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31st

1983
Stuart FLETCHER made his debut versus Middlesex at Leeds

30th

1871
John Thomas MOUNSEY was born in Sheffield. He played for Yorkshire from 1891 to 1897 without his right-hand batting reaching the consistent level to justify a prolonged career in first-class cricket. His highest score, among his 1929 runs, was 64 versus Hampshire at Southampton on 1896. His runs were made at an average of 15.63 and his 10 wickets cost 444 runs.

1920
Percy HOLMES completed his innings of 302* versus Hampshire at Portsmouth. Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe added 347 for the first wicket, Yorkshire declared at 585 for 3 wkts and then bowled out Hampshire for 131 and 219 to win by an innings and 235 runs. Wilfred Rhodes had match figures of 11 for 129 to add to his 63*

1980
Jim LOVE was awarded his county cap

29th

1906
Yorkshire beat Somerset by 389 runs at Bath to record what is still their highest margin of victory by runs margin. This was the match in which George Hirst scored a century in each innings and took five wickets twice in the match - unique to this day

1910
Allen HILL died at Leyland aged 66

1945
Ted LESTER made his debut versus the Royal Air Force at Scarborough

28th

1873
The first day of the first first-class match to be played at Fartown, Huddersfield. It was versus Nottinghamshire in a non-championship match

1914
Alonzo DRAKE became the first Yorkshireman to take ten wickets in an innings in first-class cricket when he took 10 for 35 in 8.5 overs versus Somerset at Weston-super-Mare. These, added to the 5 for 16 he took in the first innings gave him match figures of 15 for 51. He and Major Booth bowled unchanged through both Somerset innings for Yorkshire to win by 140 runs
1998
Yorkshire beat Essex by 1 wicket at Scarborough to record their most recent one-wicket victory. It is of interest to note that Essex had last played at Scarborough in 1979 - when they lost by 1 wicket!

27th

1903
James ROTHERY made his debut versus MCC at Scarborough

1967
Harry HALLIDAY died at Wakefield aged 47.

26th

1866
John TUNNICLIFFE was born in Pudsey. He played 472 matches for Yorkshire from 1891 to 1907. Up to now only twelve players have scored more than his 19435 runs (at an average of 27.33) - which, at the time of his retirement, was the highest aggregate for any Yorkshire player. J T Brown (see 20th August) and John Tunnicliffe became one of the finest opening partnerships for Yorkshire but Tunnicliffe was not just a good opening batsman, his slip-catching was of the highest order and the 665 catches he took for the county remains the highest by any player (apart from wicket-keepers). His average of 1.4 catches per match is the highest of any who held over 300 catches. He held 70 catches
in the 1901 season - a record not equalled for Yorkshire until Philip Sharpe held the same number in 1962. Twice he took seven catches in a match - another Yorkshire record. He was coach at Clifton College for some fifteen years and died in Bristol in 1948

1963
David BYAS was born at Kilham. near Driffield. A tall, elegant, left-hand batsman he scored 14398 runs at 35.37 with a highest score of 213 versus Worcestershire in 1995 at his home ground of Scarborough. He captained the county from 1996 for 2001, his final season being crowned with Yorkshire winning the County Championship for the first time since 1968 and to give him one of the proudest moments of his life. Not only did he score a purposeful century in the match versus Glamorgan that clinched the Championship but he also held the final catch to bring back long lost glory to the White Rose county. What is it about slip-catching and the 26th August? In his 268 first-class games for the county he held 351 catches - an average of 1.3 per match and, in that respect, second only to John Tunnicliffe. Like Tunnicliffe he too held seven catches in a match - versus Derbyshire at Headingley in 2000. His retirement, and subsequent move to Lancashire, was a sad blow

1998
Gavin HAMILTON and Paul HUTCHISON were awarded their county caps

25th

1898
Arthur WOOD was born in Bradford. The fourth in the short line of Yorkshire wicket-keepers, Arthur Wood ’kept in 408 matches for Yorkshire from 1927 until 1946. An ebullient character, he took 612 catches and made 243 stumpings, and almost half of the stumpings were off Hedley Verity’s bowling.
His batting was not to be underestimated and he could always be relied upon in a crisis - not that there were many in the Yorkshire of the 1930’s!

24th

1891
The first day of the first first-class match played by Yorkshire at Headingley. The match was versus Kent and ended in a rain-ruined draw

1974
Richard LUMB was awarded his county cap

1976
Yorkshire made their highest fourth innings score to win in Yorkshire. The match was played at Middlesbrough, Glamorgan declaring their second innings leaving Yorkshire to make 318 to win. They got the runs for the loss of three wickets in 55.2 overs at 5.75 runs per over. Geoffrey Boycott made 156*, Jim Love 50, John Hampshire 38 and, crucially, Graham Stevenson 46*.

