33-668: Wales National County Cricket Club is one of the 20 county clubs that compete in the National Counties Cricket Championship . It represents all of the historic counties of Wales except Glamorgan , and is the only non-English team in the competition. The team is currently a member of the National Counties Cricket Championship Western Division, having joined in 1988 (under the name Wales Minor Counties ) after Somerset 's second eleven left
66-465: A "more private venue". He opened Lord's Old Ground in 1787 in Marylebone . The gentlemen moved their cricketing interests there and reinvented themselves as Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which is thus a direct continuation of the old London Cricket Club. Very little is known of London's players during its heyday, from the 1720s to the 1760s. The following are the names that have been recorded by
99-558: A divisional structure. Promotion and relegation is a feature throughout. London Cricket Club The original London Cricket Club was formed in 1722 and was one of the foremost clubs in English cricket over the next four decades, holding important match status . It is closely associated with the Artillery Ground , where it played most of its home matches. The earliest definite mention of cricket being played anywhere
132-515: A match whose scores have been preserved by the earliest known cricket scorecard. Slindon beat London again in September and proceeded to issue their audacious challenge to play against any parish in England. London did not take up the challenge: only Addington and Bromley felt able to respond. There was a noticeable increase in the popularity of single wicket contests in the late 1740s although
165-406: A nominal six hours each plus intervals, but often with the first two days lengthened by up to an hour and the final day shortened, so that teams with fixtures elsewhere on the following day could travel at sensible hours. The exception to this was the 1919 season, when there was an experiment with two-day matches played over longer hours, up to nine o'clock in the evening in mid-summer. This experiment
198-563: Is at Guildford in the 16th century and there can be little doubt that the game had reached London by that time. Even so, there is no written reference to the game in London until 1680. A publication called The Post Man reported from 21 June 1707 to 24 June 1707 that "two great matches at cricket (to be) plaid, between London and Croydon; the first at Croydon on Tuesday, July 1st, and the other to be plaid in Lamb's-Conduit-Fields, near Holborn, on
231-493: Is from Wales; and the National Counties Championship , which involves nineteen English county clubs and one club that represents several Welsh counties. County cricket started in the eighteenth century, the earliest known inter-county match being played in 1709, though an official County Championship was not instituted until 1890. Inter-county cricket was popular throughout the 18th century, although
264-413: Is identified with Middlesex and vice versa but, in general, London means the club and Middlesex was a team of players born in the county who were not necessarily of the London club. The club's best season may have been the 1732 season when it was unbeaten. As a report recounts after the final match: This is the thirteenth match the London gamesters have played this year and not lost one match . As
297-545: Is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales. The tournament currently has a two-division format with ten counties in Division One and eight in Division Two. The Royal London One-Day Cup is a 50 over one-day cricket competition in county cricket. The 18 English county sides are divided randomly into two groups of nine with each team playing each other once. The top four in each group reach
330-538: Is the last important one played there. Hambledon was already by then the predominant centre of English cricket and a lot of games were being played at other outlying venues such as Laleham Burway , Bourne Paddock and Sevenoaks Vine . London for the time being had been abandoned. It is reasonable to assume that the London Cricket Club was disbanded during the Seven Years' War. With its demise and
363-593: Is usually termed the Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Club , which had its headquarters at the Star and Garter on Pall Mall in London. This gentlemen's club was multi-functional, though essentially of a social and sporting nature, but its purpose was to encourage and enable gambling. For example, its members also founded the Jockey Club and were usually involved with organising big prizefighting events. Cricket throughout
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#1732780693856396-549: The 2011 season included: County cricket Inter- county cricket matches have been played since the early 18th century, involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales . Since the late 19th century, there have been two county championship competitions played at different levels: the County Championship , a first-class competition which involves eighteen first-class county clubs among which seventeen are English and one
429-677: The Seven Years' War from 1756 to 1763 and the number of matches played greatly reduced. There are signs of the game returning to its rural roots during this period and evidently the aristocrats were happy with that development. Apart from four matches in the 1769 English cricket season , there are few mentions of London as a team in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War and many of the references suggest that these teams were in fact occasional "London XIs" rather than representing an organised London club. The Artillery Ground itself began to be used less and less after 1763. A match on 15 September 1778
462-408: The 1730s progressed, London continued to be generally successful. From time to time, challengers appeared. Chertsey Cricket Club first made its mark in the 1736 season and London also had some tight contests against Chislehurst in the late 1730s. But the biggest challenge to London's dominance emerged in the 1741 season . This was Slindon which starred the great all-rounder Richard Newland and
495-479: The 18th century was funded by gambling interests and attracted huge stakes. Gambling has always had its unsavoury side and eventually the Artillery Ground became a place of ill-repute. The club members became uneasy about associating with a place that was widely known for licentious and, occasionally, riotous behaviour, even though it showcased cricket of the highest class. Cricket was severely impacted by
528-739: The MCC and the Champion County (the club that won the County Championship the previous year). When the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) plays against one of the first-class counties, the game is granted first-class status. The six MCC-sponsored University (MCCU) teams, were until 2020 also afforded first-class status for some of their matches against a first-class county. They were: Most of the first-class counties play three-day games against university cricket teams in
561-476: The Tuesday following, being the 3rd of July". No match reports could be found so the results and scores are unknown (3 July in 1707 was a Thursday). The 1707 London team may have been just an occasional XI as the foundation date of London Cricket Club is unknown. But it was in existence by 1722 when it was referred to in a match against Dartford . London Cricket Club was founded and organised by members of what
