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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.
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