23rd

1938
Leonard Hutton completed his record-breaking score of 364 for England versus Australia
at The Oval

22nd

1938
Leonard HUTTON and Maurice LEYLAND completed their 2nd wicket partnership of 382 for England versus Australia at The Oval. This remains the record partnership for this wicket for England against all other countries

1970
Phil CARRICK made his debut versus Gloucestershire at Bristol

21st

1895
Geoffrey WILSON was born in Leeds. A Cambridge Blue in 1919, he made his debut for Yorkshire in the same season. He was captain of the county from 1922 to 1924. He struggled to make an impact as a batsman, making only 983 runs in his 94 innings for the county at an average of 12.28.

1935
Kenneth TAYLOR was born in Huddersfield. A talented right-hand batsman who joined with Bryan Stott to form a lucrative, and usually fast-scoring, opening partnership during the 1950’s-early 1960’s. He scored over 12000 runs for the county with a highest innings of 203* versus Warwickshire at Birmingham in 1961. He was also a successful soccer player, notably as a centre-half with Huddersfield Town. A reputable artist, his portraits of some of his contemporaries in the Yorkshire side are still in demand

1969
Chris OLD was awarded his county cap

20th

1869
John Thomas BROWN was born at Driffield. He, together with John Tunnicliffe, became one of the long line of successful opening partnerships for Yorkshire. They put on the then record partnership for the first wicket of 554 versus Derbyshire at Chesterfield in 1898, when Brown was out hit wicket for 300. This partnership exceeded their record 378 added the previous season versus Sussex at Sheffield, when Brown also made a triple century (311). In all, he scored 15694 runs at 29.83 in his 345 first-class matches for the county, with 23 centuries. He was also a more than useful leg-break bowler, taking 177 wickets at 29.28, with a best of 6 for 52 versus Sussex at Bradford in 1896. Although he made only 8 appearances in Test cricket, he scored the first 50 of his 140* in only 28 minutes in the 5th Test versus Australia at Melbourne in 1895. This remains the fastest 50 in Test cricket

1896
Arthur BAIRSTOW made his debut versus Sussex at Hove

1929
Herbert SUTCLIFFE completed his second century of the 5th Test versus South Africa at The Oval.
104 in the first innings was followed by 109* in the second, thus becoming the first batsman to score two hundreds in a Test match twice - the first was 176 and 127 versus Australia at Melbourne in January 1925

1938
Arthur WOOD made his debut in Test cricket versus Australia at The Oval

1983
Ashley METCALFE made his debut versus Nottinghamshire at Bradford, scoring 122 in an opening partnership of 248 with Geoffrey Boycott

19th

1898
At the end of the first day (18th August) of the match versus Derbyshire at Chesterfield Yorkshire were 503 for no wicket. John T Brown and John Tunnicliffe went on, next morning, the 19th, to complete their then record opening partnership of 554 (Brown 300 and Tunnicliffe 243). This record stood until the Holmes and Sutcliffe partnership of 555 in 1932

1953
England beat Australia by 8 wickets in the 5th Test at The Oval thus regaining the Ashes. Leonard Hutton was captain of England

1955
The last day of the last first-class match at Huddersfield. Fred Trueman took the last wicket to give him 7 for 30 in 12.5 overs (11 for 101 in the match), to put out Gloucestershire for 84 and secure a Yorkshire win by 67 runs. The final wicket was that of F P McHugh, who had left Yorkshire to play almost a hundred matches for Gloucestershire between 1952 and 1956

1993
Michael VAUGHAN made his debut versus Lancashire at Manchester

18th

1876
W G Grace completed his innings of 318* for Gloucestershire at Cheltenham. This remains the highest individual score versus the county

1920
Maurice LEYLAND made his debut versus Essex at Southend-on-Sea

1951
Raymond ILLINGWORTH made his debut versus Hampshire at Leeds

17th

1927
Arthur Wood made his debut versus Derbyshire at Chesterfield

1932
Horace FISHER made first-class history when he was the first to complete a hat-trick of lbws. It was versus Somerset at Sheffield, his victims were N S Mitchell-Innes, W H R Andrews and W T Luckes

1946
Arthur Leslie ROBINSON was born at Brompton. A strongly-built left-arm fast-medium bowler, he had a short career with the county, playing in 84 matches between 1971 and 1977. He took 196 wickets at 25.13, with a best of 6 for 61 versus Surrey at The Oval in 1974 as his best.

