#bramall lane

2 incidents tagged

The Victory Tests — England v Australian Services, May-Aug 1945

England v Australian Services XI

1945-05-19

Less than two weeks after VE Day, England and an Australian Services XI began a five-match Victory Test series at Lord's that ended 2-2 with one drawn after a final-day finish at Old Trafford on 22 August 1945. Played as celebration cricket and watched by 367,000 people across three grounds, the series re-introduced first-class cricket to a war-weary Britain, launched Keith Miller and confirmed Lindsay Hassett's quality as a captain. Although first-class only — neither board would grant Test status to Services teams — the series functioned as a public reopening of cricket and is the foundation of the modern English summer calendar.

#victory-tests#1945#wwii

⭐Mild

Yorkshire Cricket's Sheffield Roots — The Bramall Lane Era Begins, 1840s

Yorkshire and various opponents

1843-08-01

Yorkshire county cricket in the 1840s was dominated by Sheffield, the county's largest industrial city, which provided most of the players and virtually all of the paying public. The Sheffield Cricket Club, playing initially at Hyde Park and then from 1855 at Bramall Lane, was effectively Yorkshire cricket's headquarters in this era, and the great North v South fixtures of the 1840s that tested Yorkshire's professionals against the best in England were Sheffield occasions rather than county ones.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s