The Barnt Green Cricket Club is an amateur
cricket
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 striki ...
club in
Barnt Green
Barnt Green is a village and civil parish in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire, England, situated south of Birmingham city centre, with a population at the 2011 census of 1,794.
History
Originating from the development of the railway ...
, near
Bromsgrove
Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about northeast of Worcester and southwest of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 (39,644 in the wider Bromsgrove/Catshill urban area). Bromsgrove is the main town in the ...
in North
Worcestershire. The club are fortunate enough to own two grounds in close proximity to one another and have both artificial and grass practice areas. The 1st XI and 2nd XIs currently play in the
Worcestershire County Cricket League and
Birmingham and District Premier League. The 3rd and 4th XIs play in the
Worcestershire County Cricket League. They were the last club to be invited into the Old Birmingham League set-up before the pyramid system was introduced, replacing Mitchells and Butlers Cricket Club, and won the Division 1 title in their first season, in 1995. They also won the Division 1 title in 1997, and the Premier Division title (after the introduction of the pyramid system in 1999) in 2005 and 2011. They were runners-up in the
ECB National Club Cricket Championship in 2002 and 2005.
They play their home games at Cherry Hill Road, Barnt Green, which is also used by
Worcestershire County Cricket Club 2nd XI. Former internationals who have played for the club include
Grant Flower,
Richard Illingworth,
Dougie Brown
Douglas Robert Brown (born 29 October 1969) is a Scottish former cricketer and former head coach of the United Arab Emirates national team. Brown represented the Scottish national team as an all-rounder at One Day International (ODI) and Tw ...
and
Gus Mackay.
In 2016 the boys U15 team appeared in the ECB National Club championships final. They were successful in beating St Cross Symondians CC by 107 runs to clinch the trophy for the first time in the club's history.
Club cricket teams in England
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