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The home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the local rugby league side. A huge sporting complex in a west Leeds suburb, but its days of hosting international sport could be
numbered if Yorkshire move to a new ground.
The Headingley pitch is traditionally a green seamer and one that favours the quick bowlers. The vociferous supporters that populate the western terrace can match what the pitch
produces in fireworks. Many players, both English and foreign, have received the odd word of advice from the hard core Headingley supporters.
The ground has scene some dramatic matches. In 1930 and again in 1934 Don Bradman scored a triple hundred in Leeds. Geoff Boycott scored his hundredth hundred here in 1977 against
Australia and the Headingley crowd witnessed Ian Botham's assault on the Aussies in 1981.
Last summer it hosted a two-day Test when England hammered the West Indies by an innings.
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