The Bradford Cricket League (currently known as the JCT600

JCT600

JCT600 is a car dealership founded in Bradford, England in 1946 by Edward Tordoff - the company is now run by his grandson, John Tordoff. It has 22 franchises operating from 48 retail outlets across the North of England with an annual turnover in excess of £450 million.JCT600 takes its name from...

 Bradford Cricket League for sponsorship reasons) is an amateur cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 competition centred in Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

. It has been described as "arguably the country's strongest amateur competition."

It is structured into two divisions, split between twenty-five teams, mostly from Bradford, but some are from neighboring towns.

History

The League was formed in 1903 with twelve clubs but only four (Undercliffe, Bankfoot, Manningham Mills and Great Horton) of the inaugural twelve are current members.

The first club to win the League was Shelf, in 1903, claiming their only Bradford League title. In total, the League has had twenty-six different winners of its top division. The most successful club is Bradford CC, with 10 titles. The most successful club to still operate in the Bradford League is Undercliffe, who have 9 titles to their name.

The last decade has seen the domination of Pudsey Congs and Woodlands within the top division. Pudsey Congs won five consecutive titles between 2000 and 2004, and Woodlands won the following four titles. The only other team to win the title since 2000 is Baildon, who were victorious in 2009. Woodlands are the current champions, and their five titles could be considered as quite a feat as they were only readmitted to the League in 2001 (they previously spent two seasons in the second division in 1910 and 1911).

The League runs two cup competitions for the first and second teams of every club within the League. The first team competition is the Priestley Cup

Priestley Cup

The Priestley Cup is a cricket cup competition contested by clubs in the Bradford Cricket League. It is one of the most prestigious club competitions in English cricket and is widely reported by regional media...

, which has been running since 1904, and the second team competition is the Priestley Shield, which has been running since 1911. The only club ever to have won the Cup three times in a row is East Bierley, who won in 1998, 1999 and 2000. However, the most successful club in the competition is Undercliffe, who have won it fourteen times.

Structure

The League competition is made up of fixtures of fifty overs per side, with each team playing the others in their division both home and away. The strength of the League and its players is in part assisted by the League management having an open policy on the payment of players and no particular limit on the number of professional players in each game. However, teams are limited to one overseas player. In 2008 some first division sides have fielded as many as six players with professional (first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

) credentials.

There are certain playing restrictions that apply to all League fixtures. Bowlers are limited to bowling a maximum of fifteen overs per innings, the fielding side's innings must be bowled within 3 hours 10 minutes (failure to do so results in a points penalty), and the fielding side must have four fieldsmen plus the wicketkeeper and bowler within a 30 yard fielding circle at the moment of delivery (failure to do so results in a no ball

No ball

In the sport of cricket a no ball is a penalty against the fielding team, usually as a result of an illegal delivery by the bowler. The delivery of a no ball results in one run to be added to the batting team's score, and an additional ball must be bowled...

 being called).

Points are awarded as follows: 10 points for a win, 5 points to each side for a tie (scores level), 0 points for a loss, 5 points to each side for abandonment (no play), and 5 points to each side for an abandonment (with play, no win achieved). For all results, bar an abandonment with no play, teams can gain an added maximum of five bonus batting points and five bonus bowling points. Batting points are awarded as 1 point for scoring 125 runs, with an extra 1 point for every further 25 runs (to a maximum of 5 points), and bowling points are awarded as 1 point for every 2 wickets taken. As thus, the maximum amount of points that can be gained from a game is 20.

Spectators at first XI matches are often required to pay for entry and a programme. The League management has, from 2008, capped the maximum charge at £3, with concessions at £1.50. Second XI matches are capped at a maximum of 25p for adults and 10p for children. All gate receipts are kept by the home club.

Many of the grounds in the League are quite small. This fact, combined with traditionally good groundkeeping and wickets prepared primarily for batting makes for an exciting blend of cricket popular with supporters.

Noted players

Inevitably, the high standard of the League has meant that numerous players have managed to develop and become successful county and even Test cricketers. Some of the most notable members include Leonard Hutton, who was a youngster at Pudsey St Lawrence, and Jack Hobbs

Jack Hobbs

Sir John Berry "Jack" Hobbs was an English professional cricketer who played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches from 1908 to 1930....

 who played at Idle between 1915-1918.