594-471: The best teams, such as Kent in the 1740s or Hampshire in the days of the famous Hambledon Club , were usually acknowledged as such by being matched against All-England . The most successful county teams were Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex , Surrey and Sussex . There was, however, often a crossover between town and county with some strong local clubs tending at times to represent a whole county. Examples are London , which often played against county teams and
627-634: The competition is called Vitality Blast for sponsorship reasons. The competitions of national counties cricket are the National Counties Cricket Championship and the NCCA Knockout Trophy . The Women's County Championship is played each year, in a similar manner to the men's, but the Women's county game focuses upon 50 over cricket. There was also the Women's Cricket Super League , a T20 competition. Some counties are involved, and feature in
660-600: The competition, and plays in the NCCA Knockout Trophy . Wales National County played List A matches occasionally from 1993 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se . Some Welsh counties formerly competed individually in the National Counties Cricket Championship. Glamorgan was easily the most successful and it became first-class in 1921. The others were Carmarthenshire from 1908 to 1911; Denbighshire from 1930 to 1935; and Monmouthshire from 1901 to 1934. Following
693-486: The counties of Wales other than Glamorgan. There are no representative teams carrying the names of the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland which are both covered by Cumbria . Present members are: Eastern Division Western Division Some teams outside of the English counties have been allowed to take part in some English county cricket one-day competitions. They include: The Huntingdonshire ( [REDACTED] ) club are academy level. An important year
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#1732780693856726-412: The earliest good players mentioned is "the famous Tim Coleman" who was referred as such in 1731 when it was rare to see any player named in the newspapers. London's main opponents in the 1730s were Croydon and Dartford . They played matches against various other parish clubs and sometimes took on county sides, mainly Kent , Surrey and Sussex . There is sometimes confusion in the reports when London
759-468: The early part of the English cricket season. This is partly because the start of the cricket season coincides with the end of the university academic year, and partly because the games act as pre-season warm-ups for the county clubs. The National Counties, known prior to 2020 as the Minor Counties, are the cricketing counties of England that are not afforded first-class status. A team represents
792-612: The majority of which were against first-class opponents. Wales National County lost the right to play List A cricket when the National Counties were excluded from the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy from the 2006 season onward. The following Wales Minor Counties/National County cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game or are of note in other fields: The club has no fixed home, but plays its home matches at various grounds across Wales. Grounds used for
825-469: The quarter-finals. The competition culminates at Lord's for the final. The Royal London One Day Cup replaced the Yorkshire Bank 40 over League. The first winners of the competition were Durham in 2014. The Twenty20 Cup is the top Twenty20 cricket competition contested by the eighteen first-class counties. The games are limited to 20 overs per side, and the emphasis is on fast action. From 2018,
858-401: The season in which they are first mentioned in the sources. In the 1720s, the London club seemed to share its time between Kennington Common and White Conduit Fields but it increasingly began to use the Artillery Ground from 1730. The 1730s were the glory days of London Cricket Club and it completely dominated the cricket scene, especially given its royal and aristocratic patronage. One of
891-658: The war situation, the "honourable gentlemen" retreated to the countryside and founded or at least augmented the Hambledon Club , which was the main centre of cricket from about 1765 for the next twenty years. In the early 1780s, the gentlemen decided to re-establish themselves in the vicinity of London and founded the White Conduit Club in Islington . But they were not happy about the environment of White Conduit Fields and commissioned Thomas Lord to find
924-468: The weather, thrashing Slindon by 184 runs in the second. It was London's turn to be thrashed in 1743 when they played another of the "great little clubs": Addington Cricket Club who, on their first appearance at the Artillery Ground, easily won by an innings and 4 runs. Addington did have the great player Robert Colchin as a given man. In 1744, Slindon were back and in June they beat London by 55 runs in
957-568: The withdrawal of the Somerset Second XI from National Counties cricket at the end of the 1987 season , Wales Minor Counties entered National Counties cricket for the 1988 season as their replacement. Wales National County is yet to win the National Counties Cricket Championship or the NCCA Knockout Trophy . The club first played List A cricket in the 1993 NatWest Trophy against Sussex . The club appeared in eighteen List A matches from 1993 to 2005, winning eight and losing ten,
990-458: Was 1873, when player qualification rules came into force, requiring players to choose at the start of each season whether they would play for the county of their birth or their county of residence. Before this, it was quite common for a player to play for both counties during the course of a single season. Three meetings were held, and at the last of these, held at The Oval on 9 June 1873, the following rules were decided on: The County Championship
1023-499: Was backed by the Duke of Richmond . After Slindon beat Surrey "almost in one innings" at the end of that season, it was inevitable they would come to the Artillery Ground and play London. This happened in 1742 when two matches were played against a background of furious gambling with huge wagers being laid against Newland's expected performance. London prevailed, winning the first match "with great difficulty" and then, having been assisted by
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1056-472: Was in some respects almost a county club in itself; Slindon , which was for a few years in the 1740s effectively representative of Sussex as a county; Dartford , sometimes representative of Kent; and the Hambledon Club , certainly representative of Hampshire and also perhaps of Sussex. One of the best county teams in the late 18th century was Berkshire , which no longer has first-class status. All matches prior to 1988 were scheduled for three days, normally of
1089-567: Was not repeated. From 1988 to 1992 some matches were played over four days. From 1993 onward, all matches have been scheduled for four days. The eighteen first-class counties are the top league cricket teams. They are named after historic English counties and include one Welsh county . The first-class counties are: The full name of each club is the name of the county followed by the words County Cricket Club, often abbreviated as CCC. The opening first-class game of an English county cricket season has traditionally been played at Lord's between
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