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:
“Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 1:38.
“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)
“The adjustment of qualities is so perfect between men and women, and each is so necessary to the other, that the idea of inferiority is absurd.”
—“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, p. 204 (August 1866)