Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty

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county clubs within the domestic

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structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

. The team is currently a member of the

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Western Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Cheshire played

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matches occasionally until 2004 but is not classified as a List A team ''per se''. The club does not have a base but plays matches around the county including at Chester Boughton Hall,

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, Nantwich,

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, Grappenhall, Tattenhall and at Moss Lane, Alderley Edge.

Honours

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

Earliest cricket

Cricket may not have reached

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.

Origin of club

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. Champion_stand_in_1921

Club history

Cheshire played its first

match against

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on 6 May 1964, in the first round of the Gillette Cup at the Ellerman Lines Cricket Ground, Hoylake. 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

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. 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

* Warren Goodwin * Calum Rowe *

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* Jack Williams * Ash Davis * Danny Woods

Notable players

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

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* Bob Barber * Winston Benjamin * Bob Cooke * Geoff Miller * Mudassar Nazar * Chris Schofield * Barry Wood The following Cheshire cricketers are famous for non-cricketing reasons. *

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(MBE): ex-Rugby League referee

References

External links

{{minor counties National Counties cricket History of Cheshire Cricket clubs established in 1908 Cricket in Cheshire 1908 establishments in England