Roses Match

In the match played over the Whitsuntide bank holiday in June 1924 Lancashire were skittled for just 74 in their second innings, leaving Yorkshire a target of just 58 the next day.

At the Old Trafford Roses Match in 1926, a record 78,617 spectators paid to watch the match peter out into a high scoring draw, with centuries from Lancashire's Harry Makepeace (126), Ernest Tyldesley (139) and 92 from Frank Watson being answered by Yorkshire legends Percy Holmes (143) and Herbert Sutcliffe (89) who put on 199 as if to make amends for events 2 years previously.

The ball was hurled back in anger by Yorkshire legend Emmott Robinson, striking Rhodes on the wrist while Green dived to make his ground.

"[2]Lancashire finally surpassed their 1926 record total of 509 for 9 declared in 2005 in another high scoring draw when they posted 537 thanks to skipper Mark Chilton and Iain Sutcliffe's opening partnership of 223.

In 2021 Lancashire matched the exact total from 2005 going 509/9(dec) with huge efforts from Keaton Jennings 114(260) a rapid fire 52(57) from Alex Davies & Josh Bohannon 127(277).

There have been many outstanding bowling performances in Roses Matches, not least Jack Iddon's 9 for 42 for Lancashire in 1937 while the brilliant Yorkshire left arm spinner Johnny Wardle took 9 for 25 on a rain-affected pitch at Old Trafford in 1954.

The 1987 Roses match at Old Trafford, parts of which were so televised, produced a notably tense climax, Yorkshire's last pair of Richard Blakey and Stuart Fletcher hanging on in an unbroken stand of 38 to avoid defeat.

Australian Darren Lehmann smashed 252 in just 288 balls in the Headingley Roses Match in 2001,[4] the season in which Yorkshire regained the County Championship for the first time in over 30 years.

Yorkshire's Adam Lyth scored a career-best 251 in the fixture in September 2014, contributing to a record 6th wicket partnership of 296 with Adil Rashid.

[6] In June 2015, Jos Buttler led Lancashire Lightning to a last-ball victory over Yorkshire Vikings at Headingley in the most dramatic Twenty20 Rose match to date.