Northern Cricket Society

 By Brian Sanderson

Myself and Richard Griffiths are talking on a Zoom meeting this

 Thursday 19th 0f January at 7.30 pm

 It is  about the history of The Northern Cricket Society

and The Wombwell Cricket Society.

The Northern was founded on the 31 January 1948 at the Queens 

Hotel Leeds 

 The Wombwell was founded in September 1951.The cup

was given by George Featherstone to be given to the winner

of the Boxing Day game. The first match was 1949 when 

Billy Sutcliffe took five wickets for two runs.

Also a bottle of Whisky is given to the winning team. The games

are now played at North Leeds ground 

They have played at Collingham, Whitkirk,Bramhope

Alwoodley and Thorp  Arch.

This year's game was won by the Northern easily.

I will be putting more blogs during he coming months

in memory of Tony Hutton who's funeral is  this Wednesday.