Notable overseas players include West Indian fast bowler Learie Constantine

Learie Constantine

Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine MBE was a West Indian cricketer who played 18 Test matches before the Second World War. He took West Indies' first wicket in Test cricket and was the team's leading all-rounder and opening bowler for the entirety of his career...

, Indian Test player VVS Laxman and Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf.

Some of county cricket's brightest hopes have also come through Bradford League cricket such as Andrew Gale

Andrew Gale

Andrew William Gale is an English first-class cricketer, who plays for and captains Yorkshire County Cricket Club...

 and Adil Rashid

Adil Rashid

Adil Usman Rashid is an English cricketer of Pakistani origins, who plays for Yorkshire. Previously a player with England Under-19s, in December 2008, he was called into the full England Test squad, for the Test matches to be played in India...

 of Yorkshire and James Middlebrook

James Middlebrook

James Middlebrook is an English first-class cricketer, currently playing for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club. He is an all-rounder, who bats right-handed and bowls off spin.-Career:...

, now of Essex.

The following Bradford League players have played international cricket:
Baildon

• Brian Close
  Brian Close
  Dennis Brian Close , usually known as Brian Close, is a former cricketer who is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England. He was picked for the Test team to play against New Zealand, in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England,...
  
   (England)
• Matthew Hoggard
  Matthew Hoggard
  Matthew James Hoggard MBE is an English cricketer. The 6' 2" Hoggard is a right arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman. He played international cricket for England cricket team from 2000-2008, playing both Test cricket and One Day International cricket. He is currently the captain of...
  
   (England)

Bankfoot

• Anthony McGrath
  Anthony McGrath
  Anthony McGrath is an English first-class cricketer, who plays county cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman and bowls part-time right-arm medium pace and has twice captained Yorkshire, in the 2003 and 2009 seasons.-England:McGrath made his Test match debut for...
  
   (England)
• Derek Underwood
  Derek Underwood
  Derek Underwood MBE is an English former international cricketer, and a former President of the MCC....
  
   (England)

Bowling Old Lane

• Mohammad Yousuf (Pakistan)
• Martyn Moxon
  Martyn Moxon
  Martyn Douglas Moxon is a former English cricketer, who played ten Tests and eight One Day Internationals for England and appeared for Yorkshire for 17 seasons from 1981 to 1997...
  
   (England)
• Darren Gough
  Darren Gough
  Darren Gough is a retired English cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him...
  
   (England)
• Bill Athey
  Bill Athey
  Charles William Jeffrey Athey was an English first-class cricketer, who played for England, and first class cricket for Gloucestershire, Yorkshire and Sussex; he also played a solitary one-day game for Worcestershire. His bulldog spirit was exemplified by the Union Jack tattooed on his arm...
  
   (England)
• Doug Padgett
  Doug Padgett
  Doug Padgett was an English cricketer, who played more than 500 first-class matches and represented England in Tests twice, both in 1960....
  
   (England)
• Frank Lowson
  Frank Lowson
  Frank Anderson Lowson was an English cricketer, who played in seven Tests for England from 1951 to 1955. In first-class cricket, Lowson amassed 15,321 runs at an average of over 37, but had drifted away from the county game by his early thrties.-Life and career:Lowson was born in Bradford,...
  
   (England)
• Harold Rhodes
  Harold Rhodes (cricketer)
  Harold James Rhodes, sometimes called Dusty Rhodes is an English former cricketer, who played for England in 1959, for Derbyshire between 1953 and 1975, and for the MCC between 1959 and 1963...
  
   (England)

Bradford & Bingley

• Gareth Batty
  Gareth Batty
  Gareth Jon Batty is an English cricketer, more specifically a spin-bowler. He is the younger brother of the former Yorkshire and Somerset off-spinner, Jeremy Batty.-Life and career:...
  
   (England)
• Matthew Hoggard
  Matthew Hoggard
  Matthew James Hoggard MBE is an English cricketer. The 6' 2" Hoggard is a right arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman. He played international cricket for England cricket team from 2000-2008, playing both Test cricket and One Day International cricket. He is currently the captain of...
  
   (England)

Brighouse

• George Hirst (England)
• Wilfred Rhodes
  Wilfred Rhodes
  Wilfred Rhodes was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets in and scored 2,325 runs, becoming the first Englishman to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Test matches...
  
   (England)

Cleckheaton

• Yajurvindra Singh
  Yajurvindra Singh
  Yajurvindra Singh is a former Indian cricketer who played in 4 Tests from 1977 to 1979.He co-holds two Test fielding records: 5 catches in an innings, and 7 in a match....
  
