Headingley, Leeds: cricket results and records

Headingley, Leeds appears in 239 recorded matches, the first on 1 July 2003 and the latest on 24 September 2026. The matches are 131 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 61 in the County Championship, 21 in One Day Internationals, 19 in Test matches and 7 in Twenty20 Internationals. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (45 matches), County Championship (30 matches) and NatWest T20 Blast (26 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Yorkshire (143 matches), England (41 matches), Northern Superchargers (39 matches) and Lancashire (19 matches).

Of the 239 matches, 207 produced a winner, 27 were drawn, 2 were tied and 3 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 726/7 by Yorkshire against Northamptonshire on 26 September 2024.

The lowest completed total is 67 by England against Australia on 22 August 2019.

In the 154 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 92 (59.7%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are A Lyth (6,487 runs in 175 innings), JM Bairstow (3,143 runs in 79 innings), HC Brook (2,961 runs in 80 innings), JE Root (2,872 runs in 60 innings) and DJ Malan (2,433 runs in 58 innings).

The leading wicket takers are AU Rashid (124 wickets), BO Coad (123 wickets), JA Brooks (122 wickets), SA Patterson (119 wickets) and TT Bresnan (116 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 285 by JH Wharton against Northamptonshire on 26 September 2024, 246 by JM Bairstow against Hampshire on 17 April 2016 and 238 by KK Jennings against Yorkshire on 12 May 2022.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 76 by BM Cliff against Somerset on 15 September 2026, 7 for 32 by MG Neser against Yorkshire on 4 May 2023 and 7 for 41 by KJ Abbott against Yorkshire on 7 April 2017.

The first innings of 19 Test matches matches here averaged 285.3 runs.

In 19 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 272.8 and the side batting second 243.5.

In 130 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 170.3 and the side batting second 149.8.

The first innings of 60 the County Championship matches here averaged 323.6 runs.

The toss is recorded in 239 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 123 (51.5%) and to bat in 116.

Among the 207 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 98 times (47.3%).

Batters at the ground hit 14,629 fours and 2,306 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 10.4 balls; 58.5% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 62%, bowled 17%, lbw 13%, run out 4% and caught and bowled 3% of the 4,477 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 65%, bowled 17%, lbw 14%, caught and bowled 3% and stumped 2% of the 4,296 times.

That is 70.9 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (11), 2010s (89) and 2020s (139).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (45 matches), County Championship (30 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (26 matches), The Hundred Men's Competition (24 matches), The Hundred Women's Competition (23 matches), Specsavers County Championship (19 matches), Vitality Blast Men (13 matches) and LV= County Championship (12 matches).