Pudsey St Lawrence is a 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...

 club in Pudsey

Pudsey

Pudsey is a market town in West Yorkshire, England. Once an independent town, it was incorporated into the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds in 1974, and is located midway between Bradford and Leeds city centres. It has a population of 32,391....

, 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....

. Formed in 1845 the club now plays in the Bradford Cricket League

Bradford Cricket League

The Bradford Cricket League is an amateur cricket competition centred in Bradford, West Yorkshire...

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Members of the Bradford league since 1912, the club took until 1956 to win the league title but has not triumphed since 1991.

Famous players

The league has always attracted many players who have gone on to become internationals. In the case of Pudsey St Lawrence the list has included famous names such as the England players Sir Len Hutton

Len Hutton

Sir Leonard "Len" Hutton was an English Test cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England in the years around the Second World War as an opening batsman. He was described by Wisden Cricketer's Almanack as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket...

, 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...

 and more recently 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....

. A number of New Zealand internationals such as 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...

 and 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...

have also spent time with the club.

Popularity

The club fields four senior teams in addition to the first team and four junior teams. It also provides coaching for both boys and girls from age seven unpwards.