   (India)
• Suru Nayak
  Suru Nayak
  Surendra Vithal Nayak is a former Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 4 ODIs from 1981 to 1982....
  
   (India)
• Abey Kuruvilla
  Abey Kuruvilla
  Abey Kuruvilla is a former Indian pace bowler of the mid 1990s.Kuruvilla stood a towering tall and coupled with his broad frame cut an imposing figure on the field....
  
   (India)
• Ian Austin
  Ian Austin (cricketer)
  Ian David Austin was an English cricketer.He made his first-class debut for Lancashire County Cricket Club in 1987 and remained with that county for his entire career, scoring 3,778 runs at 27.98 and taking 262 wickets at 30.35 with his medium-pace seamers in...
  
   (England)

East Bierley

• Edwin St Hill
  Edwin St Hill
  Edwin Lloyd St Hill was a West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1930. He was the brother of Wilton St Hill, also a West Indian Test cricketer....
  
   (West Indies)
• Collis King
  Collis King
  Collis Llewellyn King is a former West Indies cricketer who played nine Tests and 18 One Day Internationals for the West Indies....
  
   (West Indies)
• Les Taylor (England)
• Roy Gilchrist
  Roy Gilchrist
  Roy Gilchrist was a West Indian cricketer who played 13 Tests for the West Indies in the 1950s. He was born in Saint Thomas, Jamaica and died of Parkinson's disease in St Catherine, Jamaica at the age of 67....
  
   (West Indies)
• Nick Cook
  Nick Cook
  Nick Cook is a British aviation journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction works and has won four Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society.-Journalism:...
  
   (England)
• Jack Birkenshaw
  Jack Birkenshaw
  Jack Birkenshaw, MBE was an English cricketer, who later stood as an umpire and worked as a coach...
  
   (England)
• Gavin Hamilton
  Gavin Hamilton (cricketer)
  Gavin Mark Hamilton is an all-round cricketer who played one Test for England and has appeared in a number of One Day Internationals for Scotland...
  
   (England/Scotland)

Esholt

• Lou Vincent
  Lou Vincent
  Lou Vincent is a professional New Zealand cricketer. He has represented New Zealand in Test match, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Auckland in New Zealand domestic cricket and Worcestershire and Lancashire in English domestic cricket.-Early and...
  
   (New Zealand)

Farsley

• Ray Illingworth
  Ray Illingworth
  Raymond Illingworth, CBE is a former English cricketer, cricket commentator and cricket administrator. He was one of only nine players to have taken 2,000 wickets and made 20,000 runs in First class cricket, and the last one to do so...
  
   (England)
• Brian Bolus (England)
• Craig White
  Craig White
  Craig White is an English former first-class cricketer, and latterly cricket coach.-Life and career:...
  
   (England)
• Nathan Astle
  Nathan Astle
  Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...
  
   (New Zealand)
• Graham Roope
  Graham Roope
  Graham Richard James Roope was an English cricketer, who appeared in twenty one Tests and eight ODIs for England between 1973 and 1978....
  
   (England)

Gomersal

• Tony Blain
  Tony Blain
  Tony Elston Blain was an understudy to Ian Smith and Adam Parore, he played in 11 Tests and 38 One Day Internationals for New Zealand, after retiring from the game he went from coaching to a commentator....
  
   (New Zealand)

Great Horton

• Imran Nazir
  Imran Nazir
  Imran Nazir is a Pakistani right handed batsman in cricket who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket matches.-Career:...
  
   (Pakistan)

Hanging Heaton

• Abdul Qadir
  Abdul Qadir (cricketer)
  Abdul Qadir Khan is a former Pakistani international cricketer, later commentator and was recently the Chief Selector of Pakistan Cricket Board. He resigned from the post because of his differences with the top brass of Pakistan cricket board...
  
   (Pakistan)
• Dilip Vengsarkar
  Dilip Vengsarkar
  Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar is an Indian cricketer and cricket administrator. He was one of the most stylish batsmen of his time, known as one of the foremost exponents of the drive. He was also known by the nickname 'Colonel'....
  
   (India)
• Sameer Dighe
  Sameer Dighe
  Sameer Dighe is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper. His main chance at international cricket did not come until the 1999–2000 season, at which time he was 31 years of age....
  
   (India)

Hartshead Moor

• Shahid Mahboob
  Shahid Mahboob
  Shahid Mahboob is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test and 10 ODIs from 1982 to 1989....
  
