Yorkshire County Cricket Club was established on 8 January 1863; prior to that an informal county organisation had existed before, and had occasionally appeared in first-class cricket, typically playing as Sheffield. It has since played first-class cricket from 1863, List A cricket from 1963 and Twenty20 cricket from 2003, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Great Horton Road in Bradford played host to the club's inaugural home first-class fixture in 1863 against Nottinghamshire, while a century later its first home List A fixture was played at Acklam Park in Middlesbrough against the same opponents, and forty years later the club's first home Twenty20 fixture was played at Headingley against Derbyshire. Yorkshire have played home matches at 21 grounds, but today play the majority of their home fixtures at Headingley, which also holds Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket matches. The club's original home ground at Bramall Lane also held one Test match in 1902.
The 23 grounds that Yorkshire have used for home matches since 1863 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.
Grounds Below is a complete list of grounds used by Yorkshire County Cricket Club in first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. Name Location First Last Matches First Last Matches First Last Matches Refs First-class List A Twenty20 Great Horton Road Bradford 22 June 1863v Nottinghamshire 10 August 1874v Lancashire – – – – Bramall Lane Sheffield 27 July 1863v Surrey 4 August 1973v Lancashire 20 July 1969v Derbyshire 24 June 1973v Leicestershire – – Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground after 1863 are recorded in the table. Swatter's Carr Middlesbrough 19 September 1863v Kent 2 September 1867v Lancashire – – – – Dewsbury and Savile Ground Dewsbury 25 July 1867v Cambridgeshire 17 May 1933v Essex – – – – Recreation Ground Holbeck 9 July 1868v Lancashire 26 August 1886v Derbyshire – – – – Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table. Woodhouse Hill Ground Hunslet only match:12 July 1869v Cambridgeshire – – – – Only the first-class match played by Yorkshire at the ground is recorded in the table. Fartown Ground Huddersfield 28 August 1873v Nottinghamshire 17 August 1955v Gloucestershire 1 June 1969v Sussex 9 May 1982v Worcestershire – – Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table. North Marine Road Ground Scarborough 7 September 1874v Middlesex 22 August 2024v Sussex 30 July 1969v Nottinghamshire 8 August 2024v Leicestershire 10 July 2011v Durham 30 June 2013v Durham Only the first-class and List A matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table. College Grove Ground Wakefield only match:13 June 1878v Sussex – – – – Argyle Street Hull only match:12 June 1879v Surrey – – – – Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table. Park Avenue Bradford 13 June 1881v Kent 20 June 1996v Leicestershire 31 August 1969v Northamptonshire 23 June 1996v Leicestershire – – Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table. Linthorpe Road West Ground Middlesbrough only match:20 July 1882v Australians – – – – Hall Park Ground Horsforth only match:20 July 1885v MB Hawke's XI – – – – Thrum Hall Halifax 30 July 1888v Gloucestershire 10 June 1897v Kent – – – – Wigginton Road York only match:9 June 1890v Kent – – – – Headingley Leeds 24 August 1891v Kent 26 September 2023v Worcestershire 29 June 1969v Worcestershire 6 May 2019v Durham 14 June 2003v Derbyshire 22 June 2023v Birmingham Bears Only the first-class and List A matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table. St George's Road Harrogate 16 August 1894v Leicestershire 18 July 1996v Hampshire 25 April 1970v Surrey 30 June 1973v Durham – – Only the first-class and List A matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table. The Circle Hull 10 July 1899v Somerset 6 July 1974v Worcestershire 22 June 1969v Essex 10 June 1990v Surrey – – Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table. Acklam Park Middlesbrough 28 July 1956v Glamorgan 6 June 1996v Surrey 22 May 1963v Nottinghamshire 2 July 1995v Gloucestershire – – Savile Park Castleford – – only match:25 May 1967v Cambridgeshire – – The Marylebone Cricket Club played a List A match here against the touring Zimbabweans in 2000. Only the List A match played by Yorkshire at the ground is recorded in the table. Abbeydale Park Sheffield 22 May 1974v Warwickshire 9 May 1996v Derbyshire 10 June 1982v Zimbabweans 12 May 1996v Derbyshire – – Shaw Lane Barnsley only match:25 August 1862v All England Eleven 21 May 1975v Nottinghamshire 13 May 1978v Surrey – – Clifton Park York 17 June 2019v Warwickshire 17 June 2019 v Warwickshire 3 August 2021v Warwickshire 17 August 2023v Hampshire – – Riverside Ground Chester-le-Street – – – – 24 August 2021v Sussex 24 August 2021v Sussex
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