Some York Cricket History

Last month I was quite rightly taken to task by a blog reader for a mistake when when writing about Keith Gillhouley, namely that I called him Kevin. By way of an apology I said I would at some point reveal an interesting link between Keith and the history of cricket in York.
In researching Keith's career from 'Cricket Archive' I discovered that the first record of him playing in a representative match was in August 1952 for Yorkshire Juniors against Durham Juniors at Wigginton Road, York, now the site of York Hospital.Keith took 6 for 25 in a one innings match and scored 13 not out in a one wicket win for Yorkshire.
As I suspect many followers will know (if we have many followers) Wigginton Road was the home of York CC until 1967 when they moved to Clifton Park on land obtained from Clifton Hospital. The Cricket Archive data base shows cricket played at Wigginton Road as far back as 1864 when the Gentlemen of Yorkshire played the Gentlemen of Notts. The ground was actually known as the Yorkshire Gentlemen's Cricket Ground until 1932 when they moved to their present ground at Escrick and York CC moved in. One first class match was played there, in 1890 when Yorkshire beat Kent by 8 wickets.
Yorkshire II played there occasionally between 1927 and 1959 in The Minor Counties Championship and on the last occasion, when they played Cumberland, Yorkshire's first three batsmen were HD Bird, JB Bolus and PJ Sharpe and one H Halliday top scored for the visitors.
The last match of note to be played at Wigginton Road was in 1967 between a full Yorkshire eleven and The International Cavaliers who won by six wickets. The two undefeated batsmen were Clive Lloyd and Ted Dexter. Don Wilson took 3 for 26 with Kanhai and Sobers amongst his victims, not a bad finale for a ground with over a hundred year's existence.