   (Pakistan)
• Jacob Martin
  Jacob Martin
  Jacob Joseph Martin is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman. Martin has appeared 10 times for India at One Day International level, but never in Test cricket, at the turn of the 21st century. He is the current captain of Baroda.Martin made his first-class debut for...
  
   (India)

Idle

• Jack Hobbs
  Jack Hobbs
  Sir John Berry "Jack" Hobbs was an English professional cricketer who played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches from 1908 to 1930....
  
   (England)
• Stewie Dempster (New Zealand)
• Dinusha Fernando
  Dinusha Fernando
  Kandana Arachchige Dinusha Manoj Fernando is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler....
  
   (Sri Lanka)
• Ijaz Ahmed (Pakistan)
• Mohammad Hafeez
  Mohammad Hafeez
  Mohammad Hafeez is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm Slow bowler...
  
   (Pakistan)

Keighley

• Frank Woolley
  Frank Woolley
  Frank Edward Woolley was an English cricketer, one of the finest all-rounders the game has seen. In a career lasting more than thirty years, he scored more first-class runs than anyone but Sir Jack Hobbs, and took over 2,000 wickets at an average of under 20...
  
   (England)
• Jack Hearne
  Jack Hearne
  Jack Hearne may refer to:*J. T. Hearne , English Test cricketer*J. W. Hearne , English Test cricketerSee also:*John Hearne...
  
  (England)
• Schofield Haigh
  Schofield Haigh
  Schofield Haigh was a Yorkshire and England cricketer. He played for eighteen seasons for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, for England from the 1898/99 tour to 1912, and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1901....
  
   (England)
• Eddie Paynter
  Eddie Paynter
  Edward "Eddie" Paynter was an English cricketer: an attacking batsman and excellent fielder. His Test batting average of 59.23 is the fifth highest of all time, and second only to Herbert Sutcliffe amongst Englishmen; against Australia alone Paynter averaged an extraordinary 84.42.Born in...
  
   (England)
• Arthur Dolphin
  Arthur Dolphin
  Arthur Dolphin was an English first-class cricketer, who kept wicket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1905 and 1927...
  
   (England)

Lightcliffe

• Mohammed Kaif
  Mohammed Kaif
  Mohammad Kaif is an Indian cricketer. He is a thinly built cricketer who made it to the national team on the strength of his performances at the Under-19 level, where he captained the Indian team to victory in the Under-19 World Cup in 2000...
  
   (India)

Manningham Mills

• Phil Sharpe (England)
• Mike Veletta
  Mike Veletta
  Michael Robert John Veletta is a former Australian and Western Australian cricketer.He played in 8 Tests and 20 One Day International matches between 1987 and 1990...
  
   (Australia)

Morley

• Bobby Peel
  Bobby Peel
  Robert "Bobby" Peel was a Yorkshire and England cricketer: a left-arm spinner who ranks as one of the finest bowlers of the 1890s. He was also a capable batsman, who once hit 210 not out...
  
   (England)

Pudsey Congs

• Herbert Sutcliffe
  Herbert Sutcliffe
  Herbert Sutcliffe was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two World Wars...
  
   (England)
• Matthew Hoggard
  Matthew Hoggard
  Matthew James Hoggard MBE is an English cricketer. The 6' 2" Hoggard is a right arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman. He played international cricket for England cricket team from 2000-2008, playing both Test cricket and One Day International cricket. He is currently the captain of...
  
   (England)
• Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
  Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
  Rana Naved-ul-Hasan is a cricketer who plays for the Pakistani Test and One Day International teams...
  
   (Pakistan)
• VVS Laxman (India)
• Paul Grayson
  Paul Grayson (cricketer)
  Adrian Paul Grayson is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire and Essex.Grayson made his first-class debut for Yorkshire in 1990 where he played for five years. Having been released in 1995, he joined Essex and was awarded his county cap in his first season, 1996...
  
   (England)
• Chris Silverwood
  Chris Silverwood
  Christopher Eric Wilfred Silverwood is an English first-class cricketer.Educated at Garforth Comprehensive School in Leeds, as a right-arm fast-medium pace bowler Silverwood made his debut for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1993...
  
