Cheshire County Cricket Club

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Cheshire County Cricket Club

Personnel
Captain| 3-day:  Robert Sehmi

50 over:  Will Evans

T20:  Nick Anderson
Coach|  Stewart MacLeod
Team information
Founded| 1908
History
MCCC wins| 5
MCCAT wins| 3
FP Trophy wins| 1
Official website| Cheshire County Cricket Club

Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty national county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Cheshire.

The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Cheshire played List A matches occasionally until 2004 but is not classified as a List A team per se.[1] The club does not have a base but plays matches around the county including at Chester Boughton Hall, Didsbury, Nantwich, New Brighton, Grappenhall, Tattenhall and at Moss Lane, Alderley Edge.

## Honours

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* Minor Counties Championship (5) - 1967, 1985, 1988, 2007, 2013; shared (2) - 2001, 2005
* MCCA Knockout Trophy (4) - 1983, 1987, 1996, 2018
* MCCA T20 Cup (1) - 2015

## Earliest cricket

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Cricket may not have reached Cheshire until the 18th century. As advised by the Association of Cricket Statisticians (ACS), the earliest known reference to the sport being played in the county has been found in the Manchester Journal dated Saturday, 1 September 1781. It concerned an eleven-a-side match played the previous Monday, 27 August, at Brinnington Moor between a team of printers and one representing the villages of Haughton and Bredbury, who were the winners. As Haughton was then in Lancashire, the match is the earliest reference for that county too.[2][3]

## Origin of club

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According to Wisden there was a county organisation as early as 1819. The present club was founded on 29 September 1908 and entered the Minor Counties Championship for the first time the following year, 1909.[4]

HW Hodgson and WE Jones in 1921 pose for the camera after adding an unbeaten 218 v Durham at Burnmoor

## Club history

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Cheshire played its first List A match against Surrey on 6 May 1964, in the first round of the Gillette Cup at the Ellerman Lines Cricket Ground, Hoylake.[5] Cheshire has won the Minor Counties Championship five times, and twice shared the title. It won the title outright in 1967, 1985, 1988, 2007 and 2013. It shared the accolade in 2001 with Lincolnshire and in 2005 with Suffolk.

Cheshire has won the MCCA Knockout Trophy three times since its inception in 1983. It won in 1983, 1987 and 1996.

Cheshire won the MCCA T20 Cup in 2015, the first season in which it was held. The tournament was dropped for 2016.

## Current squad

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* Warren Goodwin
* Calum Rowe
* Rick Moore (c)
* Danny Leech (c)
* Rob Jones
* Danny Lamb
* Will Owen
* Ryan Brown
* Jack Williams
* Ash Davis
* Danny Woods

## Notable players

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The following Cheshire cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game:

* David Bailey
* Bob Barber
* Winston Benjamin
* Bob Cooke
* Geoff Miller
* Mudassar Nazar
* Chris Schofield
* Barry Wood

The following Cheshire cricketers are famous for non-cricketing reasons.

* Stuart Cummings (MBE): ex-Rugby League referee[6]

## Further reading

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* Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
* E W Swanton (editor), Barclays World of Cricket, Guild, 1986
* Playfair Cricket Annual – various editions
* Wisden Cricketers' Almanack – various editions

## References

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1. ^ "List A events played by Cheshire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
2. ^ Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, page 266. Eyre & Spottiswoode (1960).
3. ^ G. B. Buckley, Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket, page 10. Cotterell (1937).
4. ^ Bowen, p.370
5. ^ "List A Matches played by Cheshire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
6. ^ Wilson, Andy (4 March 2014). "ECB hires rugby league's Stuart Cummings to work with umpiring panel". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.

## External links

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Media related to Cheshire County Cricket Club at Wikimedia Commons

* Cheshire portal

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Players|

* Current squad
* List A players
* Category:Cheshire cricketers

Grounds|

| Current grounds|

* Boughton Hall Cricket Club Ground, Boughton
* Moss Lane, Alderley Edge
* Werneth Low, Hyde
* Whitehouse Lane, Nantwich

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Previous grounds|

* Cale Green, Stockport
* Park Drive, Birkenhead
* Townfield Lane, Oxton
* Rookwood, Sale
* Alexandra Athletic Ground, Crewe
* Winnington Park, Northwich
* The Recreation Ground, Bollington
* South Downs Road, Bowdon
* Gorse Hall Road, Dukinfield
* Rake Lane, Wallasey
* Aigburth Cricket Ground, Liverpool
* Victoria Road, Macclesfield
* Kingsley Fields, Nantwich
* Parkgate Cricket Ground, Parkgate
* Haddon Field, Middlewich
* Stockport Road, Timperely
* Cheadle Sports Club, Cheadle
* Brooklands Sports Club, Sale
* Luke and Spencers Ground, Altrincham
* Ellerman Lines Cricket Ground, Hoylake
* London Midland Railway Sports Club Ground, Crewe
* Vicarage Road, Northwich
* Queensgate, Bramhall
* Walton Lea Road, Warrington
* Grove Park, Cheadle Hulme
* Booth Park, Toft
* Old Greasby Road, Upton by Chester
* Broad Lane, Grappenhall
* Little Heath, Christleton
* Bowden Lane, Marple
* Church Lane, Woodford
* (Full list of grounds)

Captains|

* List of Cheshire County Cricket Club captains

Records|

* Cheshire List A cricket records

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Competitions|

* National Counties Cricket Championship
* NCCA Knockout Trophy
* National Counties T20

Western Division|

* Berkshire
* Cheshire
* Cornwall
* Devon
* Dorset
* Herefordshire
* Oxfordshire
* Shropshire
* Wales National County
* Wiltshire

Eastern Division|

* Bedfordshire
* Buckinghamshire
* Cambridgeshire
* Cumbria
* Hertfordshire
* Lincolnshire
* Norfolk
* Northumberland
* Staffordshire
* Suffolk

Former National counties|

* Durham
* Glamorgan
* Northamptonshire
* Worcestershire

Defunct Minor counties|

* Carmarthenshire
* Channel Islands
* Denbighshire
* Monmouthshire

Other National counties|

* Huntingdonshire
* Isle of Wight

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* County Championship
* Bob Willis Trophy (defunct)

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One Day|

* One-Day Cup (Men, Women)
* ECB 40 (defunct)
* Pro40 (defunct)
* Benson & Hedges Cup (defunct)
* Friends Provident Trophy (defunct)
* Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy (defunct)
* Women's County Championship (defunct)

Twenty20|

* T20 Blast (Men, Women)
* Women's Twenty20 Cup
* Women's Cricket Super League (defunct)
* Charlotte Edwards Cup (defunct)

100 ball|

* The Hundred

Other|

* National Counties Championship
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* Second XI Championship
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