Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty

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clubs within the domestic

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structure of

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and

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. It represents the historic county of

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...

. The team is currently a member of the

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Western Division and plays in the

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. 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 Nantwich ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It has among the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England, with notably good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture ...

, New Brighton,

Grappenhall Grappenhall is a village within the civil parish of Grappenhall and Thelwall in the Borough of Warrington in Cheshire, England. The parish had a population of 9,377 at the 2001 census, 9,687 at the 2011 census, and 9,651 at the 2021 census. ...

, Tattenhall and at Moss Lane, Alderley Edge.

Honours

* Minor Counties Championship (5) - 1967, 1985, 1988, 2007, 2013; shared (2) - 2001, 2005 * 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

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, who were the winners. As Haughton was then in

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

, the match is the earliest reference for that county too.

Origin of club

According to ''

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'' 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

Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ...

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 Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

and in 2005 with

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

. Cheshire has won the

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 * Rick Moore (c) * Danny Leech (c) * Rob Jones * Danny Lamb * Will Owen * Ryan Brown * 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 Geoffrey Miller, (born 8 September 1952) is an English former cricketer, who played in 34 Test matches and 25 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1976 and 1984. Nicknamed "Dusty", he played for Derbyshire from 1973 to ...

Mudassar Nazar Mudassar Nazar (Urdu: مدثر نذر; born 6 April 1956) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer with a career in Test cricket for Pakistan and in league cricket in Pakistan and England. He was an all-rounder and opening batsman who ...

Chris Schofield Christopher Paul Schofield (born 6 October 1978) is an English cricketer, who played Tests and Twenty20 Internationals. Schofield is one of the few leg-spinners to play cricket for England in the 21st century. Early career Born on 6 October ...

* Barry Wood The following Cheshire cricketers are famous for non-cricketing reasons. * Stuart Cummings (MBE): ex-Rugby League referee

References

External links

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