Mount Pleasant (cricket ground)
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Mount Pleasant was a cricket
ground in Batley
, Yorkshire
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1869, when Batley played an Burnley. The ground hosted a single first-class
match in 1883 when the T Emmett's XI played RG Barlow's XI.
The ground, adjacent to the stadium of Batley Bulldogs RLFC, is the home of Batley Cricket Club. They are members of the Central Yorkshire Cricket League.
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...
ground in Batley
Batley
Batley is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies southeast of Bradford, southwest of Leeds and north of Dewsbury, near the M62 motorway. It has a population of 49,448 . Other nearby towns include Morley to the northeast, Ossett to the southeast...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1869, when Batley played an Burnley. The ground hosted a single 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...
match in 1883 when the T Emmett's XI played RG Barlow's XI.
The ground, adjacent to the stadium of Batley Bulldogs RLFC, is the home of Batley Cricket Club. They are members of the Central Yorkshire Cricket League.
External links
- Mount Pleasant on CricketArchiveCricketArchiveCricketArchive is a website that aims to provide a comprehensive archive of records relating to the sport of cricket. It claims to be the most comprehensive cricket database on the internet, including scorecards for all matches of first-class cricket , List A cricket , Women's Test cricket and...
- Mount Pleasant on CricinfoCricinfoESPNcricinfo is believed to be the largest cricket-related website on the World Wide Web. Content includes news,articles, live scorecards,live text commentary and a comprehensive and searchable database called 'StatsGuru', of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present...