Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in English cricket. The club has held first-class status since it was founded in 1864. Lancashire's home is Old Trafford Cricket Ground, although the team also play matches at other grounds around the county. Lancashire was a founder member of the County Championship in 1890 and have won the competition nine times, most recently in 2011. The club's limited overs team is called Lancashire Lightning.
Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, generally known as Lord Hawke, was an English amateur cricketer active from 1881 to 1911 who played for Yorkshire and England. He was born in Willingham by Stow, near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, and died in Edinburgh. He appeared in 633 first-class matches, including five Test matches, as a righthanded batsman, scoring 16,749 runs with a highest score of 166 and held 209 catches. He scored 13 centuries and 69 half-centuries.
Schofield Haigh was a Yorkshire and England cricketer. He played for eighteen seasons for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, for England from the 1898/99 tour to 1912, and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1901.
Anthony McGrath is an English cricket coach and former first-class cricketer, who played county cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1995 to 2012. He was a right-handed batsman and bowled part-time right-arm medium pace and twice captained Yorkshire, in the 2003 and 2009 seasons. He is the younger brother of the rugby league and union coach, Damian McGrath.
Christopher Paul Schofield is an English cricketer, who played Tests and Twenty20 Internationals. Schofield is one of the few leg-spinners to play Test cricket for England in twentyfirst century.
Michael John Lumb is an English former cricketer, who played for Nottinghamshire at county level and England in Twenty20 International cricket and One Day International cricket. Born and raised in South Africa, Lumb is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He became only the second cricketer after Dennis Amiss to score a century on ODI debut for England and ninth player overall to do so.
Ismail Dawood is a former professional first-class cricketer, who later played for Cheshire County Cricket Club. He has previously played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire, Worcestershire, Glamorgan and Yorkshire.
Adil Usman Rashid is an English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire and England as a leg spinner. Rashid was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
Andrew William Gale is an English cricket coach and former first-class cricketer, who is first XI coach of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He also co-owns Pro Coach Cricket Academy, with his business partner Chris Brice, providing cricket coaching by professional cricketers. He has taken part in some commentary work for Sky Sports and Yorkshire Radio.
Alan Ramage is an English former first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Northern Transvaal and the Minor Counties.
Arthur Crowther was an English first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1905, against Warwickshire at Dewsbury.
Edward Loxley Firth was an English first-class cricketer, who played two matches as an amateur for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1912. He had also appeared for Sheffield and District in 1911.
Sam Kilburn was an English first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, against Essex at Bradford Park Avenue, in 1896. He also played for the Second XI in 1899 against Durham in the Minor Counties Championship.
William Henry Micklethwait was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1911.
Dennis Schofield is an English first-class cricketer, who played three first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1970 to 1974. He appeared against Leicestershire in 1970, Worcestershire in 1971 and Nottinghamshire in 1974. In addition, Schofield played in three List A one day matches in 1970 and 1971. He also played in games for the Yorkshire Second XI from 1970 to 1976.
North Marine Road Ground, formerly known as Queen's, is a cricket ground in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It is the home of Scarborough Cricket Club which hosts the Scarborough Festival and the Yorkshire County Cricket Club plays a series of fixtures in the second half of the season each year. The current capacity is 11,500, while its record attendance is the 22,946 who watched Yorkshire play Derbyshire in 1947. The two ‘ends’ are known as the Peasholm Park End and the Trafalgar Square End.
Paul James Horton is a retired former cricketer who played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club in England and Matabeleland Tuskers in Zimbabwe.
The 1896 County Championship was the seventh officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 4 May to 31 August 1896. Yorkshire County Cricket Club claimed victory that year, winning 16 of their 26 matches and losing only three. Five of Yorkshire's players made over 1,000 runs in the season, including John Brown who was placed third nationally, while Yorkshireman Bobby Peel was sixth highest wicket taker and Schofield Haigh held one of the leading bowling averages. Although Yorkshire had a crop of players accruing these statistics, Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of Sussex took the plaudits for the most runs that year, 1,698, at the highest average, 58.55, while Surrey's Tom Richardson took the most wickets – 191, and William Attewell of Nottinghamshire returned the best average – 14.63 for his 87 wickets.
Harry "Joe" Griffin played first-class county cricket for Somerset in 1898 and 1899. As a slow left-arm bowler, he was employed as a professional by Todmorden Cricket Club in the Lancashire League before being recruited by Somerset. He played four matches for the county, but his bowling action was questioned, with suggestions that he was guilty of throwing. He continued to play club cricket for Street for many years after.
Christopher Keith Bullen is a former English cricketer. Bullen was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Clapham, London and educated at Rutlish School which he attended from 1976 to 1982. An all-rounder, Bullen played for Surrey County Cricket Club, Bedfordshire County Cricket Club and the Surrey Cricket Board in a career which spanned from 1982 to 2002.