   (England)
• Derek Randall
  Derek Randall
  Derek William Randall is an English former cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire, and Tests and ODIs for England in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
  
   (England)

Pudsey St Lawrence

• Leonard Hutton (England)
• Eddie Leadbeater
  Eddie Leadbeater
  Edric "Eddie" Leadbeater was an English cricketer who played in two Tests in 1951. He was born in Lockwood, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and died in Huddersfield....
  
   (England)
• Steve Rhodes
  Steve Rhodes
  Steve Rhodes is a former English cricketer. He was best known as a wicket-keeper, but was also a useful number six or seven batsman, making twelve first-class centuries....
  
   (England)
• Mark Greatbatch
  Mark Greatbatch
  Mark John Greatbatch was a New Zealand cricketer. He scored more than 2,000 runs in his 41 Tests for New Zealand...
  
   (New Zealand)
• Martin Crowe
  Martin Crowe
  Martin David Crowe is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1985, and was credited as one of the "best young batsmen in the world". Crowe represented New Zealand from the early 1980s until his retirement in 1996 as a right-handed batsman...
  
   (New Zealand)
• Simon Doull
  Simon Doull
  Simon Blair Doull is a New Zealand radio personality, commentator and former international cricketer. He was a right arm medium pace swing bowler, and played in 32 Test matches and 42 One Day Internationals for the New Zealand national cricket team...
  
   (New Zealand)
• Chris Pringle
  Chris Pringle
  Christopher Pringle is a former New Zealand cricketer. A fast bowler who played 14 Tests and 64 One Day Internationals for New Zealand between 1990 and 1995....
  
   (New Zealand)
• Anil Kumble
  Anil Kumble
  Anil Kumble is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian Test cricket team. He is a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-hand batsman. He is currently the leading wicket-taker for India in both Test and One Day International matches...
  
   (India)

Queensbury

• Haroon Rasheed (Pakistan)
• Rashid Khan
  Rashid Khan (cricketer)
  Rashid Khan is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 4 Tests and 29 ODIs from 1980 to 1985....
  
    (Pakistan)
• Rizwan-uz-Zaman
  Rizwan-uz-Zaman
  Rizwan-uz-Zaman Khan is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 11 Tests and 3 ODIs from 1981 to 1989....
  
   (Pakistan)

Saltaire

• Sydney Barnes
  Sydney Barnes
  Sydney Francis Barnes was an English professional cricketer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the sport's history...
  
   (England)
• Bill Voce
  Bill Voce
  Bill Voce was an English cricketer. He played for the Nottinghamshire and England, and was an instrumental part of England's infamous Bodyline tour of Australia in 1932–1933.-Life and career:...
  
   (England)
• Tom Goddard
  Tom Goddard
  Tom Goddard was the fifth highest wicket taker in first-class cricket....
  
   (England)
• Jim Laker
  Jim Laker
  James "Jim" Charles Laker was a cricketer who played for England in the 1950s, known for "Laker's match" in 1956 at Old Trafford, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia...
  
   (England
• Arthur Mitchell
  Arthur Mitchell (cricketer)
  Arthur "Ticker" Mitchell was an English first-class cricketer, who played both for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England....
  
   (England)

Spen Victoria

• George Pope (England)
• Edwin St Hill
  Edwin St Hill
  Edwin Lloyd St Hill was a West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1930. He was the brother of Wilton St Hill, also a West Indian Test cricketer....
  
   (West Indies)
• Iqbal Qasim
  Iqbal Qasim
  Mohammad Iqbal Qasim is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 50 Tests and 15 ODIs from 1976 to 1988.Qasim ended his career with 171 wickets in his 50 Test matches, at approximately 3.5 wickets a match. His accurate bowling saw his economy rate at a low 2.21...
  
   (Pakistan)
• Mansoor Akhtar
  Mansoor Akhtar
  Mansoor Akhtar is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 19 Tests and 41 ODIs from 1980 to 1990....
  
   (Pakistan)
• Wasim Jaffer
  Wasim Jaffer
  Wasim Jaffer is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right arm off-break bowler.-Early years:...
  
   (India)
• Vinod Kambli
  Vinod Kambli
  Vinod Ganpat Kambli is a former Indian cricketer, who played for India as a middle order batsman, as well as for Mumbai and Boland, South Africa.He is childhood friend of ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar...
  
   (India)

Undercliffe

• Cec Parkin (England)
• Charles Llewellyn
  Charles Llewellyn
  Charles Bennett Llewellyn was the first non-white South African Test cricketer.Born out of wedlock in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and a black Saint Helenan mother, the dark-eyed and dark-skinned Llewellyn had an underprivileged upbringing in Natal being considered of mixed blood...
  
