The Durham Cricket Board is the governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Durham .
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98-618: A first-class county. In the 2004 season they finished bottom of the two-division County Championship, sixth out of ten teams in the one-day National Cricket League and fifth out of six teams in the Northern Division of the Twenty20 Cup . However, in 2005 under the captaincy of Australian Mike Hussey Durham finished second and achieved promotion in both the County Championship and the one-day National Cricket League. Hussey
147-668: A full List A team from 1992; and as a senior Twenty20 team since the format's introduction in 2003. Durham CCC competes in the Specsavers County Championship , the Royal London One-Day Cup and in the North Group of the NatWest t20 Blast . They won the County Championship in 2008 for the first time, retained the trophy in the 2009 season, and then won it for a third time in 2013. In one-day competition, they won
196-414: A scheduled 120 overs in a day (130 when the tournament began) necessitated some early starts. End of season early-morning conditions by the time of the final often favoured the team fielding first, who usually triumphed in the 1980s and 1990s. A rare exception occurred in 1996, when Lancashire bowlers Glen Chapple and Peter Martin triggered a remarkable collapse by Essex . In 1999 the number of overs
245-745: A short period following the 2006 season, the competition was known as the ECB One-Day Trophy because no sponsors were forthcoming when Cheltenham and Gloucester decided to end their association with the competition after the 2006 season. The tournament, along with the Pro40 forty-overs competition, was replaced by the ECB 40 competition from the 2010 season. It was the first top-level one-day competition to be introduced in English and Welsh cricket, amid concern about falling attendances at County Championship matches in
294-407: A sun soaked Riverside Ground in front of 5,000 jubilant supporters. For the 2011 season, Durham County Cricket Club wished to return to a more traditional arrangement and have insisted on a smart dress code including jackets for gentlemen at all games. In September 2013 Durham won the County Championship for a third time after beating Nottinghamshire by 8 wickets at Chester le Street. Durham won
343-602: Is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales . It represents the historic county of Durham . Founded in 1882, Durham held minor status for over a century and was a prominent member of the Minor Counties Championship , winning the competition seven times. In 1992, the club joined the County Championship and the team was elevated to senior status as an official first-class team. Durham has been classified as an occasional List A team from 1964, then as
392-628: The 2014 One-Day Cup , defeating Warwickshire by three wickets in the final at Lord's on 20 September 2014. During this period of success Durham saw a number of homegrown players go on to make an impact on the England side. Players such as Paul Collingwood (who was the first Durham CCC player to hit a Test century and double century and captained England to victory at the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 ), Steve Harmison , Liam Plunkett , Graham Onions , Ben Stokes (who became England Test captain in 2022) and Mark Wood formed part of successful England sides of
441-678: The Ashbrooke Ground, Sunderland. The club established an enviable record as a minor county : becoming the first minor county to beat a first-class county in the Gillette Cup (defeating Yorkshire in round one in 1973, and then in 1985 beating Derbyshire at the same stage); winning the Minor Counties Championship a record-equalling seven times between 1901 and 1984; and putting together a record of 65 matches without defeat between 1976 and 1982 that remains unbroken. Early in 1989,
490-522: The National Westminster Bank took over the sponsorship of the competition from Gillette. That year's final finished in a tie, with both sides scored 235. Derbyshire claiming the trophy from Northamptonshire by losing fewer wickets (Derbyshire 6 to Northants 9). Other last ball finishes in the final occurred in 1984 when Middlesex beat Kent , in 1985 when Essex beat Nottinghamshire , and in 1993 when Warwickshire beat Sussex . There
539-533: The Royal London One-Day Cup , and also yellow and blue colours in the t20 Blast . Durham is currently sponsored by several companies including Emirates and Port of Tyne , as well as 188Bet as their betting partner. The team was sponsored by Northern Rock prior to the bank's nationalisation in 2008. The club is based at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street , which is one of the newest additions to
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#1733086065681588-616: The 1965 final, and the domination of the 1979 final by the West Indies pair Viv Richards and Joel Garner , who helped Somerset to their first major trophy a few months after helping West Indies to win the World Cup , also at Lord's . Another West Indies international, Alvin Kallicharran , completed the first double century in the tournament in 1984, in a tie in which he remarkably also took six wickets. The necessity of aiming to complete
