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Headingley Rugby StadiumImage:Headingley Carnegie.jpg The new Carnegie Stand at the rugby ground
The record attendance at Headingley was 40,175 for the rugby league match between Leeds and Bradford on the 21st May, 1947. Leeds RUFC, later to become Leeds Tykes, was formed in June 1991 after the amalgamation of two clubs, Roundhay and Headingley. In July 1998 Leeds RUFC became part of the world's first dual-code rugby partnership, Leeds Rugby Limited. Headingley's rugby stadium is located at . Headingley Cricket GroundImage:18 Headingley.jpg England v Australia 4th Test 2001
Headingley's cricket ground is located at . Notable sporting momentsIn 1902, Yorkshire beat the touring Australians by five wickets, after dismissing them for 23 in their second innings with George Herbert Hirst and Stanley Jackson taking five wickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In 1948, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat England. Arthur Morris scored 182 and Bradman scored 173 not out. In the 1977 Ashes test (against Australia), Geoff Boycott scored his hundredth first-class hundred. In 1981 Headingley provided the stage for perhaps the most dramatic comeback in Test cricket, when England beat Australia by 18 runs. The bookies quoted odds of 500-1 against an England victory after they followed on 227 runs behind and then collapsed to 135 for seven in their second innings. Ian Botham scored 149 not out, and then Bob Willis took eight for 43 with the ball, and England won. Members of the Australian team had taken the 500-1 odds. [2] In the Test of 1991, Graham Gooch scored a match-winning 154 not out, carrying his bat throughout England's second innings of 252, against the West Indies including Malcolm Marshall, Curtley Ambrose and Courtney Walsh. In a game they had to win to stay in the 1999 Cricket World Cup, the eventual cup-winners Australia chased down South Africa's 271 for seven after being 48 for three. Steve Waugh, who had been dropped by Herschelle Gibbs as he attempted to throw the ball up in celebration, scored 120 not out. [3] In 2000, England dismissed the West Indies for 61 to win by an innings, with Andrew Caddick taking four wickets in an over. In August 2001, England successfully chased 315 to beat the all-conquering Australians, with Mark Butcher scoring an unbeaten 173 as England won by six wickets. [4] Owning the groundIn December 2005 Yorkshire County Cricket Club obtained a loan of £9 million from Leeds City Council towards the cost of purchasing the cricket ground for £12 million. [5]. Shortly afterwards 98.37% of members who participated in a vote backed the deal [6]. On The 11th January 2006 the club announced plans to rebuild the stand next to the rugby ground with 3,000 extra seats, taking capacity to 20,000 [7]. The club also announced plans to redevelop the Winter Shed (North) stand on 25th August 2006 providing a £12.5Million Pavillion Complex [8]. See alsoNotes
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