Weetwood Playing Fields

Ground information

Location

Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

Coordinates

53°50′13″N 1°35′20″W / 53.836911°N 1.588998°W

Establishment

1934

Team information

Leeds/Bradford MCCU	(2019)

As of 12 August 2020
Source: Ground profile

Weetwood Playing Fields is a sports facility of the University of Leeds located in the Leeds suburb of Weetwood, West Yorkshire, England.

Cricket

Among the facilities are a cricket ground, which is used by Leeds/Bradford MCCU. The team played a first-class match at the ground against Yorkshire in 2019,^[1] which resulted in a Yorkshire victory by an innings and 151 runs.^[2] The ground was scheduled to host a further first-class match between Leeds/Bradford MCCU and Warwickshire in 2020,^[1] however this was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England. With the loss of first-class status for MCC University matches from the 2021 season onward, first-class cricket at the Playing Fields has ended for the foreseeable future.^[3]

Records

First-class

Highest team total: 489 for 8 declared by Yorkshire v Leeds/Bradford MCCU, 2019^[2]
Lowest team total: 119 all out by Leeds/Bradford MCCU v Yorkshire, as above^[2]
Highest individual innings: 176 by Tom Kohler-Cadmore for Yorkshire v Leeds/Bradford MCCU, as above^[4]
Best innings bowling figures: 5 for 16 by Matthew Waite, as above^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "First-Class Matches played on Weetwood Playing Fields, Leeds". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Leeds/Bradford MCCU v Yorkshire, 2019". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
^ Ammon, Elizabeth (2019) End is near for first-class universities, The Times, 16 December 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2020. (subscription required)
^ "Weetwood Playing Fields, Leeds - Centuries in first-class cricket". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 August 2020.

External links

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