Playing T20 cricket since 1937 

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The first trophy of the season was won today, with Scholes Chapelgaters overcoming Ashbrow Garage in a close fought game at Hall Bower - for a full match report (and photograph of the winners), click on the Emmerson Cup tab on Emmerson Cup tab.

After a pretty decent summer, weather wise, we are now entering the business end of the season.

All is still to play for in all three sections.

Whilst Ashbrow Garage & SSS Finance lead the way in the Premiership, Scholes Chapelgaters must be favourites with a good few games in hand (as long as they can get them in by the end of the season). At the other end of the table it looks like any two of four teams are in for relagation (Tenters, Almontbury Sunsets, Easypave and Yorkshire Medics).

Walkers Arms are leading the way in the Bottomley Conference, with a 4 point lead and games in hand. It is theirs to lose.

The Stallard Conference looks to be a fight between Edgerton & Dalton, Lindley Liberal Club & Oldham Lions. St Pats are up there, but have played most games and are unlikey to secure the top spot that would mean Premiership cricket next season.

All will be come clear by the end of the month.



Mike
1st August 2025






Twenty20 cricket is not a new phenomenon. The Huddersfield Evening Cricket League was founded in 1937, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, and its structure is remarkably similar to the “new” format that has taken the world of cricket by storm.
The League was established with a very simple goal. To provide competitive cricket for players who either did not have time for weekend cricket or did not consider themselves good enough. With a couple of minor changes, this is how the League runs to this day. Most players playing in any other competitive leagues are not eligible to play in the Evening League.
 
All matches start at 6.30pm on weekday evenings with the season running from late April to early August. Matches vary in length depending on the evening weather and can be as little as 10 eight ball overs, up to a maximum of 15 eight ball overs. The number of balls in the over means that there is less time wasted in changing ends.
 
The League is split into three sections and currently provides “friendly” competition for 18 teams. There are also two knockout competitions, the Emmerson Cup and the Priestley Cup, and an end of season playoff, the Allen Priest Trophy. The latter sees two semi finals and one final, played out on the same day in mid September - what does this remind you of? Even we, however, have succumbed to new fashions as, since the start of the 2010 season, all matches have been played with an orange ball.
 
Participating teams vary from works teams, to pub teams, to old boy’s teams. If you have a group of players that want to play on a competitive basis, the Evening League is ideal.
 
The Huddersfield Evening Cricket League has stood the test of time – long may it continue.




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