Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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Yorkshire County Cricket Club
One-day name Yorkshire Vikings
founded 1863
Home stadium Headingley Stadium
capacity 17,500
other stages North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough
Championship wins 33 + 1 shared
One Day Cup victories FP Trophy : 3
National League : 1
B&H Cup : 1
ECB 40 : 1
RL Cup : 0
T20 Cup victories 0
website https://yorkshireccc.com
As of August 28, 2016

The Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the traditional county Yorkshire in the national championships in English cricket . With 34 County Championship wins today, the club is the most successful first-class cricket team in England.

history

The beginning in Sheffield

Cricket at Darnall New Ground between 1821 and 1826

At the beginning of the 18th century, cricket began to be played more and more in Yorkshire and also to organize. Cricket fields were built in Sheffield , including Darnall Old Ground (1822), Darnall New Ground (1824), Hyde Park (1826) and finally Bramall Lane Stadium in 1855 . Teams that represented Yorkshire and also played first-class games competed on these. The first on record today is a game against Norfolk in September 1833. Also in Hyde Park, the first Roses Match , the traditional game against rivals Lancashire , took place for the first time in July 1849, which Yorkshire won with five wickets. After there were efforts from 1861 to better organize the activities, the County Club was founded on January 8, 1863 at a meeting of the Sheffield Match Fund Committee in the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield. The first president was T. R. Barker, who did not attend a meeting himself and so he was replaced in the same year by Michael Ellison , who ran the club until 1898. The Yorkshire CCC played their first first-class match in June 1863 in Surrey , which ended in a draw. Players at the time were playing for a game fee of five pounds and were expected to pay for their own travel and meals. In 1865 five of the top players refused to play Surrey because they did not agree to the team's action in a game that did not include Yorkshire. The consequence of this was that the club played no games that year and no games were organized for the following year. The team's first captain was Roger Iddison , who became County Champion with the team in 1867 and 1870. In 1873, qualifying rules were established for players who required that they either be born in the county or reside there for at least two years. These rules also prevented a player from playing for two county clubs at the same time, as Iddison did for Lancashire and Yorkshire, for example. The following years were unsteady and Yorkshire was not very successful during this period.

The years of Lord Hawke

Lord Hawke 1893

This only changed when Lord Hawke joined the team in 1881. At first he submitted to the captain Tom Emmett , but this led to some problems shortly afterwards. He then became captain himself in 1883 and remained so until 1910. His autocratic leadership style caused great upheaval in the club. Even from a privileged family, and thus nominally an amateur (or gentleman as it was called at the time), he ensured that the conditions of his professional fellow players ("players") improved, especially financially. He also enforced that only players were appointed to the team who were born in Yorkshire. At the same time he broke the dominance of Sheffield and so since 1891 a part of the County Championship games was played in the newly built Headingley Stadium in Leeds . All of this made the team grow stronger and so Yorkshire first won the County Championship in 1893 . In the following years Yorkshire dominated English cricket. After the championship was won in the 19th century in 1896 and 1898 , the team even won the championship three times in a row between 1900 and 1902 ( 1900 , 1901 , 1902 ). Shortly before the war, the dominance weakened a little. They won three more times ( 1905 , 1908 and 1912 ), but also achieved seventh and eighth places in 1910 and 1911 , the worst results in 20 years. The players George Hirst and Wilfred Rhodes , who led the team both as bowlers and batsman , played a major role . Hawke financially ensured that the club received a better income situation. In 1902 he was appointed president as the captain still in office and arranged for the stadiums in which the club played to be rented. Until then, the city that played a first-class game organized the games, but kept all profits.

Between the world wars

After World War I ended, Yorkshire won the first edition of the County Championship in 1919 . Between 1922 and 1925 they lost only six games in 122 matches and secured the championship in a row for four years ( 1922 , 1923 , 1924 , 1925 ). Important players were next to Rhodes, who only ended his career in 1931, Emmott Robinson . At the end of the 1920s there were no great successes, but the CCC began a very successful period in 1931. Players like almost bowler Bill Bowes , spin bowler Hedley Verity, and inaugural batsmans Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes led the club to seven championships in nine years ( 1931 , 1932 , 1933 , 1935 , 1937 , 1938 and 1939 ). Verity managed to play the best bowling performance in one innings to date in a game against Nottingham when he only allowed 10 runs out of 10 (and thus all) won wickets . In the same season Sutcliffe and Holmes succeeded in a game against Essex with 555 runs, the highest partnership in English first-class cricket to date . Between the world wars, the team has won a total of twelve championships in 21 years and achieved no worse placement than fifth place (from 15-17 teams) in the County Championship during that time.

post war period

After the interruption of the Second World War, the team succeeded in winning the championship again in 1946 and sharing it with Middlesex in 1949 . The 1950s were unsuccessful and players and the public alike were very dissatisfied with the performances. Overall, the team achieved four second places in this decade ( 1951 , 1952 , 1954 , 1955 ), but in between ( 1953 ) only once in twelfth place and thus the worst position since the club was founded. The low point was the expulsion of spin bowler and national player Johnny Wardle in the 1958 season after he had criticized the club's management in the Daily Mail newspaper . He was then removed from the national team and was given no opportunity to play any more first-class cricket in and for England. However, changes were made and success returned. The first championship in ten years took place in 1959 . In 1960 the club determined with Fred Trueman for the first time a professional captain and the title win could be repeated. With Geoffrey Boycott a new important batsman came to the team in 1962 and so Trueman was able to win the championship again. He was succeeded in 1963 by Brian Close who repeated the championship in his first season as captain. After one-day cricket was introduced in 1963 , the team was able to win the Gilette Cup for the first time in 1965 . The team then achieved three consecutive wins of the County Championship between 1966 and 1968 ( 1966 , 1967 , 1968 ), making them the most successful team of the decade. Players like all-rounders Ray Illingworth and Bowler ( Geoff Cope , Don Wilson and Anthony Nicolson ) were the driving force alongside Boycott. The last title for a long time was the second win of the Gillette Cup in 1969 .

