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31st

1870
Arthur SELLERS was born in Keighley. He found runs difficult to get at first-class level and played only 49 matches for the county from 1890 to 1899, scoring 1,643 runs at 18.88. Perhaps his greatest contribution to Yorkshire cricket was to be the father of Brian Sellers, although he did serve on the committee for many years.

30th

1870
Yorkshire first match versus MCC and their first visit to Lord’s.

1892
Ronald Thomas STANYFORTH was born in Chelsea. An amateur wicket-keeper he played only three matches for Yorkshire in 1928. He led an MCC team to South Africa in 1927-28 and captained England in four Tests. It is unclear as to how he came to play for Yorkshire

29th

1957
Don WILSON made his debut versus Scotland at Paisley

28th

1888
Robert MOORHOUSE made his debut versus Cambridge University at Cambridge.

1894
Frank MITCHELL made his debut versus Nottinghamshire at Nottingham.

1921
Percy HOLMES made his Teat debut versus Australia at Nottingham. It was the 100th Test between England and Australia.

1978
Graham STEVENSON was awarded his county cap. Has there been another cap awarded on a Sunday?

Yorkshire beat Lancashire at 5.00 pm. on the second day of the mach at Headingley. Phil Carrick scored his maiden first-class century and Stevenson took 8 for 65 in Lancashire’s first innings, Howard Cooper, 6 for 26, and Steve Oldham with 4 for 28 saw Yorkshire to an easy win by an innings and 32 runs.

27th

1898
Yorkshire beat Hampshire in one day at Southampton. It was Harry Baldwin’s Benefit Match and between 12 noon and just after six o’clock Yorkshire had won by an innings and 79 runs. All out for 42 and 36 Hampshire had no answer to Schofield Haigh who took 14 for 43 in the match. That Yorkshire made 157 was mainly due to John Tunnicliffe’s 58. Haigh performance remains the best by a Yorkshire bowler versus Hampshire.
1901
Hubert MYERS made his debut versus Lancashire at Manchester.

1925
Cyril TURNER made his debut versus Cambridge University at Cambridge.

26th

1884
Thomas Arthur WARDALL made his debut versus Cambridge University at Cambridge.

1919
Herbert SUTCLIFFE made his debut versus Gloucestershire at the Spa Ground Gloucester. This was the first match to be played after the First World War. William Edward BLACKBURN also made his debut in this match and took 5 for 39 in the Gloucestershire second innings to help give Yorkshire a good win by an innings and 63 runs. Blackburn was, until then, one of the very few players to have been born outside Yorkshire (although his birthplace of Clitheroe was not revealed until many years later). It was thought he was one of the ‘Blackburn’s of Sawley’ and no further check seems to have been made on the exact whereabouts of his birth. An amateur, he had been a captain in the army during the war and made only 10 appearances for the county not of his birth!

1984
Martyn MOXON was awarded his county cap.

25th

1878
Tom Launcelot TAYLOR was born in Headingley. A very talented amateur he was lost to cricket at an early age in order to concentrate on his business career, which saw him eventually becoming Chairman of the company owning The Yorkshire Post. In the 82 matches he played for Yorkshire from 1897 to 1906 he made almost 4,000 runs at the respectable average of 35.11. He was a Cambridge Blue for the three seasons 1898 to 1900 and was captain in his final year. He was President of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1948 until his death in 1960.

24th

1978
Neil HARTLEY made his debut versus Derbyshire at Abbeydale Park, Sheffield

23rd

1923
Rev. Edmund Sardinson CARTER died in Scarborough. Carter made little impact on Yorkshire cricket on the field (fourteen matches from 1876 to 1881, 210 runs at 11.05 and 8 wickets at 13.00). However, off it his contribution could be said to be immense as he is credited with arranging for both Edmund Peate and Lord Hawke to play for the county. He served on the Yorkshire committee for many years. He was born in Malton in 1845.

22nd

1883
Louis HALL made his debut for Yorkshire versus MCC at Lord’s.

1920
Emmott ROBINSON, in his first Roses Match, took 9 for 36 in Lancashire’s second innings to win a thrilling match by 22 runs. At lunch on the third day Lancashire needed just 52 to win with six wickets in hand. Robinson bowled with great determination and was denied an ‘all-ten’ only when Arthur Dolphin stumped the last man off Roy Kilner. But Yorkshire had won.

21st

1883
George Puckin (Shoey) HARRISON made his debut versus MCC at Lord’s.

1930
Hedley VERITY made his debut versus Sussex at Huddersfield.

1999
Michael VAUGHAN completed his second century of the match versus Essex at Ilford. S G Law also scored two centuries in the match - the thirteenth occasion on which batsmen have scored a hundred in each innings for both teams.

20th

1905
George HIRST completed the highest individual score for Yorkshire - 341 versus Leicestershire at the Aylestone Road Ground, Leicester. His innings contained 1 six and 53 fours.

1986
Geoffrey BOYCOTT and Graham STEVENSON added 149 for Yorkshire’s tenth wicket versus Warwickshire at Birmingham. This is the record for Yorkshire 10th wicket and Stevenson’s 115* is the only century by a number 11 batsman either for or against Yorkshire.

