Sicklinghall Cricket Club

A POTTED HISTORY

Date or National event event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event Interwar Period: 1919-1938 1925 George V is King. Yorkshire win the County Bowrake Wanderers Cricket Club is Cricket Championships. re-named Sicklinghall Cricket Club. Stanley Baldwin is Prime Minister. Cricket had been played informally in the village since the 1840s.

The Club play friendly matches.

1928 Alexander The Club join the and District Fleming discovers League. penicillin. 1930 George V dies and is succeeded by Edward VIII. 1932 The Club join the Wetherby and District League. 1934 The Club move back to their Bowrake ground.

1936 King Edward VIII is crowned King and abdicates from the throne in the same year. 1937 George VI, Edward VIII’s younger brother, is crowned King. 1937 The famous aviator, Amelia Earhart (1897 - declared dead 1939) disappears over the Atlantic Ocean. Sicklinghall Cricket Club

Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 1938 Prime Minister, The Club win their first trophy,the Neville Harbord Cup, as winners of the Junior Chamberlain, (Division 2) League. meets Adolf Hitler in an effort to negotiate an end to his aggressive policies which eventually lead to WWII. Second World War: 1939 – 1945 3 Sept Britain declares 1939 war on Germany. Sept 1940 The Battle of The Club stops playing during WWII. Britain. 1941 The worst air raid on Leeds kills 60 people. 8 May Victory in Europe 1945 Day. 15 Aug Victory in Japan 1945 Day. Post war: 1946 – 1999 1946/7 Play resumes after WWII.

During the post-war years, the players often travel to matches in Mr Marsh’s cattle van.

1948 The National Health Service is created. 1948 The Olympic Games take place in London.

1952 George VI dies. Elizabeth II becomes Queen.

1958 The Jinnah Mosque is the first mosque to open in Leeds. Sicklinghall Cricket Club

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1964 Former Prime The Club move to Stockeld Park, Minister Winston marking the occasion with a new set Churchill (1874- of trophies to be awarded at the end of 1965) retires from each season. the House of Commons aged 89.

1966 win the World Cup.

1970 Leeds Polytechnic formed. 1971 Britain changes The Club win the Championship and are from pounds, promoted to Division 2. shilling and pence to the decimal currency system. 1974 Sicklinghall are promoted to Division 1.

1977 The Queen The Club win their first Wetherby and celebrates her District League Division 1 title. Silver Jubilee, marking 25 years on the throne. 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first woman Prime Minister. 1981 Riots in Chapeltown. The Club win the Evening Cup for the first time.

1982 Apr - Jun: The Falklands War. 1984 Miner’s strike over The Club win the Wetherby League. pit closures. 1985 Play is cancelled due to snow.

Captain, Lindsay Pearson, scores 177 runs not out, winning him a new individual batting record and the League award for the season. Sicklinghall Cricket Club

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1987 The Club start a Evening League team.

1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.

1991 The First Gulf War. 1995 The most successful year to date in the Club’s history; winners of both the Wetherby League and the Evening Cup. 1998 Win the Fred Fleetwood Cup against rival local team Spofforth.

21st century: 2000 – present 2000 The Club reach the quarter finals of the National Village Knockout – a competition with 800 entrants. 2001 An outbreak of Foot The Foot and Mouth crisis means the and Mouth Disease Club cannot access their ground at in British cattle Stockeld Park. Whixley CC lend their causes a crisis for ground for home matches played on a agriculture and Sunday. tourism. 2002 The Club moves to their present ground. Farmland is transformed into a playing ground. Win the Fred Fleetwood Cup for a second time. 2003 The Second Gulf War.

2006 Mohammed Iqbal becomes the first Muslim Lord Mayor. 2012 The Olympic Games are held in London. Sicklinghall Cricket Club

Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 2016 Fire destroys the Clubhouse and all the Club’s outbuildings. The 2017 season continues with temporary facilities.

2020 Leeds United Football Club promoted to the Premier League. 2020 Coronavirus March - Leeds, along spreads across the with the rest of the UK, world. goes into Lockdown to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus. Present Sicklinghall CC continues to be a strong and competitive team.

They remain the most frequent winners of the divisional sportsmanship award.