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Compiled By Roy Wilkinson

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

30th

1904
Tom EMEETT died in Leicester. One of the first great Yorkshire cricketers (and characters!). He played in 299 matches for Yorkshire from 1866 to 1888 - took 1216 wickets at 12.71 each, scored over 6000 runs and took 179 catches. His best performance with his left-arm medium round-arm bowling was 9 for 23 versus Cambridgeshire in 1869 - in Yorkshire’s only first-class match on the Hunslet ground. This, added to his first innings 7 for 15, gave him a match return of 16 for 38. It remained the best match return for Yorkshire until Hedley Verity took 17 for 91 versus Essex at Leyton in 1933. Emmett was a member of the England team to play in the first Test match ever played - versus Australia at Melbourne in March 1877. He was the last professional to be appointed captain of Yorkshire until Vic Wilson in 1960.

1924
Herbert SUTCLIFFE and Jack Hobbs added 268 for England’s first wicket versus South Africa at Lord’s, this remains the record opening partnership for England at Lord’s.

1953
Willie WATSON and Trevor Bailey added 163 in their famous match-saving fifth wicket partnership versus Australia at Lord’s. Watson, in his first Test versus Australia, batted for 5 hours 46 minutes in making his 109 while Bailey took just over four and a quarter hours for his 71. Seven weeks later England regained the Ashes at The Oval.

1994
Gavin Hamilton made his debut versus Kent at Maidstone.

1994
Darren GOUGH made his debut in Test cricket versus New Zealand at Manchester. He made 65 in his only innings, this remains his highest score in Tests, and took 6 for 152 in the match.

29th

1897
J T BROWN (Darfield) made his debut versus Philadelphians at Sheffield

1908
Major William BOOTH made his debut versus Somerset at Dewsbury
1965
Paul William JARVIS was born in Redcar.

2000
Matthew HOGGARD made his debut in Test cricket versus West Indies at Lord’s

28th

1904
Yorkshire beat Hampshire by 370 runs at Leeds to record what was then their most decisive win by a runs margin (since bettered only once, by beating Somerset by 389 runs in 1906). Wilfred Rhodes and Schofield Haigh bowled unchanged in the match to record figures of 10 for 39 and 10 for 49 respectively. Hampshire were shot out for 62 and 36 in a total of 44.4 overs

1969
John HAMPSHIRE made his debut in Test cricket and celebrated by scoring 107 versus West Indies and so became the only England player to score a century on his Test debut at Lord’s. There were three other Yorkshiremen in the England team - and two of them scored hundreds, Geoffrey Boycott 106 and Raymond Illingworth 113, with Philip Sharpe almost joining them with 86

27th

1924
Robert (Bob) APPLEYARD was born in Bradford. One of the very best of Yorkshire’s multitalented bowlers he could use the new ball to great effect and then turn to probing off-spin. In his first full season (1951) he took 200 wickets at 14.14. In a career from 1950 to 1958 and curtailed by illness he took 642 wickets at the inexpensive cost of 15.42 each.

1928
Herbert Sutcliffe (147*) and Maurice Leyland (189*) added 323 in an unbroken 3rd wicket partnership versus Glamorgan at Huddersfield. This remains Yorkshire’s 3rd wicket record

1932
Wilf Barber (162) and Maurice Leyland (189) added 346 for the 2nd wicket versus Middlesex at Sheffield. This remains Yorkshire’s 2nd wicket record

1939
Frank SMAILES completed his analysis of 10 for 47 in Derbyshire’s second innings at Sheffield.
The Pope brothers, Alfred and George, had bowled out Yorkshire for just 83, but than Smailes and Jim Smurthwaite saw off Derbyshire in their first innings for the paltry score of just 20 (Smurthwaite 5 for 7 in 4 overs and Smailes 4 for 11 in 4.3 overs). The second Yorkshire innings, led by Wilf Barber with 100, totalled 310 - lead of 373. And then came Smailes again with his devastating spell of 17.5 overs taking all ten Derbyshire wickets for 47

