Roffey Cricket Club is a cricket club based in the
Roffey
Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...
suburb of the town of
Horsham in
West Sussex
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,
England
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. Founded in 1904, the club's first XI plays in the Premier League of the
Sussex Cricket League which is an accredited
ECB Premier League
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, the highest level of recreational
club cricket
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in England and Wales.
The First XI have won the Sussex Premier League five times out of the last six seasons (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 & 2019) and were second in 2017. They were unbeaten in the league in the 2019 season.
In addition, the Second XI were Division III champions and have been promoted to Division II for the 2020 season, the highest Division available to them and the Third XI were Division VIII champions and have been promoted to Division VII for the 2020 season.
History
The first known cricket match arranged under the name of Roffey was played in May 1901 against
Barns Green. Occasional matches were held during the next three years until Roffey Cricket Club was formed in 1904. The inaugural meeting was held in the Norfolk Arms public house in Roffey, chaired by W. Barnham. In 1932 the 3.3 acre cricket field was left in trust to the people of Roffey in memory of Colonel Innes and the ground officially became the Innes Memorial Ground.
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In the mid 1970s Roffey joined the Arun Valley League, which the club went on to win five times before leaving in 1996 to participate in the Sussex Invitation League. In 2001, Roffey were invited to join the Sussex Cricket League.]
Honours
1st XI
* Sussex Cricket League Premier Division
** Champions 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
See also
* Horsham Cricket Club
Horsham Cricket Club is one of the oldest cricket clubs in the world and represents the Sussex market town of Horsham in the Sussex Cricket League, along with Roffey Cricket Club.
Although cricket was played in Horsham before 1768, the first reco ...
, the other prominent cricket club in Horsham
References
Cricket in West Sussex
Club cricket teams in England
Horsham
1904 establishments in England
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