Hall Park Ground in

Horsforth Horsforth is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, five miles north-west of Leeds city centre. Historically a village within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 18,895 ...

, near

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Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ) is an area of Northern England which was History of Yorkshire, historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its county town, the ...

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is a

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ground. The ground was the location of a

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 of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

match in August 1885 which pitted

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against MB Hawke's XI.First-Class Matches played on Hall Park Ground
/ref> The match was won by MB Hawke's XI by 3 wickets thanks to Australian

Claude Rock Claude William Rock (9 June 1863 – 27 July 1950) was an Australian schoolmaster and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Tasmania and other amateur teams between 1884 and 1893. He was born in Deloraine, Tasman ...

who took 8 for 36 in Yorkshire's second innings. Currently the Horsforth Hall Park Cricket Club play at this ground in the

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