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Swarkestone Cricket Club
Swarkestone Cricket Club is a cricket club based in Swarkestone, 5 miles south of Derby, and has a history dating back to the early 20th century. Ground The home ground is located at Barrow Turn in Swarkestone, Derbyshire and has 2 all-weather net facilities. The 1st and 2nd XI teams use Barrow Turn, rated by the DCCL as a Grade A+ ground, and the 3rd XI have access to the Aston-on-Trent Cricket Club ground off Shardlow Road, rated a Grade A ground. History The club originally played at Ingleby before locating to Swarkestone in the 1930s. By 1990, the club joined Derbyshire County Cricket League. The 1st XI team entered the Derbyshire Premier Division in 2012 and finished 2nd in the club's first ever year in the top flight of the Derbyshire League. Since then, the Club has won the Derbyshire County League Championship twice: 2013 & 2016. See also * Club cricket Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal, form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swarkestone
Swarkestone is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 187. Swarkestone has a very old village church, a full cricket pitch, a plant nursery/ garden centre and restaurant called "Swarkestone Nursery", the ''Crewe and Harpur'' pub, a canal with a Georgian lock keepers cottage and moorings. It was mentioned twice in Domesday as ''Sorchestun'' or ''Suerchestune'', when it was worth twenty shillings.''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.742 & 749 History The village Evidence of the Beaker people living near Swarkestone was discovered in the 1950s. At that time it was estimated that people had lived near Swarkestone for at least 3,800 years. The only surviving Bronze Age barrow cemetery in the Trent valley is at Swarkestone Lows near the A50. The barrow is a registered national monument. In the Domesday Book, Swarkestone was held by the King (William the conqueror) and by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derby
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gained city status in 1977, the population size has increased by 5.1%, from around 248,800 in 2011 to 261,400 in 2021. Derby was settled by Romans, who established the town of Derventio, later captured by the Anglo-Saxons, and later still by the Vikings, who made their town of one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era. Home to Lombe's Mill, an early British factory, Derby has a claim to be one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution. It contains the southern part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry. Derby is a centre for advanced transport manufactur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derbyshire County Cricket League
The Premier Division of the Derbyshire County Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Derbyshire, England, and is a designated ECB Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo .... The Premier League was founded in 2000 as a separate league from the Derbyshire County Cricket League, and at that time was called the Derbyshire Premier Cricket League. The two leagues amalgamated before the 2016 season, and the Derbyshire Premier Cricket League became the Premier Division of the Derbyshire County Cricket League. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingleby, Derbyshire
Ingleby is a hamlet (place), hamlet and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England, situated to the south of the River Trent on a rise between Stanton by Bridge and Repton. It is the location of Anchor Church Derbyshire, Anchor Church,Derby City page on the Anchor Church a small series of caves in the sandstone which were the homes of anchorites. The word Ingleby means 'Village of the English'.Tribes of Britain, David Miles, Phoenix Books, 2006, p215 Nearby places include Stanton by Bridge, Ticknall and the Foremark Reservoir. Ingleby hosts the Ingleby Art Gallery, /ref> and the privately owned John Thompson public house. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Cricket
Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal, form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the evening. There is a great deal of variation in game format although the Laws of Cricket are observed. The main nations that club cricket is played in include Pakistan, England, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Netherlands, Hong Kong and in some of the major cities in India. Club cricket is also now played in the United States and Canada, as both countries have large communities of immigrants from mainstream cricket-playing regions such as the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia. Format Club cricket is usually played in league or cup format. Games are limited by either time or over (cricket), overs. A less common, but more traditional, format is limiting the game by time only. Games can range from a few hours in the evening to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket In Derbyshire
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Club Cricket Teams
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
