22ndMay
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Club Captain: Darren Gough
Leagues: LV County Championship - Division One, Friends Provident Trophy: North Conference
Limited Overs Team Name: Yorkshire Phoenix
Ground
Yorkshire plays most of their home games at the Headingley Carnegie Stadium, Leeds. England usually play at Headingly after the first test at Lords of each Enlish Summer. In the 1977 Ashes test (against Australia), Geoff Boycott scored his hundredth first-class hundred. In 2000, England dismissed the West Indies for 61 to win by an innings, with Andrew Caddick taking four wickets in an over.
Capacity: 17,000
Address: Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground, Leeds, LS6 3BU
End Names: Kirkstall Lane End, Football Stand End.
Honours
- Champion County (2) - 1867, 1870; shared (1) - 1869
- County Championship (30) - 1893, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1905, 1908, 1912, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1946, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 2001; shared (1) - 1949
- Gillette/NatWest/C&G Trophy (3) - 1965, 1969, 2002
- Sunday/National League (1) - 1983
- Benson & Hedges Cup (1) - 1987
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