1993
Chris SILVERWOOD made his debut versus Hampshire at Southampton.

2001
Daren GOUGH took his 200th Test wicket when his dismissed Rashid Latif in the match versus Pakistan at Lord’s. Three of the wickets were taken four balls.

19th

1976
Bill ATHEY made his debut versus Northamptonshire at Northampton.

18th

1898
Wilfred RHODES made his Championship debut versus Somerset at Bath. He took 13 wickets for 45 in the match (7 for 24 and 6 for 21) and this remains the best ever debut performance by a bowler for Yorkshire.

1905
Hedley VERITY was born near the Headingley ground. One of the very greatest slow left-arm bowlers he, together with Bill Bowes, dominated the Yorkshire bowling scene during the whole of the 1930’s. He took over 100 wickets in each of his nine full first-class seasons ending his Yorkshire career with 1,558 wickets at 13.70. On the 1st September 1939 his first-class career came to an end by taking 7 for 9 in the Sussex second innings of 33 all out. On 31 July 2025 he died of wounds sustained earlier in action in Sicily.

1931
Hedley VERITY took 10 for 36 versus Warwickshire at Headingley.

17th

1906
Benjamin Birdsall WILSON made his debut versus Kent at Catford.

16th

1939
Ellis ROBINSON completed a hat-trick versus Kent at Headingley - all three victims were bowled.

15th

1875
Clement Eustace Macro WILSON was born at Bolsterstone, Sheffield. Elder brother of Rockley Wilson he played only eight matches for Yorkshire in the seasons 1896 to 1899. He did, however, play two Test matches for England versus South Africa in Lord Hawke’s tour of 1898-99. A Cambridge Blue in all his four years at the University, he was captain in 1898. After taking holy orders in 1900 he retired from the game. He built up a most comprehensive cricket library to rival that of his brother.

1920
George Gibson MACAULAY made his debut versus Derbyshire at Sheffield.

14th

1915
John Henry PEARSON was born in Scarborough. Still a member of the Scarborough Cricket Club, he is the oldest living Yorkshire player bar one - Horace Brearley (father of Mike) being two years older. Pearson played only three matches for Yorkshire spread over the three seasons 1934 to 1936. His highest score was a steady 44 in what proved to be the highest score of the match versus Northamptonshire at Kettering in 1935. This was the match in which Bill Bowes took 8 for 18 in Northamptonshire’s first innings of 62 and then went one better in the second by taking 8 for 17 - and that after conceding 10 runs before taking his first wicket!

1929
Only four days short of thirty-one years after his astonishing debut performance (see 18th May below) Wilfred Rhodes completed a match return of 12 for 80 to give Yorkshire a comfortable win by an innings and 37 runs against Essex at Leyton. In the second Essex innings Rhodes took 9 for 39.
Thirty years earlier, versus Essex also at Leyton he had taken 9 for 28. These were his only two 9- wickets hauls for Yorkshire (the third of his career was in a Festival match at Scarborough in 1899).

1930
Joe LISTER was born in Thirsk. A nephew of George Macaulay he played but little first-class cricket
for either Yorkshire or Worcestershire. He was Secretary of Worcestershire CCC from 1956 to 1971 and of Yorkshire CCC from 1972 until his untimely death in 1991.

13th

1963
Fred TRUEMAN completed the rout of Warwickshire at Birmingham taking 6 for 18 in their second innings to see them all out for 55 and to seal a win by an innings and 171 runs. Warwickshire actually did better at the second time of asking as they were dismissed for but 35 in their first innings. Trueman took 10 for 36 in the match.

12th

1898
Wilfred RHODES made his debut versus MCC at Lord’s
1971
Arthur Leslie ROBINSON made his debut versus Oxford University at Oxford.

11th

1903
William Herbert WILKINSON made his debut versus MCC at Lord’s. An interesting debut in that this match was played on the Nursery Ground - not the main Lord’s ground.

1949
Denis Brian CLOSE, Frank Anderson LOWSON and Frederick Sewards TRUEMAN all made their debut versus Cambridge University at Cambridge.

1971
On only one occasion have six centuries been scored in a Yorkshire match - versus Gloucestershire at Headingley in 1976. The match versus Warwickshire at Middlesbrough almost pre-dated that by five years. Five centuries were scored (G. Boycott 110, J D Woodford 101 for Yorkshire and 113 by M J K Smith, 112 by D L Amiss and 103 by R B Kanhai for Warwickshire). The sixth century was agonisingly close - Doug. Padgett was caught behind for 99. Reports do not confirm which of the two umpires gave the decision, but the two standing in the match were H D Bird and T W Spencer.

10th

1884
Edmund (Ted) PEATE completed a hat-trick versus Gloucestershire in the first of only six first-class matches played at Moreton-in-Marsh His victims were E M Grace, J R Painter and F Townsend. His innings analysis was 6 for 13 off 18 overs, Gloucestershire were dismissed for 43 and Yorkshire won by 41 runs.

