Headingley

Headingley Stadium is a sporting complex in the Leeds suburb of Headingley. It is the home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Leeds Rhinos RLFC and Leeds Tykes RUFC. There are two separate grounds, with a two-sided stand housing common facilities. Until recently the whole complex was owned by the Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Company, which is the parent company of both rugby clubs. However, Yorkshire County Cricket Club purchased the cricket ground on 31 December 2005.

Since 11 January 2006 the stadium has officially been known as the Headingley Carnegie Stadium as a result of sponsorship from Leeds Metropolitan University (their sports faculty being known as the Carnegie School of Sport Exercise and Physical Education).

Headingley cricket ground adjoins the rugby stadium through a shared main stand. It has seen Test cricket since 1899 and has a capacity of 17,000.

Notable sporting moments:

In 1902, Yorkshire beat the touring Australians by five wickets, after dismissing them for 23 in their second innings with George Hirst and Stanley Jackson taking five wickets each.

Donald Bradman’s innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians’ next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304.

Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931.

In 1948, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat England. Arthur Morris scored 182 and Bradman scored 173 not out.

In the 1977 Ashes test (against Australia), Geoff Boycott scored his hundredth first-class hundred.

In 1981 Headingley provided the stage for perhaps the most dramatic comeback in Test cricket, when England beat Australia by 18 runs. The bookies quoted odds of 500-1 against an England victory after they followed on 227 runs behind and then collapsed to 135 for seven in their second innings. Ian Botham scored 149 not out, and then Bob Willis took eight for 43 with the ball, and England won. Members of the Australian team had taken the 500-1 odds.

In the Test of 1991, Graham Gooch scored a match-winning 154 not out, carrying his bat throughout England’s second innings of 252, against the West Indies including Malcolm Marshall, Curtley Ambrose and Courtney Walsh.

In a game they had to win to stay in the 1999 Cricket World Cup, the eventual cup-winners Australia chased down South Africa’s 271 for seven after being 48 for three. Steve Waugh, who had been dropped by Herschelle Gibbs as he attempted to throw the ball up in celebration, scored 120 not out.

In 2000, England dismissed the West Indies for 61 to win by an innings, with Andrew Caddick taking four wickets in an over.

In August 2001, England successfully chased 315 to beat the all-conquering Australians, with Mark Butcher scoring an unbeaten 173 as England won by six wickets.

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