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Weston-super-Mare 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 st ...
club based in the town of Weston-super-Mare,
Somerset ( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lor ...
,
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. Since the club's formation in 1845, they have nurtured a number of players who have gone on to play for
Somerset County Cricket Club Somerset County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Somerset. Founded in 1875, Somerset was initially regarded as a minor ...
and a select few who have gone on to play for the
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. The first team currently play in the West of England Premier League, an ECB
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, the highest level of recreational
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in England and Wales. The club's finest hour came in 1986, when they were runners-up in the
ECB National Club Cricket Championship The ECB National Club Cricket Championship is a forty over limited overs knockout club cricket competition in England. The most successful clubs have been Scarborough, from North Yorkshire, with five titles and Old Hill, from Staffordshire, with ...
, losing to
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at
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. The club's home matches are played at the Devonshire Park Ground in Weston-super-Mare, which has hosted two
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matches involving
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in the
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, and several other matches involving Somerset's Second XI.


Senior honours

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ECB National Club Cricket Championship The ECB National Club Cricket Championship is a forty over limited overs knockout club cricket competition in England. The most successful clubs have been Scarborough, from North Yorkshire, with five titles and Old Hill, from Staffordshire, with ...
**Runners-Up (1): 1986 * West of England Premier League **Premier One Runners-Up (1): 2009 **Premier Two Winners (1): 2006 **Premier Two Runners-Up (2): 2002, 2013 **Somerset Division Winners (1): 2017 **Premier One 2nd XI Runners-Up (1): 2008 **Premier Two 2nd XI Winners (3): 2001, 2002, 2012 *Western League **Winners (1): 1991 **Runners-Up (2): 1989, 1990 **2nd XI Championship Winners (3): 1989, 1990, 1991 *Alliance League **1st XI Winners (1): 1986 **2nd XI Winners (1): 1986 *Somerset Cricket League **Premier Division Winners (1): 1985 **Premier Division Runners-Up (1): 1982 **Division One 2nd XI Winners (2): 1984, 1985 **Division One 2nd XI Runners-Up (2): 1982, 1983 **Division Six Runners-Up (1): 2017 *Somerset Major Cup **Winners (4): 1971, 1983, 2008, 2014 **Runners-Up (2): 2007, 2012 *Somerset Intermediate Cup **Winners (4): 1990, 1991, 1993, 2001 **Runners-Up (3): 2004, 2006, 2011 *Somerset Minor Cup **Winners (3): 1984, 1985, 1986 *Steelstock Major Cup **Winners (3): 1987, 1989, 1991 *Steelstock Minor Cup **Winners (2): 1986, 1988 * North Somerset Cricket League **Division 1 Winners (3): 1984, 1991, 1995 **Division 2 Winners (1): 1983 **Division 3 Winners (1): 1984 **Division 3 Runners-Up (1): 2008 *Somerset Ladies Cricket League **Winners (4): 1998, 2007, 2010, 2011 **Runners-Up (2): 2006, 2013


Youth honours

*North Somerset Youth Cricket League **U17 Winners (11): 1985, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 **U17 Runners-Up (2): 2001, 2011 **U15 Winners (9): 1985, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2017, 2019 **U13 Winners (8): 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2019 **U11 Winners (7): 1995, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2015 **U11 Runners-Up (1): 2017 *North Somerset Youth Cricket Cup **U17 Winners (18): 1965, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2011 **U15 Winners (6): 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2019 **U13 Winners (8): 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2018, 2019 *North Somerset Youth Cricket Plate **U15 Winners (1): 2017 **U13 Winners (1): 2017 **U13 Runners-Up: 2019


Notable current and former players

* Nick Evans - Formerly of
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Ryan Davies Ryan Davies (22 January 1937 – 22 April 1977) was a Welsh comedian, actor, musician, singer, and songwriter. Though his career lasted just 11 years, he became widely known in Wales through his work with Ronnie Williams as the comedic double a ...
- Formerly of Durham,
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, England U19s and
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* Robin d'Souza - Currently of the Goa cricket team * Gemaal Hussain - Formerly of
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and
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*
Jon Moss Jonathan Aubrey Moss (born 11 September 1957) is an English drummer, best known as a member of the 1980s new wave group Culture Club. He has also played with other bands, including London, the Nips, the Damned and Adam and the Ants. Early ...
- Formerly of Victorian Bushrangers and
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*
Michael Munday Michael Kenneth Munday (born 22 October 1984) is an English cricketer who played for Somerset until 2010. He is a leg break bowler and lower order right-handed batsman. Munday was born at Nottingham and made his Minor Counties debut for Cor ...
- Formerly of
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* Perry Rendell - Formerly of
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& Combined Universities * Brian Rose - Formerly of
Somerset County Cricket Club Somerset County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Somerset. Founded in 1875, Somerset was initially regarded as a minor ...
and
England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...
, and previously
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Director of Cricket * David Stiff - Formerly of
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,
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,
Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire ...
and
Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
* Peter Trego - Formerly of
Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...
,
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,
Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
and
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* Rob Turner - Formerly of
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and England A * Simon Turner - Formerly of
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*
Charl Willoughby Charl Myles Willoughby (born 3 December 1974) is a retired South African cricketer who played two Tests and three One Day Internationals for South Africa between 2000 and 2003. He played for Boland and Western Province before spending two s ...
- Formerly of
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,
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,
Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire ...
&
Essex Essex () is a Ceremonial counties of England, county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the Riv ...
* Paul van Meekeren - Currently of
Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of ...
and Holland, formerly of Somerset and Durham.


References


External links


Weston-super-Mare Cricket Club
- official site
West of England Premier League
- official site
North Somerset Cricket League
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