkshiremen are regarded as fanatical in their support of their native county, and in cricketing matters especially. The famous 'Roses Matches against Lancashire are second only to Anglo-Australian Tests in terms of history, tradition and competitiveness.
Yorkshire CCC was famous for insisting that its players must have been born within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire, a rule not dropped until 1992, and Yorkshire's results suffered through the seventies and eighties as other counties raced to sign major overseas stars.
Due to a lack of playing success, this rule was firstly modified to allow those educated within the County to play (a dispensation used by Michael Vaughan) and then abandoned altogether. Sachin Tendulkar was the first player to take advantage of this new freedom and, incidentally, was the first Asian to be selected for Yorkshire, when he played as an overseas player. Other overseas players to have worn the famous white rose cap include Australian middle order batsmen Michael Bevan and Darren Lehmann, Australian paceman Jason Gillespie and West Indian Richie Richardson.
Yorkshire Facts and Feats
The batsman with the highest average for Yorkshire CCC is not Geoff Boycott, Len Hutton or Herbert Sutcliffe. In 88 first-class matches, Darren Lehmann scored 8,532 runs at an average of 68.77 including 26 first-class centuries. In his final innings for the county in September 2006, he made 339, two shy of George Hirst's all time county record. It was the first triple hundred by a Yorkshire batsman since Herbert Sutcliffe at Leyton in 1932.
Yorkshire posted 356 for 8 declared against Northamptonshire CCC in 1905 and then bowled them out for 27 and 15. George Hirst took 12 for 19 and Schofield Haigh 6 for 19.
555, the most famous stand in county history, was posted by Percy Holmes (224*) and Herbert Sutcliffe (313) against Essex CCC on June 16, 1932. After Holmes had been dropped on 3, the pair compiled the 555 in 445 minutes, beating the 554 of fellow Yorkshiremen Jack Brown and John Tunnicliffe. There was a ripple of panic when the score was reassessed as 554 for 1 but a 'no ball' was found and the final total restored to the new record mark. Bill Bowes and Hedley Verity then bowled Essex out for 78 and 164.
Len Hutton scored a record 1,294 runs in June 1949 despite 3 consecutive ducks.
The club plays most of their home games at the Headingley Carnegie Stadium, Leeds. The club have another significant venue at North Marine Road, Scarborough, which houses the annual Scarborough Festival. Yorkshire has also played games around the county at various locations: notably at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, which was the club's original home; Horton Park Avenue, Bradford; St George's Ground, Harrogate; Anlaby Road, Hull; and Acklam Park, Middlesbrough.
Yorkshiremen are regarded as fanatical in their support of their native county, and in cricketing matters especially. The famous 'Roses Matches against Lancashire are second only to Anglo-Australian Tests in terms of history, tradition and competitiveness.
Yorkshire CCC was famous for insisting that its players must have been born within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire, a rule not dropped until 1992, and Yorkshire's results suffered through the seventies and eighties as other counties raced to sign major overseas stars.
Due to a lack of playing success, this rule was firstly modified to allow those educated within the County to play (a dispensation used by Michael Vaughan) and then abandoned altogether. Sachin Tendulkar was the first player to take advantage of this new freedom and, incidentally, was the first Asian to be selected for Yorkshire, when he played as an overseas player. Other overseas players to have worn the famous white rose cap include Australian middle order batsmen Michael Bevan and Darren Lehmann, Australian paceman Jason Gillespie and West Indian Richie Richardson.
Yorkshire Facts and Feats
The batsman with the highest average for Yorkshire CCC is not Geoff Boycott, Len Hutton or Herbert Sutcliffe. In 88 first-class matches, Darren Lehmann scored 8,532 runs at an average of 68.77 including 26 first-class centuries. In his final innings for the county in September 2006, he made 339, two shy of George Hirst's all time county record. It was the first triple hundred by a Yorkshire batsman since Herbert Sutcliffe at Leyton in 1932.
Yorkshire posted 356 for 8 declared against Northamptonshire CCC in 1905 and then bowled them out for 27 and 15. George Hirst took 12 for 19 and Schofield Haigh 6 for 19.
555, the most famous stand in county history, was posted by Percy Holmes (224*) and Herbert Sutcliffe (313) against Essex CCC on June 16, 1932. After Holmes had been dropped on 3, the pair compiled the 555 in 445 minutes, beating the 554 of fellow Yorkshiremen Jack Brown and John Tunnicliffe. There was a ripple of panic when the score was reassessed as 554 for 1 but a 'no ball' was found and the final total restored to the new record mark. Bill Bowes and Hedley Verity then bowled Essex out for 78 and 164.
Len Hutton scored a record 1,294 runs in June 1949 despite 3 consecutive ducks.
