Headingley Cricket Ground

Headingley Cricket Ground located in Leeds sponsored by Emerald.it has the capacity to have 18,350 people at a time to watch a match. The ground established in 1890 owned by Yorkshire Country Cricket Club. Its ends names are Kirkstall Lane end and Football end. The ground has hosted both the test matches and ODI matches as well. Yorkshire County Cricket Club have shown a keen interest in redeveloping the northern side of the ground. This is a major inconvenience to Leeds Rugby Limited as they wish to redevelop their North Stand, which backs onto the Cricket Ground, any redevelopment of this stand cannot go ahead until Yorkshire Cricket is also willing to redevelop their side of the cricket pitch. If Headingley is to retain Test Ground Status, it is likely that further improvements will need to be made to the ground. Any future development is likely to increase the capacity of the ground as well as providing new corporate and banqueting facilities. Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leeds Metropolitan University have recently unveiled their plan for the new Headingley Carnegie Pavilion, which will replace 'The Shed' to the northern side of the Cricket Ground (which dating from the early 1970s is the oldest surviving part of the cricket ground). The new structure will be of modern design.

The new pavilion replaces 'The Winter Shed' and 'The Media Centre' at the Kirkstall Lane end of the ground, which had become obsolete, according to Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and no longer meet the requirements of modern broadcasting. The changing facilities are replaced by 'state of the art' changing facilities, designed specifically for cricket, while the new executive boxes provide level of service. Yorkshire County Cricket Clubs offices will also be relocated into the pavilion, which boasts environmentally friendly features such as a ground source heat pump and solar hot water heating.

It hosted the 40 One day internationals and 77 Test matches. It is the ground where so many records are made batsman scored big runs here. In 1930 Ashes test match Donald Bradman played the inning of 334 runs here. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia chased the target of 404 for just 3 wickets on the last day of a test match where Arthur Morris and Bradman scored 182 and 173 not out respectively.

In 1975 Ashes series a test match was abandoned and declared a draw because of George Davis had dug holes in the pitch and poured oil at the one end of the pitch.

In the 1981 Ashes match, Ian Botham scored 149 not out the inning and Bob Willis took eight wickets for just 43 runs to give England 18 runs win.

In 1999 world Headingley hosted the world cup match between Australia and South Africa where Australia chased down the target of 271.

On 17 August 2017, Yorkshire Vikings posted the highest ever T20 score in English domestic cricket of 260–4, with Adam Lyth scoring the highest individual score (161) in English T20 domestic cricket. Twelve days later, Shai Hope scored two centuries in the test match between England cricket team and West Indies cricket team, making him the first batsman in first-class cricket at Headingley to score a century in both innings.