As far back as May The Huddersfield Examiner reported that 2016 might be the last season for The Huddersfield Central Cricket League. At that time the talk was of a possible merger with The Halifax League but since then there have been several twists and turns and at this point it looks as though the 16 member clubs will be dispersed to not one but four leagues for next season if, as expected, the HCCL management board confirms at its AGM in November that after over 100 years of existence stumps have been pulled for the last time.
With help from Our Golcar Correspondent I have spent time this week trawling through various websites trying to establish where each of the 16 clubs will be when play is called next April, no easy task for even now there are ifs and buts in the Kirklees and Calderdale air that mean that the list below comes with a health warning that it may well need updating before the dust finally settles. As if to underline this uncertainty as recently as the 6th of October The Examiner carried a headline saying that cricket in the area was still in a state of flux and that the Huddersfield League was still not clear how many clubs it would be accommodating.
On Tuesday of this week, October 18th, at a meeting of The Halifax League the four clubs still wishing to join that league made presentations and the executive committee encouraged the existing members to 'endorse these applications'. All four clubs are within a ten mile radius of Halifax town centre and this seem their natural new home. The four are Mount, Birchencliffe, Leymoor and Bradley and Colnebridge.
Of the remaining twelve, seven seem likely to end up in The Huddersfield League, they are Cartworth Moor, Augustinians, Almondburians, Edgerton and Dalton, Nortonthorpe, Holmbridge, and Flockton. Green Moor and Higham have been accepted into the South Yorkshire League, Denby Grange and Calder Grove to Pontefract which would appear to leave only Horbury Bridge with no fixed abode although their location suggests they too might favour joining Denby Grange and Calder Grove. Watch this space.
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