1966
Barrie LEADBEATER made his debut versus Glamorgan at Scarborough

1974
Arthur BOOTH died at Rochdale, aged 71

16th

1860
Martin Bladen HAWKE was born at Gainsborough. He became Lord Hawke in 1887. Appointed captain of the county in 1883 he held the post until 1910, by which time he had become President (in 1898) - a post he held until his death in 1938. Despite his place of birth being outside the county he was the mainspring in bringing about the ‘Yorkshire only’ policy that has been loosened only in recent years. Having said that he did invite one or two non-Yorkshire-born amateurs to break the rule. He introduced the system of winter pay, talent money and the county cap and it is said he was responsible for designing the unique White Rose emblem - with eleven petals, one for each member of the team. Not a batsman of the first rank he did score over 13000 runs for the county with a highest score of 166 versus Warwickshire among his ten centuries. He was President of MCC in 1914 and held the post of Treasurer from 1932 to 1937.

1894
The first day of the first first-class match Yorkshire played at Harrogate. It was a non-championship fixture versus Leicestershire

1999
Ron Aspinall died aged 80

15th

1901
Some remarkable cricket was played at Leyton. Essex were bowled out for 30 in 16.1 overs. George Hirst took 7 for 12 in 8.1 overs and Wilfred Rhodes 2 for 17 in 8 overs. Yorkshire, in turn, were all out for 104 with only T L Taylor making any headway with 44. At close of play Essex were 15 for 6 in their second innings. Next day Hirst and Rhodes finished the Essex innings, at 41 all out, having bowled unchanged throughout the two innings - Hirst taking 12 for 29 and Rhodes 6 for 37. Yorkshire won by an innings and 33 runs. The 175 runs scored in this match is the second lowest aggregate in a match involving Yorkshire

1964
Fred TRUEMAN became the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets when he had Neil Hawke caught by Colin Cowdrey in the match versus Australia at The Oval

1970
Richard LUMB made his debut versus Worcestershire at Worcester

14th

1868
Arthur BAIRSTOW was born in Bradford. An excellent wicket-keeper it was unfortunate for him that he was a contemporary of David Hunter. In his limited opportunities he took 41 catches and made 18 stumpings in the 24 matches he played for Yorkshire from 1896 to 1900

1926
Wilfred BARBER made his debut versus Worcestershire at Bradford

1943
Barrie LEADBEATER was born in Leeds. A stylish right-hand opening batsman he did not fulfil his early promise. His only century, in the 5,247 first-class runs he scored for the county, was 140* versus Hampshire at Portsmouth. He is now a much respected first-class umpire

13th

1872
Frank MITCHEL was born at Market Weighton. He had a limited career with Yorkshire, playing in only 83 matches spread over eleven seasons from 1894 to 1904. He scored just over 4000 runs at the very creditable average of 34.20. The highest of his ten centuries was 194 versus Leicestershire at Leicester in 1899. He played Test cricket for both England and South Africa and captained the latter in three of their Tests in the 1912 Triangular Test series in England

1945
Alec COXON made his debut versus Lancashire at Bradford - the Hedley Verity Memorial Match

12th

1909
Alonzo DRAKE made his debut versus Derbyshire at Sheffield

1941
Bobby PEEL died at Morley aged 84

1977
Geoffrey BOYCOTT scored his 100th century in the Test match versus Australia at Headingley - he went on to total 191

1993
Craig WHITE was awarded his county cap

11th

1899
Ted Wainwright and George Hirst completed their record fifth wicket partnership for Yorkshire versus Surrey at The Oval. Wainwright made 228 and Hirst 186 in their stand of 340 - the record still stands

1932
Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Leyland added 149 for Yorkshire’s fourth wicket versus Essex at Scarborough. During this partnership the two scored 102 off six consecutive overs.

10th

1911
Ellis Pembroke ROBINSON was born at Denby Main. Robinson was one of many whose career was severely interrupted by the War. Making his debut in 1934 he established himself as Yorkshire’s premier off-spinner in the years running up to 1939. Taking 735 wickets (at 20.60) in his 208 matches, he was also a member of the brilliant circle of Yorkshire close-to-the-wicket fielders. His six catches in an innings versus Leicestershire at Bradford in 1938 is the Yorkshire record for the number of catches in an innings. He left Yorkshire to join Somerset at the end of the 1949 season

1922
Charles PARKER, the Gloucestershire slow left-arm bowler, hit the stumps with five consecutive balls in his Benefit match versus Yorkshire at Bristol. The second of the five was a no-ball but he did, of course, complete the hat-trick, his victims being Emmott Robinson, Arthur Dolphin and Abe Waddington

1955
At Scarborough Fred TRUEMAN took his second hat-trick versus Nottinghamshire. His first against them was at Nottingham in 1951

1957
Ken TAYLOR was awarded his county cap

9th

1977
Chris OLD scored a century in 37 minutes versus Warwickshire at Birmingham. It should be explained that this was achieved in contrived circumstances against loose bowling designed to expedite a declaration. Old hit thirteen 4’s and a six, his second 50 coming in nine minutes

1986
David BYAS made his debut versus Glamorgan at Leeds

1986
Ashley METCALFE was awarded his county cap

8th

1893
Yorkshire lost to Lancashire by 5 runs at Manchester. This match produced only 223 runs and is the lowest aggregate in Yorkshire cricket in which all 40 wickets fell. (Lancashire 64 and 50, Yorkshire 58 and 51.)