26th

1913
Horace BREARLEY was born in Heckmondwike. He made only one appearance for Yorkshire, versus Middlesex at Sheffield in 1937. He is now the oldest living Yorkshire cricketer and is the father of Mike Brearley (Middlesex and England captain)

1930
Yorkshire beat Somerset by 328 runs at Bradford. Yorkshire were all out for 186 in their first innings
But Somerset were dismissed for 43 with Reginald Northway carrying his bat for 21*. Percy Holmes and Arthur Mitchell then added 219 for Yorkshire’s first wicket and then Mitchell and Maurice Leyland put on 99 in an unbroken partnership for the 2nd wicket. At 318 for 1 wkt declared Yorkshire had a lead of 461. Bill Bowes (5 for 40) and Frank Dennis (4 for 16) saw off the Somerset innings for 133. This is Yorkshire’s fourth highest win by a runs margin.

1937
Leonard HUTTON made his debut in Test cricket versus New Zealand at Lord’s

1967
Raymond ILLINGWORTH took 6 for 29 versus India at Lord’s to secure a win by an innings and 124 runs

25th

1938
Anthony George NICHOLSON was born in Dewsbury. A very steady right-arm medium bowler he played 282 matches for Yorkshire from 1962 to 1975 taking 876 wickets at 19.74 apiece. His best innings return was 9 for 62 (12 for 102 in the match) versus Sussex at Eastbourne in 1967. His best in a match was 12 for 73 versus Glamorgan at Leeds in 1964

1932
Bill BOWES made his debut in Test cricket versus India at Lord’s, taking 4 for 49 in India’s first innings

1934
Hedley VERITY completed a match analysis of 15 for 104 versus Australia at Lord’s - 14 of them in one day. This brought England their first win over Australia at Lord’s since 1896

1952
Bryan STOTT made his debut versus Scotland at Glasgow

1955
Jimmy BINKS made his debut versus Nottinghamshire at Nottingham and so began a run of 412 consecutive County Championship matches. Regarded by many sound judges as the best of Yorkshire’s wicket-keepers he collected 1044 victims (872 caught and 172 stumped). His total of 107 victims (96 caught and 11 stumped) in 1960 remains the highest by a wicket-keeper in a season for Yorkshire

1996
Richard STEMP was awarded his county cap

24th

1948
Alec COXON made his debut in his only Test - versus Australia at Lord’s

1953
Ken TAYLOR made his debut versus Northamptonshire at Leeds

23rd

1916
Leonard HUTTON was born at Fulneck, Pudsey. One of the very small band of really great batsman, Hutton will always be remembered for his innings of 364 versus Australia at The Oval in 1938 and for the sheer majesty of his batting both before and after the Second World War. He became the first professional in the modern era to be appointed captain of England and was at the helm when the Ashes were regained at The Oval in 1953, he went on to retain them in Australia in 1954-55. He was knighted in 1956 and was President of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club at the time of his death in 1990

1932
Herbert SUTCLIFFE completed his innings of 270 versus Sussex at Leeds. This remains the highest individual score for Yorkshire on the ground. Sutcliffe made only one higher score in his career - 313 versus Essex at Leyton in the famous 555 partnership with Percy Holmes

22nd

1891
John T MOUNSEY made his debut versus Surrey at Sheffield

1939
Hedley VERITY completed a match analysis of 14 for 68 versus Glamorgan at Bradford. In the first innings he took 7 for 48 and in the second 7 for 20

21st

1886
Saul WADE made his debut versus Cambridge University at Cambridge

1894
Frank MILLIGAN made his debut versus Liverpool & District at Liverpool

1901
Nottinghamshire were bowled out at Nottingham for 13 in 15.5 overs. Wilfred Rhodes took 6 for 4 in 7.5 overs and Schofield Haigh 4 for 8 in 7 overs. This remains the lowest total versus Yorkshire

