Callum John Geldart (born 17 December 1991) is an English
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...
er.
A left-handed batsman, Geldart is contracted to
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of 18 first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Yorkshire. Yorkshire are the most successful team in English cricketing hi ...
, for whom he has played two first-class matches in 2010 and 2011.
Geldart has been with Yorkshire since 2008, and has played for the Yorkshire Academy in the
Yorkshire ECB County Premier League
The Yorkshire ECB County Premier League was the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Yorkshire, England, and between 1999 and 2015 was a designated ECB Premier League.
The competing teams in 2015, which was the league's l ...
, and the Yorkshire Second XI in the
Second XI Championship
The Second XI Championship is a season-long cricket competition in England that is competed for by the reserve teams of those county cricket clubs that have first-class status. The competition started in 1959 and has been contested annually ever ...
, as well as appearing in a couple of first-class matches for Yorkshire. These were against
Loughborough UCCE
Loughborough MCC University (previously known as Loughborough University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a cricket coaching centre based at Loughborough University in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, and the name under which the universi ...
in May 2010, when Geldart scored 17 runs; and
Durham MCC University
Durham MCC University (previously known as Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a cricket coaching centre based at Durham University in Durham, County Durham, England, and the name under which the university's cricket team play ...
in April 2011, when he scored 34.
In September 2011, Yorkshire County Cricket Club announced that Geldart had been awarded a 'summer contract'.
References
1991 births
Living people
English cricketers
Yorkshire cricketers
Cricketers from Huddersfield
English cricketers of the 21st century
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