The British Columbia Mainland Cricket League (BCMCL) was founded in 1914 by seven founding member clubs. It is a competitive
cricket
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league and is known for its scenic
cricket grounds, most notably
Stanley Park
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. According to the league's president, Inamul Desai, the BCMCL is the largest cricket league in
North America.
Organization
In 2019, the league hosted 89
teams (including junior teams), which played 1100 games in the regular season, which lasts from the end of April to mid-September.
The teams are organized into nine divisions.
At the end of the season,
playoff
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s against the top two teams in each division are held, in which teams compete to move up in the division. Teams that end the season at the bottom of their division are relegated to the lower level.
Teams
The current list of regular season teams, organized by division, as of 2017. A total of 29 cricket clubs representing local cities and organizations compete in the league. Many of these clubs field multiple teams, denoted by a
Roman numeral
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suffix.
See also
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Canada national cricket team
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Cricket in Canada
References
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 str ...
Canadian domestic cricket competitions
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