Illingworth St Mary's Cricket Club is a cricket club based in Illingworth, 3 miles (5 km) north of Halifax in West Yorkshire, England. They play in the Airedale-Wharfedale Senior Cricket League, as well as the Halifax League Sunday Section.
The club was established in 1884 and will shortly be celebrating its 125th anniversary.
Over the years many famous players have played for and at Illingworth; Tom Emmett (England), Gary Fellows (Yorkshire), Stuart Law (Essex, Queensland, Lancashire & Australia) and Robin Uthappa (India).
Famous quotes containing the words mary, cricket and/or club:
“Soaked by the sparkling waters of America.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2740, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Mi advise tu them who are about tu begin, in arnest, the jurney ov life, is tu take their harte in one hand and a club in the other.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)