1954
George Herbert HIRST died at Lindley, Huddersfield. One of the greatest cricketers of all time, Hirst made over 700 appearances for Yorkshire in a career from 1891 to 1921 (plus one appearance at the Scarborough Festival in 1929), he scored 32,024 runs at 34.75, took 2,481 wickets at 18.02 and held 518 catches. He made 56 centuries and took ten wickets in a match 40 times for Yorkshire. He, alone of all cricketers, scored over 2,000 runs and took over 200 wickets in a season. His contribution to cricket continued after his retirement as a player. He was coach at Eton College from 1921 to just before the Second World War and was also involved with coaching at Yorkshire for many years.

9th

1928
William Arthington WORSLEY (later Sir William Worsley Bt.) made his debut versus Worcestershire at Worcester. This was the first match of his two-tear spell as captain.

8th

1896
Yorkshire completed their innings of 887 versus Warwickshire at Birmingham. This was then the highest score in first-class cricket and it was also the first occasion that, in a single innings, four individual centuries had been scored (R Peel 210*, Lord Hawke 166, E Wainwright 126 and F S Jackson 117).

1908
Yorkshire dismissed Northamptonshire at Northampton for 27 and 15 to record a win by an innings and 314 runs. The two Northamptonshire innings were completed in only 39.1 overs, George Hirst had match figures of 12 for 19 and Schofield Haigh 6 for 19 (George Thompson was unable to bat in either innings due to lumbago). Hirst and Haigh bowled unchanged in the match. This was the first meeting of these two counties after Northamptonshire had been promoted to first-class status.

1922
Again at Northampton, Yorkshire competed another decisive win after bowling out Northamptonshire for 81 and 42. George Macaulay, with 6 for 8 and 6 for 23 (12 for 31 in the match), was the main destroyer helped by Wilfred Rhodes taking 4 for 6 in 12 overs in the second innings. Yorkshire’s first innings amounted to only 112 leaving them 12 to win in their second for a 10-wicket victory.

1929
William Eric (Bill) BOWES made his first-class debut for Yorkshire versus Oxford University at Oxford (he had made his first-class debut the previous season for MCC versus Wales at Lord’s on 30th May)

1948
William Herbert Hobbs SUTCLIFFE made his debut versus Oxford University at Oxford.

7th

1888
Edward WAINWRIGHT made his debut versus MCC at Lord’s.

1900
Yorkshire were dismissed by Worcestershire for 99 at Bradford - but still won by an inning and 5 runs! An astonishing match was concluded in a single afternoon. Wilfred Rhodes and Schofield Haigh, with four wickets apiece put out Worcestershire for 43. Yorkshire, thanks to 34 from Ted Wainwright and 24 from George Hirst, managed to reach 99. Then Rhodes and Haigh hustled the visitors out for 51 to give Yorkshire an incredible win. Rhodes (11 for 36) and Haigh (7 for 49) bowled unchanged throughout both the Worcestershire innings. One batsman was run out and another was late arriving at the ground!

William Arthur Irving WASHINGTON made his debut in this match.

1992
Sachin TENDULKAR made his debut versus Hampshire at Headingley

1997
Darren Scott LEHMANN made his debut versus Glamorgan at Headingley.

6th

1901
William RINGROSE made his debut versus MCC at Lord’s. A fast bowler who had several good performances to his credit in his 57 matches for the county, he became the most accurate and meticulous of scorers serving Yorkshire in that capacity from 1923 until 1939.

1909
Everard Joseph Reginald Henry RADCLIFFE (later Sir Everard Radcliffe Bt.) made his debut versus Northamptonshire at Hull. He captained the side during the many absences of Lord Hawke in 1909 and 1910 taking over as official captain for the 1911 season. He was born at Tiverton, Devon.

1912
John TASKER made his debut versus MCC at Lord’s. An amateur he played only 31 matches for the county in 1912-1913 before leaving the game to concentrate in his business career.

5th

1905
Wilfred RHODES completed the first of his two double centuries for Yorkshire (he made another whilst on tour in Australia) in his innings of 201 versus Somerset at Taunton. The Yorkshire total of 549 for 9 dec was their highest versus Somerset until exceeded by the current record of 589 for 5 dec at Bath in 2001. Rhodes and Lord Hawke added 151 for the 8th wicket and this remains the record for that wicket for Yorkshire versus Somerset.

4th

1932
Brian SELLERS, Frank SMAILES and Arthur RHODES made their debut versus Oxford University at Oxford. Sellers, as captain, and Smailes went on to play vital roles in the powerful team of the 1930’s. Rhodes, a competent all-rounder from Headingley, played only 61 matches until returning to league cricket after the 1934 season.

1960
Martyn MOXON was born at Stairfoot, Barnsley.

1985
Richard BLAKEY made his debut versus Middlesex at Headingley.

3rd

1947
Don BRENNAN made his debut versus MCC at Lord’s.

2nd

1934
Leonard HUTTON made his debut versus Cambridge University at Cambridge.

1953
Mike COWAN made his debut versus MCC at Lord’s.

1st

1995
Darren GOUGH completed an innings analysis of 7 for 28 versus Lancashire in a non-championship fixture at Headingley. He returned match figures of 10 for 80.