20th

1889
Lees WHITEHEAD made his debut versus Middlesex at Lord’s

1973
Arnie SIDEBOTTOM made his debut versus Gloucestershire at Gloucester

19th

1882
Fred LEE made his debut versus the Australians at Sheffield

1913
Percy HOLMES made his debut versus Middlesex at Lord’s

18th

1910
Yorkshire made their highest ever score in the fourth innings to win a match, making 331 for 8 wickets versus Middlesex at Lord’s

1954
Yorkshire completed the first of their two tied matches. Going for the winning run off the last possible ball of the match C T Spencer was run out by Johnny Wardle Spencer had earlier taken 9 for 63 in Yorkshire’s second innings - seven bowled

17th

1905
Alan Theodore BARBER was born at Ecclesall, Sheffield. An Oxford Blue in the three seasons 1927 to 1929; he was captain in his final year. He captained Yorkshire for just one season, 1930, before retiring to concentrate on his career as a schoolmaster

16th

1932
Percy HOLMES and Herbert SUTCLIFFE completed their record opening partnership of 555 versus Essex at Leyton. With Holmes making 224* and Sutcliffe 313 this was only the second, and so far last, occasion on which two double-centuries have been scored in an innings for Yorkshire

1962
Geoffrey BOYCOTT made his debut versus the Pakistanis at Bradford

1973
David BAIRSTOW was awarded his county cap

1984
Phil ROBINSON made his debut versus Derbyshire at Harrogate, making 74* in an unbroken partnership of 158 for the 5th wicket with Geoffrey Boycott (153*)

15th

1903
J T Newstead made his debut versus Cambridge University at Cambridge

1938
Harry HALLIDAY made his debut versus Glamorgan at Cardiff

1966
Geoff COPE made his debut versus Hampshire at Bradford. He had been selected to play versus Oxford University at Oxford six weeks earlier, on 4th May, but the match was abandoned without a ball being bowled

14th

1924
Roy KILNER and Herbert SUTCLIFFE made their debut in Test cricket versus Australia at Birmingham. Sutcliffe, in scoring 64, shared an opening partnership of 136 with Jack Hobbs and Kilner made 59

1933
At Kettering Northamptonshire were dismissed for 27 in their first innings - George Macaulay taking 7 wickets for 9 runs in fourteen overs. The match was concluded the next day with Yorkshire winning by an innings and 206 runs

13th

1919
Emmott ROBINSON made his debut versus Warwickshire at Birmingham

12th

1946
Vic WILSON made his debut versus Warwickshire at Birmingham

11th

1891
John TUNNICLIFFE made his debut versus Nottinghamshire at Nottingham

1907
Frank DENNIS was born in Leeds. He made 89 appearances for Yorkshire from 1928 to 1933 and was a right-arm quick bowler of some promise. He was awarded his county cap in 1929 but found shin soreness an increasing burden and was released after the 1933 season. His 156 wickets were taken at less than 29 each. After the Second World War his emigrated to New Zealand and at the time of his death on 21 November 2024 he had been, for some years, the oldest living capped Yorkshire player.
He was the brother-in-law of Leonard Hutton and the uncle of both Richard Hutton and Simon Dennis

1908
Arthur LUPTON made his debut versus Leicestershire at the Aylestone Road ground in Leicester. That was his only match for the county until he was appointed captain in 1925 - a position he held for three seasons and during that time he was responsible for regaining much of the respect for Yorkshire cricket which had been allowed to ebb away to some extent in the years prior to his appointment

1947
Norman YARDLEY was dismissed for his highest score in Test cricket - 99. It was versus South Africa at Nottingham and he had shared with Dennis Compton (163) a partnership of 237 for the 5th wicket

