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Wrenthorpe Cricket Club

Wrenthorpe Cricket Club was established in approximately 1926 and played in a number of local leagues until the end of the second world war.

In 1946 the club became members of the Wakefield & District Cricket League, in 1971 the club joined the Dewsbury League which was reputed to have more clubs than any other league at this stage.

In the early 80's we joined the Pontefract Section of the Yorkshire Council and then in 1988 entered our current league, the Central Yorkshire Cricket League.

In the Heavy Woollen Cup we reached the semi finals in 2004 losing narrowly to Spen Victoria.

Our first team also reached the final of the Crowther Cup in 1979 when we were regarded as a junior club, we lost out to one of our member Dewsbury League sides, Mirfield Parish Church, in the final at this time we were playing senior clubs Second teams.

In the Wakefield league we were league champions several times and were Wakefield cup winners three years in a row between 1968-70 with the finals of these being played at the now lost College Grove, home of Wakefield Cricket Club.

Since joining the CYCL we have been in the Premier Division since it's inception in 1999 and have been league champions in 2003 and 2006. We won the Jack Hampshire Cup in 2005 and 2007. In 2007 we also won the Heavy Woollen Cup and the Council Play-offs.

We retained both the Heavy Woollen Cup and Council Play-offs in 2008.

We were also Division 2 champions in 1991 and 1994.

The ground is situated about a mile outside Wakefield and due to a small band of dedicated (elderly) workers have seen the playing area improve beyond all recognition in the last 20 years winning the CYCL ground maintenance award a total of 7 times.

The most famous player to don the whites for the club would be the Australia test and One Day International player Brad Hogg who played for the club as a young man in 1992, although at this time he was signed more for his batting skills and when he bowled it tended to be at a fast/medium pace.