   (South Africa)
• Les Jackson
  Les Jackson
  Les Jackson was an English cricketer. A fast or fast-medium bowler renowned for his accurate bowling and particular hostility on uncovered wickets, he played county cricket for Derbyshire from 1947 to 1963, and was regularly at, or near the top of, the English bowling averages...
  
   (England)
• Alan Ward
  Alan Ward
  Alan Ward is an English former cricketer, who played in five Tests for England from 1969 to 1976. He played for Derbyshire from 1966 to 1976, and for Leicestershire from 1977 to 1978. A fast right-arm bowler, he could, with more fortune, have been the perfect foil of his era for John Snow...
  
   (England)
• David Bairstow
  David Bairstow
  David Leslie Bairstow was an English cricketer, who played for Yorkshire and England as a wicket-keeper. He also played football for his hometown club Bradford City.-Early life and education:...
  
   (England)

Windhill

• Lou Vincent
  Lou Vincent
  Lou Vincent is a professional New Zealand cricketer. He has represented New Zealand in Test match, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Auckland in New Zealand domestic cricket and Worcestershire and Lancashire in English domestic cricket.-Early and...
  
   (New Zealand)
• Charlie Parker
  Charlie Parker
  Charles Parker, Jr. , famously called Bird or Yardbird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer....
  
   (England)
• Les Ames
  Les Ames
  Leslie Ethelbert George Ames, CBE was an outstanding wicket-keeper and batsman for the England cricket team and Kent County Cricket Club. In his obituary, the Wisden of 1991 described him as the greatest wicket-keeper-batsman of all time...
  
   (England)
• Amol Muzumdar
  Amol Muzumdar
  Amol Anil Muzumdar is an Indian cricketer, currently playing for the Assam cricket team who is primarily a right-handed batsman. He holds the world record for the highest-ever score by a player on his first-class debut...
  
   (India)
• Learie Constantine
  Learie Constantine
  Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine MBE was a West Indian cricketer who played 18 Test matches before the Second World War. He took West Indies' first wicket in Test cricket and was the team's leading all-rounder and opening bowler for the entirety of his career...
  
   (West Indies)

Woodlands

Yeadon

• Geoff Cope
  Geoff Cope
  Geoff Cope played first-class cricket for Yorkshire from 1966 to 1980, and appeared in three Test matches for England.-Life and career:...
  
   (England)
• Brian Close
  Brian Close
  Dennis Brian Close , usually known as Brian Close, is a former cricketer who is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England. He was picked for the Test team to play against New Zealand, in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England,...
  
   (England)
• Ted Peate
  Ted Peate
  Edmund Peate was an English professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England.-Overview:...
  
   (England)

In April 1999, Kathryn Leng

Kathryn Leng

Kathryn Leng is an English cricketer for Bradford/Leeds UCCE, England Women and Yorkshire Women.Born in Pudsey, Yorkshire, Leng was U-19 captain for England Women and first played for the senior squad in a One-day International in 1995...

 became the first woman to play in the Bradford League, representing the former Yorkshire Bank club.

Clubs 2012

Division 1

• Bradford & Bingley
• Cleckheaton
• East Bierley
• Farsley
• Hanging Heaton
• Lightcliffe
• Manningham Mills
• Pudsey Congs
• Pudsey St Lawrence
  Pudsey St Lawrence Cricket Club
  Pudsey St Lawrence is a cricket club in Pudsey, West Yorkshire. Formed in 1845 the club now plays in the Bradford Cricket League.Members of the Bradford league since 1912, the club took until 1956 to win the league title but has not triumphed since 1991....
  
  
• Saltaire
• Undercliffe
• Woodlands

Division 2

• Baildon
• Bankfoot
• Bowling Old Lane
• Brighouse
• Gomersal
• Great Horton
• Hartshead Moor
• Idle
• Keighley
• Morley
• Spen Victoria
• Windhill
• Yeadon

Honours 2011

Competition	Winners	Runners-Up
Division One	Woodlands	Farsley
Division Two	Lightcliffe	Saltaire
Priestley Cup	Pudsey St Lawrence	East Bierley
2nd XI Division One	Farsley	Yeadon
2nd XI Division Two	Gomersal	East Bierley
Priestley Shield	Gomersal	Pudsey St Lawrence

External links

• Official site
• Telegraph & Argus BCL section