637-637: The 1966 competition until 1998, the maximum was 12. Minor Counties teams first competed in the 1964 season. The competition has been seen as a cricketing version of football's FA Cup (it being said that "the B&;H was always the League Cup final to the Gillette/NatWest's FA Cup "), with Minor Counties, Ireland and Scotland playing against the First Class Counties in the first round. Most times
686-641: The 2005 winners Hampshire Hawks in a game which started on 18 finishing a day later due to rain. The toss between Dale Benkenstein and Shane Warne was won by the latter who sent Durham into bat. Fellow Aussie Michael Di Venuto and wicket-keeper Phil Mustard opened the batting. Mustard looked strong from ball 1 but Di Venuto was a little shaky and was dismissed by Hampshire's West Indies international Daren Powell and caught by Michael Carberry . Ex-Scotland u-19 captain Kyle Coetzer and Shiv Chanderpaul made significant contributions (61 and 78 respectively),
735-566: The 2016 season, the county, which had finished fourth in Division One at the end of the season, were relegated to Division Two in place of the eighth place team, Hampshire . Durham were also placed under a salary cap administered by the ECB until 2020 and started the 2017 Championship season with a deduction of 48 points. The club's eligibility to bid to stage Test cricket at the Riverside Ground
784-409: The 21st Century, including the 2005 Ashes series , 2009 Ashes series , 2010 ICC World Twenty20 , 2010–11 Ashes series and 2015 Ashes series . Other Durham players to feature for England during this time included Phil Mustard , Scott Borthwick , Keaton Jennings and Mark Stoneman . Following a series of financial "bailout" payments made by the England and Wales Cricket Board to Durham during
833-554: The 50-over Friends Provident Trophy in 2007 and the inaugural 50-over Royal London One-Day Cup in 2014. Having been relegated from Division One of the County Championship as part of the conditions for a package of financial support from the ECB , Durham played in Division Two of the County Championship from 2017 to 2023, when they won promotion back to Division One. The club's limited overs kit colours are yellow and blue in
882-552: The England team which won the 2019 Cricket World Cup , with Stokes playing a starring role in the final in which he was named man of the match. The Riverside Ground hosted 3 games of the tournament. Durham reached the final of the 2021 One-Day Cup but lost by 58 runs in the final to Glamorgan . Stokes and Wood were also part of the England squad which won the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup . Other Durham players to earn England call ups in these years included Alex Lees , Matthew Potts and Brydon Carse . On 28 April 2022, Stokes
931-560: The English Test match circuit, hosting its first match – the second 2003 England v Zimbabwe Test – from 5 to 7 June. Cricket probably did not reach Durham until the 18th century. The earliest reference is a game at Raby Castle on or soon after 5 August 1751 between the Earl of Northumberland's XI and the Duke of Cleveland's XI. The game was commemorated by a ballad which starts: As it happens, there
980-573: The North Division and only managing 2 victories, both against Lancashire. The Pro40 campaign started fairly well, with Durham taking 4 points from the first 4 games with a win, a loss, a tie and a no result. However, several defeats left them needing a win against the champions elect, Essex , in the final game of the season. They managed the victory, but other results did not go their way and they ended up being relegated in 8th place. The Championship season also began with success, but mediocre results in
1029-472: The North and South Conferences. Matches were 50 overs per side, gaining two points for a win, one point for a no result and no points for a loss. Once the league positions were decided, the top teams from each Conference competed for the trophy in a final at Lord's . In the 2007 season this involved a semi-final knock-out stage, the winner in each conference playing the runners-up in the other. The league structure
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#17330860656811078-401: The club began the process of applying to become a first-class cricketing county and join the County Championship . First-class status was awarded on 6 December 1991, with Durham becoming the first new first-class county for 70 years. Their first season in the County Championship was the 1992 season. For over a decade after gaining their status, Durham were not distinguished by marked success as
1127-529: The conditions of a package of financial support announced in October 2016, the ECB imposed a number of sanctions on Durham County Cricket Club, including removal of the club's eligibility to bid to stage Test cricket at the Riverside Ground. The club will still be eligible to bid to host one-day and Twenty20 international matches. The Riverside hosted 3 games of the 2019 Cricket World Cup . This following table gives details of every venue at which Durham have hosted
