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 cricket and/or club:
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, pp. 24-5 (January 1870)