1939
At Leeds Leonard Hutton scored his first, and many think his best, Roses century. Needing 147 to win, with rain an ever present threat, Hutton made 105* to see Yorkshire home by 5 wickets in the last Roses match before the Second World War. His winning hit was dropped by Cyril Washbrook, had the catch been taken there is some doubt as to whether the next batsman would have got to the crease as a thunderstorm broke over the ground. The win was set up by Ellis Robinson, who took 8 wickets for 22 runs on the last morning of the match (8 for 35 in the innings) to shoot out Lancashire for 92

1955
Raymond ILLINGWORTH was awarded his county cap

7th

1937
Don WILSON was born at Settle. A slow-left-arm bowler, Wilson took just over 1100 wickets in his 392 matches for the county. His career ran from 1957 to 1974 after which he became Head Coach of MCC and then returned to Yorkshire to coach at Ampleforth College

1973
The last day of first-class cricket at Bramall Lane, Sheffield

1995
The Yorkshire versus Worcestershire match at Scarborough produced the highest aggregate of any Yorkshire match in the county. 1473 runs were scored for the loss of 17 wickets. This aggregate has been exceeded in a Yorkshire match only by the 1665 runs scored (for 33 wickets) at Birmingham in 2002

6th

1905
Sir Archibold WHITE made his debut versus Ireland at Dublin

1980
Simon DENNIS made his debut versus Somerset at Weston-super-Mare

1983
Simon DENNIS was awarded his county cap

5th

1935
Bill BOWES, with a return of 6 for 16 in 12.1 overs, routed Lancashire at Bradford. Making only 53, Lancashire followed-on 172 behind. According to Neville Cardus ‘…Bowes ruined Lancashire’s first inning entirely in three-quarters of an hour this morning, to the complete satisfaction of a vast and bloodthirsty crowd….’ Yorkshire won by 7 wickets.

1995
Michael VAUGHAN was awarded his county cap

4th

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

RICHARD DAWSON

23 TODAY

1962
Richard HUTTON made his debut versus Lancashire at Manchester

3rd

1855
Joseph HUNTER was born at Scarborough. A wicket-keeper, he ‘kept’ for Yorkshire in 143 matches taking 207 catches and making 102 stumpings. An injury to a hand brought his first-class career to an end to be succeeded by his younger brother, David, who became one of the most successful of Yorkshire’s short list of regular wicket-keepers.

1903
Horace FISHER was born at Featherstone. A slow to medium left-arm bowler he has his place firmly in cricket history as the first bowler to take a hat-trick of lbws. This was versus Somerset at Sheffield in 1932. He was unusual in that, although by no means a regular in the side, and a professional, he was awarded his county cap

1920
At Manchester, Percy HOLMES became the first player from either side to score two centuries in a Roses match. 126 in the first innings was followed by 111* in the second. Only Ted Lester has emulated the feat - in 1948, also at Manchester.

1963
Phillip Edward ROBINSON was born at Keighley. A hard-hitting right-hand batsman he played in 132 matches for the county before being released to join Leicestershire. His 6668 runs, at 35.84, included seven centuries - all in Yorkshire and five of them at Scarborough

1966
Chris OLD made his debut versus Hampshire at Portsmouth

1970
Geoff COPE was awarded his county cap

2nd

1866
Tom Emmett made his debut versus Nottinghamshire at Nottingham

1932
Yorkshire beat Lancashire by an innings and 5 runs at Manchester

1938
Yorkshire beat Lancashire by an innings and 200 runs at Manchester

Compiled by Roy D Wilkinson

Dates of debut are given only for those players who were subsequently capped and relate to debut in
First-class cricket for Yorkshire

1st

1928
Horace FISHER made his debut versus Northamptonshire at Harrogate

1931
Percy HOLMES and Herbert SUTCLIFFE put on 323 for the 1st wicket versus Lancashire at Sheffield. It remains the record 1st wicket partnership for Yorkshire versus Lancashire

1935
Yorkshire were beaten by Essex at Huddersfield by an innings and 204 runs. A first innings of 31 (before lunch on the first day) and a second of 99 were puny as compared to the Essex innings of 334