Please read the Club Cricket News Club Cricket Matters Cricket Club Profiles. ... and Yorkshire tied a thriller at Emerald Headingley. Birtwhistle Cup victories came in 1986, 1994 and 2019 for the Second XI.Fundraising has always played an integral part of the club, ensuring the day to running of the club during the long winter months waiting for the spring to come in April. In order that players can be responsible for their own kits, however, white kit … The caveat is that it will be red-ball cricket … Two more wins in 1992 and 1993 were followed by relegation, a sad time attributed to simultaneous retirements of key players. The home team scored 163 with the England XI replying with 172. Warwickshire and Yorkshire Vikings fought out a thrilling tie in the sunshine in their Royal London Cup tussle at Edgbaston. Panesar took the first five wickets, and despite partnerships of 50 for the seventh and eight wicket, Brown ended Yorkshire's innings with five of his own. After the Leicestershire loss, they drew with A total of 47 overs were possible in the next two days, as Essex moved on to 394 for 4 – losing two men to Hoggard. They started the County Championship poorly, being on the wrong end of a draw with Essex. They started the County Championship poorly, being on the wrong end of a draw with Another loss followed, a humiliating one to Lancashire in the inaugural Twenty20 match, before winning a close second game, against Yorkshire's last Championship match of August was their eighth draw of the season and the fourth in a row against A busy September month, including eight matches, did not yield a single victory. It backfired spectacularly. Enter Site; Buy Membership; Fixtures; Enter Site; Conference & Events; Make an enquiry These stats add to what was an incredible career for smith, who dominated the league averages throughout his playing career. All these added together ensure that Smith will is the most successful all-rounder the Airedale and Wharfedale Senior Cricket League has seen. 1974 cam next then five time in the next decade, 4 in a row from 1985 to 1988, with 1982 the other championship won in the decade. In 1820 the club played on the ground now occupied by the cemetery and did not move to the present ground of Cross Green until 1862.For the first 73 years of the Club’s existence they played matches of a friendly nature only and it was not until 1893 that Otley joined the Wharfedale and Airedale League. In 1881 an England XI playing against an Otley and District representative team. Cricket Yorkshire will aim to feature more leagues from across the region in the next month. Although no batsman passed 50, Yorkshire's scoring rate was, again, slow, and their second innings yielded 278 runs in nearly nine hours – though it was also frequently interrupted by rain. This started what would be an incredible next seven years for Otley Cricket Club. During the same year as Davies’ incredible achievement (2013), G.Wolfenden scored 1,105 runs at an average of 65. From this low scoring game in 1892 Otley scored 277-2 against Bowling Old Lane in 1897. In the 1870s Ted Wilkinson took 5 wickets in 5 balls against Rotherham and W.H.Barker topped the bowling averages in his first season in 1875, with an average of under 5. However, the honour of being the first man to score a century on the Otley ground went to Joe Mason who made his century in 1882 against Skipton.
To finish off the day, the Otley and District side batted again and scored 96, with Flaxington of Yeadon scoring 70 of them!In 1889 Otley and Colne tied a match with 68 runs each. There have been numerous notable performances in 200 years, non-more so than A.Laycock in 1937 when he took 100 wickets at an average of 6.66. At 6–1 odds to win the Second Division of the County Championship, they were likely to struggle again – as they had done since they won the First Division championship in 2001.. 1820 is regarded as the year in which Otley Cricket Club was founded though there are records indicating that some cricket was played in Otley before this date. There was something of a quite patch during the late nineties and early noughties. For this he was given £2 2shillings per week and a benefit every season. Leeds scored 68 (16 extras) and Otley replied with 251 for 9 including 50 extras. Wood (48), Jaques (37), In the clash of the two top teams of Division Two of the Championship, In reply, Durham were in a spot of bother at 146 for 6, but a partnership worth 126 between Despite McGrath's big score, Durham were only set 245 to win in well over a day. There were many outstanding feats performed by Otley players in the years prior to the First World War. There is also a reference to a match against Leeds Coburg which Otley won by 10 wickets, a second match against them is also recorded. In the latest edition of our weekly look back through the T&A picture archives, here are three Eccleshill Cricket Club teams from years gone by. After bowling Bilton out for 72 runs, Otley limped over the line with one wicket to spare, finishing on 74 for 9.Current Chairman and former Club Captain C.P.Smith achieved a double century against Adel in the Waddilove Cup, this is thought to have been the first double century to have been scored in any Yorkshire Cricket League competition. Do you remember any of the players? As history become more recent, memories click into place.