Years of failure

Yorkshire County Cricket Club performance in First Class, One-Day and T20 Cricket in the English National Competitions.

After the successes, the team disintegrated in just a few years. It all started with Illingworth, who had played for the club for 27 years and asked Brian Sellers, then chairman of the selection committee, for a new three-year contract. This refused and so Illingworth left Yorkshire to become captain in Leicestershire . Captain Brian Close was, because of internal disputes with the team management, surprisingly kicked out of the team in 1970 at the end of the season and went to Somerset . Geoffrey Boycott was appointed as the new captain, who was initially informed that Close had resigned and only later found out that the separation had been initiated by the selection committee. Changing cricket has been a problem for Yorkshire. The club insisted on its recruiting policy that only provided Yorkshire-born players and did not renounce to sign a player from overseas like other teams. Also, 76 members of parliament campaigned to adapt the Race Relations Act so that Yorkshire could maintain its policy, because despite numerous Yorkshire-born players with Asian backgrounds, none made it into the team. The club also continued to rely on first-class cricket and was therefore hardly competitive in the three one-day competitions. The captain Geoffrey Boycott even sat on the national team for three years to help Yorkshire, but this did not lead to further success. Except for a second place in 1975 in the County Championship, hardly anything had been achieved in that decade and they mostly played in the middle of the table. In addition, there were numerous member uprisings, which Boycott further fueled. Due to unsuccessfulness, Boycott was removed as captain by the selection committee in 1978. In 1973 the Bramall Lane Stadium in Sheffield was converted into a pure football stadium and thus unusable for cricket.

Time of change

The 1980s began similarly to what the previous decade had ended, and so there was a great change in 1983. Boycott, like other players, was previously fired from the selection committee, after which the members of the club removed the selection committee. Illingworth, who had returned the previous year, was declared the new captain at the age of 51. Close and Boycott were appointed to the new selection committee and so Boycott received the previously failed new contract. In addition to the scandals, the team under Illingworth managed to win the John Player Special League in 1983 . On the last day of the match a game in Chelmsford , which was canceled due to rain, was enough to win the championship. However, the first-class season was bad for the team so that they were bottom of the table for the first time. Another one-day success followed in 1987 in the Benson & Hedges Cup , but the bottom half of the table was left only once in the 1980s. This made it clear that something had to change. In 1992, the Lord Hawke introduced, strict qualification rules to play for Yorkshire were relaxed. This was primarily intended to enable Michael Vaughan , who was born in Manchester, and thus Lancashire, but grew up in Yorkshire, could play for the CCC. International players were also given access to the team, the first of which was Sachin Tendulkar . However, there was no immediate recovery and it took years for the County Championship to show better results. So the team achieved a second place in the 1998 County Championship.

Success bought dearly

With the start of the new millennium, Yorkshire was back at the top of the County Championship. After 33 years, the team managed to win the championship again in 2001 . While numerous players were injured or played in the national team, such as Darren Gough , Matthew Hoggard and Michael Vaughan, the team still managed to prevail. However, the price for this success was very high. Yorkshire made heavy losses, was able to win the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy in 2002 , but was relegated as the last of Division 1 in the 2002 County Championship . In 2003 the management had to be changed and numerous savings were made. In 2005 the Headingley Stadium cricket field was bought, which resulted in further high losses, but now brought the opportunity to earn money. In the same year he was promoted to the 1st division, from which one again relegated in 2011 . With the successful resurgence the following year , a second place in the Twenty20 Cup was achieved . This entitled to participation in the Champions League Twenty20 2012 , in which the team survived the qualification, but then came last in the group games. Andrew Gale has been the new captain of the team since 2010 and in addition to these successes, he managed to win the County Championship with his team in 2014 . However, he was not allowed to celebrate the win himself, as he was banned for the last two games of the season. In the following year the title was defended. As in the previous year, bowler Ryan Sidebottom played a key role in this.

Stadion

The club's home stadium is Headingley Stadium in Leeds . Another stadium that is used more frequently is the North Marine Road Ground in Scarborough. In addition, the Bramall Lane Stadium in Sheffield was used until 1973 .

successes

County cricket
One-day cricket
Twenty20

statistics

Runs

Most of the first-class cricket runs were scored by the following players:

player Playing times Runs
Herbert Sutcliffe 1919-1945 38,558
David Denton 1894-1920 33,383
Geoffrey Boycott 1962-1986 32,570
George Hirst 1891-1929 32,035
Wilfred Rhodes 1898-1930 31,098

Wickets

Most of the wickets in first-class cricket were scored by the following players:

player Playing times Runs
Wilfred Rhodes 1898-1930 3,597
George Hirst 1891-1929 2,477
Schofield Haigh 1895-1913 1,876
George Macaulay 1920-1935 1,774
Fred Trueman 1949-1968 1,745

Web links

Individual evidence

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