Cricket

 Yorkshire, land of cricket, dales, flat caps, puddings, and more cricket. Over the years Yorkshire County Cricket club has seen its share of success (a record 30 county cricket championships) and failure (relegation from the top tier of county cricket in 2002), but throughout there's always been a prevailing sense of pride surrounding the team.

Herbert Sutcliffe made his debut for Yorkshire back in 1919 (he would have started sooner were it not for the war) and his debut for England in 1924. All in all he payed for an astonishing 26 years, and ended his career with the 4th highest test batting average in history (for players with completed careers) of 60.73 runs per innings.

As Herbert Sutcliffe's career was coming to an end, Len Hutton's was just beginning. At the tender age of 17 he made his first-class debut for Yorkshire in 1934, and followed that up with his England debut 3 years later. In 1938 he scored 364 in a test match against Australia to break the previous record of 336 scored by Wally Hammond in 1933. Unfortunately for Len, WWII meant that his career took a break, and unfortunately so did his left arm. The break was so bad that he had to have bone grafts which left his left arm 2" shorter than his right. This didn't curtail his career, and when he retired in 1960 he had a very respectable 55.51 batting average.

The team of the late 50's and 60's was comprised of many great players, such as Brian Close...