10th

1924
Black arm-band day for Yorkshire! Set to get 58 to beat Lancashire at Leeds, Yorkshire were all out for just 33. The batting order was: Percy Homes, Herbert Sutcliffe, Edgar Oldroyd, Maurice Leyland, Wilfred Rhodes, Roy Kilner, Emmott Robinson, Cyril Turner, George Macaulay, Abe Waddington and Arthur Dolphin

R K (Dick) Tyldesley spun Yorkshire to destruction with a return of 6 for 18 off 11.5 overs

1933
Mike COWAN was born in Leeds

1939
Herbert SUTCLIFFE and Maurice LEYLAND added 301 for the 3rd wicket versus Middlesex at Lord’s. This remains Yorkshire’s highest partnership for any wicket at Lord’s

9th

1879
Edmund PEATE made his debut versus Nottinghamshire at Nottingham

1967
Geoffrey BOYCOTT completed his innings of 246* versus India at Leeds. This was his highest score in Test cricket

1977
Paul HUTCHISON was born in Leeds

8th

1898
George HIRST, with 130*, and Schofield HAIGH (85) added 192 for Yorkshire’s 9th wicket versus Surrey at Bradford. This remains Yorkshire record 9th wicket partnership. Later that day Surrey were bowled out for 37 to leave Yorkshire winners by an innings and 121 runs. Wilfred Rhodes with 7 for 24 and Ted Wainwright with 3 for 10 did the damage with no Surrey batsman reaching double figures

1905
Arthur DOLPHIN made his debut versus Cambridge University at Cambridge

1925
Percy HOLMES made 315* versus Middlesex at Lord’s - then the highest score on the ground

1932
Raymond ILLINGWORTH was born at Pudsey

7th

Fred TRUEMAN took three of the four wickets that left India 0 for 4 in their second innings at Leeds. Trueman’s victims were Pankaj Roy c Compton 0, M K Mantri b 0 and V L Manjrekar b 0. The fourth was D K Gaekwad c Laker b Bedser 0

6th

1907
David BURTON made his debut versus Cambridge University at Cambridge

1928
Frank DENNIS made his debut versus Hampshire at Southampton

1930
Emmott ROBINSON completed a match haul of 108 and 11 for 85 in the match versus Hampshire at Bradford

5th

1939
Leonard HUTTON completed his innings of 280* versus Hampshire at Sheffield - his highest score for Yorkshire

1952
Fred TRUEMAN made his debut in Test cricket versus India at Leeds

Leonard HUTTON captained England for the first time in this match

4th

1959
Ken TAYLOR made his debut in Test cricket versus India at Nottingham

1964
Geoffrey BOYCOTT made his Test debut versus Australia at Nottingham

3rd

1970
David BAIRSTOW made his debut versus Gloucestershire at Bradford

1981
Martyn MOXON made his debut versus Essex at Leeds. In Yorkshire’s second innings he made 116. He was the second Yorkshire player to make a century on debut in first-class cricket, the first being Cec Tyson who scored 100* and 80* versus Hampshire at Southampton in 1921. Ashley Metcalfe became the third to perform the feat when he scored 122 in the first innings versus Nottinghamshire at Bradford in 1983

2nd

1870
Yorkshire beat MCC by 1 wicket at Lord’s. Yorkshire’s first match versus MCC and their first visit to Lord’s

1930
George MACAULAY achieved a hat-trick versus Leicestershire at Hull and had an innings analysis of 6 for 11

1978
Chris OLD took four wickets in five balls for England versus Pakistan at Birmingham

1994
Craig WHITE made his debut in Test cricket versus New Zealand at Nottingham

1st

1885
Joseph PRESTON made his debut versus MCC at Lord’s

1899
Wilfred RHODES made his debut in Test cricket versus Australia at Nottingham. He opened the bowling and took 4 for 58 and 3 for 60 in the drawn match

2001
Yorkshire completed victory over Glamorgan at Swansea by 328 runs. It is their most decisive win by a runs margin over Glamorgan and the fourth best in Yorkshire’s history