Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.

The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.

Brearley surprisingly agreed to be reappointed before the Third Test at Headingley.

However, England won the Test, and the one at Headingley, to win the series 2-1, Cronje finished the series as South Africa's top scorer with 401 runs at 66. 83.

Mike Brearley, the captain whom Botham had replaced, took up the reins again for the Third Test scheduled for 16 to 21 July, at Headingley.

The Old Trafford Test was less of a turnaround and more of a team effort than the previous two Tests, but Botham again was England's hero hitting yet another century in what Lillee claimed to be a better innings than his Headingley heroics.

Beginning with a century at Headingley in his First Test against England, Taylor amassed 839 runs at 83. 90 in the six Tests: the second best aggregate in an Ashes series in England, behind Don Bradman's 974 runs in 1930.

On the opening day of the Fourth Test at Headingley ( Leeds ), England were out for 200, but Australia slumped to 3 / 39, losing the third wicket from the last ball of the day.

Australia's opportunity came at Headingley, a Test described by Bradman as the best he ever played in.

In the Fourth Test at Headingley, Waugh's 157 not out earned comparisons to his efforts in 1989 and he shared an unbroken stand of 332 with Allan Border.

After this incident Atherton and England headed to Headingley for the second Test.

The highlight of the tour is Bradman's remarkable innings at Headingley in the Third Test when he makes 309 not out in a single day ( his final score is 334 ).

He took 4 / 84 and 0 / 117 in the Third Test at Trent Bridge and 3 / 143 in the Fourth at Headingley, but the West Indies won them both to go 3-0 up in the series and the formidable Brian Close was made captain for the final Test.

At Headingley Keith Fletcher made his Test debut and dropped two catches in the slips off Snow ( 3 / 98 ), one to his right and one to his left.

In the Third Test at Headingley there was a problem when Illingworth asked Snow to " give me everything you've got " when the West Indians were 240 / 7 needing 303 to win, but Snow found the pitch lifeless, changed to medium-paced seamers, failed to take a wicket and Illingworth was not best pleased.

In the First Test at Trent Bridge Snow took 3 / 23 as New Zealand were shot out for 97 in the first innings and lost by 38 runs, but went for 2 / 104 in the second innings and 3 / 109 at Lords before bouncing back with 2 / 52 and 3 / 34 in the innings victory at Headingley.

Snow was dropped for the Third Test at Old Trafford, which England lost by 425 runs, but was recalled for his final Test at Headingley.

* July 15-England defeat the West Indies at Headingley in the Third Test Match to win the series 2-0

In the Fourth Test at Headingley, Sobers scored 114 and 59 as his team won by two wickets.

In the Third Test at Headingley Smith made 3 and was dropped.

" He also made visits to his sister at Headingley, during which he visited the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth, where he was " chiefly impressed by a pair of Charlotte Brontë's cloth-topped boots, very small, with square toes and lacing up at the sides.

On 8 and 9 June 1967, he made his highest Test score of 246 not out against India on his home ground of Headingley.

In the First Test at Headingley Dexter selected four fast bowlers and no spinners for the team, advised Gower to put Australia in to bat, only to see them made 601 / 7 and win by 210 runs.

He made his debut for England on Thursday, 5 June in the First Test against India at Headingley.

Headingley also boasts an amateur Association Football team, Old Headingley AFC which is made up of engineering students from Leeds Metropolitan University.

Headingley Development Trust ( HDT ) is an organisation, made up of concerned local residents and small businesses, formed with the aim of promoting and developing a sustainable community in Headingley.

The series was sealed at Headingley in the Fourth Test when Border made 200 not out.

She made her top score of 209 not out against England at Headingley in 2001, setting a world record.

Woodfull made a duck in the fourth Test at Headingley, but another Bradman triple century put them in control before rain shortened the match ; England still needed 155 runs to make Australia bat again with only four wickets in hand when the match ended.

Brearley's extraordinary galvanising of Botham is regarded as one of the greatest feats of sporting psychology of all time: Botham recovered from personal ridicule following his winless captaincy record and his nosedive in form ( he had made a pair in the second Test at Lord's ) to take a first-innings 6 for 95 and score 50 and his famous 149 not out in the third Test at Headingley, bowl a spell of 5 wickets for 1 run in the fourth Test at Edgbaston, score 118 from 102 balls in the fifth Test at Old Trafford, and take a 10-wicket match haul ( 6 for 125 and 4 for 128 ) in the sixth Test at the Oval.

During the tour of England in 1987, Malik fell for 99 at Headingley and made 102 at The Oval.

York again made the final of the Yorkshire cup in 1935 but were beaten by Leeds 3-0 at Halifax but were back the next year this time beating Wakefield Trinity 9-2 in a final held at Headingley.

He struggled in the Test arena and made only one century, an innings of 113 vs Pakistan at Headingley in 1996.

His 256 in the Fourth Test at Old Trafford in 1964 is the highest post-war century for England against Australia, he twice made centuries in four successive Tests and was the first England batsmen to make hundreds on all six traditional Test grounds ; Old Trafford, Edgbaston, Headingley, Lords, Trent Bridge and the Oval.

At Headingley in the first of these three games as captain, Tennyson split his hand while fielding in the Australians ' first innings but, patched up with what Wisden called a " basket guard ", he made 63 and 36.

He made his Test match debut against the South Africans at Headingley in 1951, scoring 138, and was then a regular England player until forced out by illness at the end of the 1950s.

For example at Headingley in 1969 the West Indies were 219-3 chasing 280 when Illingworth's inspired bowling change had Basil Butcher caught behind and wickets fell with just about every bowling change he made that afternoon.

Harvey made 11 as Australia were bowled out for 143 and forced to follow on in the Third Test played on a turning pitch at Headingley.

Fingleton made 30 and 9 in a low-scoring Fourth Test at Headingley, which Australia won by five wickets to retain the Ashes.

In 1930, Hutton watched the Australian Don Bradman hit 334 not out at Headingley in a Test match, then a record individual score in Tests — which Hutton himself would surpass eight years later.

It is the highest individual first-class innings at Headingley, surpassing Sir Donald Bradman's 334 against England in 1930, and the second highest for Yorkshire behind George Hirst's 341 against Leicestershire in 1905.