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Yorkshire County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at Headingley in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
The club was founded on January 8, 1863 in the Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield. From 1891 the club moved to Headingley. It has produced many prominent figures in English cricket, including Geoffrey Boycott, Fred Trueman, Darren Gough and Michael Vaughan amongst others. In 2001 the club won its first County Championship since 1968. Yorkshiremen are regarded as fanatical in their support of their native county, and in cricketing matters especially.
Yorkshire CCC was famous for insisting that its players must have been born within the County of Yorkshire, a rule not dropped until 1992. This rule was criticised as a manifestation of racism as many of the large Asian population of Yorkshire were made ineligible to play; Sachin Tendulkar was the first Asian to play for Yorkshire, but he played as an overseas player. It was not until May 2004 that Ajmal Shahzad became the first British-born Asian to play for Yorkshire. Many Yorkshire lower league clubs are accepted as either all-Asian or all-white.
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