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The Roses Match refers to any game of cricket played between Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Lancashire County Cricket Club. Yorkshire's emblem is the white rose, while Lancashire's is the red rose. The associations go back to the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century. These matches have a long and proud history and are traditionally the ...
Cricket: Roses Match – between Lancashire CCC and Yorkshire CCC. [7] Football: Roses Derby – between Leeds United and Manchester United. [8] Also describes games between other traditional East Lancashire and West Yorkshire clubs; Bradford City vs Burnley, Halifax Town vs Rochdale, and Huddersfield Town vs Oldham Athletic being well known ...
The Battle of the Roses also known as The Rugby Match or The Roses Match is an 1895 portrait by artist William Barnes Wollen. It is based on the rugby union match between the representative sides of Yorkshire and Lancashire played at Fallowfield, Manchester on 24 November 1894. It depicts the Yorkshire team in the all-white strip attacking ...
Red Rose of Lancaster White Rose of York. The rivalry is considered to be a sporting manifestation of the established rivalry between the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, which can loosely be traced back to the Wars of the Roses, [3] a series of civil wars fought between the rival Plantagenet royal houses of York and Lancaster for the throne of England during the 15th century.
Lancashire enjoyed the most successful period of their history in the late 1920s. They won the championship five times in nine seasons between 1926 and 1934. They forged a famous rivalry with neighbours Yorkshire which elevated the "Roses Match" to the status of England's greatest domestic fixture. In the whole inter-war period, there were only ...
The first recorded match on the ground was in 1864, when Whalley played an All-England Eleven. [2] Three years later the ground held the only first-class match to be played there, between Lancashire played Yorkshire in what was the first Roses Match.
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For the first time, the match was billed as "Yorkshire v Lancashire" and it is recognised as the first Roses Match. Yorkshire won by 5 wickets. Middlesex re-emerged as a county team in 1850, largely through the efforts of the Walker family that eventually founded the present Middlesex County Cricket Club.