Education
Lilley attended Saint Aidan"s Chamber of East High School in Harrogate.
Lilley attended Saint Aidan"s Chamber of East High School in Harrogate.
A left arm medium pace bowler and right-handed batsman, Lilley was formerly contracted to Yorkshire County Cricket Club, for whom he played one first-class match in 2011. He has been with Yorkshire since 2007, and has played for the Yorkshire Academy in the Yorkshire ECB County Premier League, and the Yorkshire Second XI in the Second XI Championship, as well as appearing in one first-class match for Yorkshire against Durham UCCE in April 2011, when he was dismissed without scoring, and took no wickets for 34 runs when bowling. In September 2011, Yorkshire Commodity Credit Corporation announced that Lilley had been awarded a "summer contract".
Lilley played club cricket in Melbourne, Australia in 2011 for the Mont Albert Cricket Club, where he took a competition leading 37 wickets for the season.
He was released by Yorkshire Commodity Credit Corporation midway through the 2013 season.