1176-507: The early 1960s. The competition was based on the Midlands Counties Knockout Cup experiment of 1962, when Derbyshire , Leicestershire , Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire played one-innings-a-side matches which each lasted one day. The MCC decided to hold a limited-overs competition (65 overs-a-side) the following year for all first-class counties, sponsored by American safety razor company Gillette . The original title
1225-461: The established teams beat the part-timers but very occasionally there was some "giant killing". Between 1963 and 2005 there were 15 "upsets", including: Durham (at that time still a minor county) being the first in 1973 v Yorkshire ; Hertfordshire being successful on two occasions, beating Essex in 1976, and winning a bowl-out versus Derbyshire in 1991; and Herefordshire overcoming a Middlesex side featuring Andrew Strauss in 2001. However,
1274-437: The game. However, one other team could also be relegated. Nottinghamshire needed just 3 points to avoid the drop at the start of the matches, but only managed 1 point as they were soundly beaten by Sussex . This meant that Durham needed only to score 400 (for maximum batting points) and force a draw. At 191–6 this looked unlikely. But a record-breaking stand of 315 between Benkenstein and Ottis Gibson made it possible. Gibson
1323-655: The latter being run-out. Captain Benkenstein made a quickfire 61 off 43 deliveries. Durham finished their innings on 312–5. Michael Lumb and ex-captain John Crawley opened for the Hawks, the former departing for a golden duck, caught at second slip by Di Venuto. Zimbabwean Sean Ervine was next in, immediately edging to second slip in identical fashion leaving Ottis Gibson on a hat-trick . Kevin Pietersen survived that ball, but
1372-426: The majority of the time it was an opportunity for county sides to score very high scores against or bowl out cheaply Minor Counties opposition. One of the most famous matches in the competition was the 1971 Gillette Cup semi-final at Old Trafford , with David Hughes of Lancashire coming out to bat at 8.45 pm (before any floodlights) and scoring 24 in one over to beat Gloucestershire . That Lancashire team won
1421-402: The middle of the season left Durham hanging above the relegation zone by just half a point going into the last game of the season. Durham needed more points than their rivals Yorkshire , but looked in trouble when Darren Lehmann hit a career-best 339 in the first innings. Achieving just one bowling bonus point meant that Durham needed to score 400 without losing more than 5 wickets and then draw
1470-427: The name of 'Durham County' played an MCC team in 1876 and went on to take on the touring Australians in 1878, winning by 71 runs, and again in 1880, losing by an innings and 38, with the great Fred Spofforth taking 17 wickets for 66. Durham CCC was founded as an official entity on 23 May 1882, and the nascent club played its first competitive match on 12 June of that year, beating Northumberland by 4 wickets at
1519-708: The new ground at the Riverside, a spectacular location overlooked by Lumley Castle , in 1990, and the ground hosted its first game, Durham v Warwickshire , on 18 May 1995. Development of the Riverside Ground has continued until the present day, and in 2003 the Riverside Ground was raised to Test match status. The ground has been used for six England Test matches, against Zimbabwe in 2003, Bangladesh in 2005, two against West Indies in June 2007 and May 2009, an Ashes Test Match against Australia in 2013, and against Sri Lanka in 2016. England have won all six of these tests. As part of
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1568-457: The tournament three seasons in a row from 1970 to 1972. In June 1973, Durham became the first minor county to defeat a first-class county in the competition, when they beat Yorkshire by six wickets in round one. They then became the first minor county to defeat two first class counties, when they defeated Derbyshire at the same stage in 1985. This was the catalyst for the successful campaign that saw Durham gain first-class status in 1991. In 1981,
1617-484: Was " The First Class Knock Out Competition for the Gillette Cup ". The first match (which was also retrospectively identified as the first List A cricket match after that designation was developed), was a Preliminary Round match on 1 May 1963 at Old Trafford, Manchester with Lancashire facing Leicestershire . The match ended up lasting two days due to rain. Peter Marner scored the first century and Brian Statham
1666-578: Was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom. It was one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class counties competed each season. They were joined by teams from Scotland and Ireland . Lancashire won the title a record seven times. The competition was previously known as the Gillette Cup (1963–1980), the NatWest Trophy (1981–2000), and the C&;G Trophy (2000–2006). For
1715-485: Was a notable finish too in 1987 when Nottinghamshire 's unlikely victory over Northamptonshire was engineered by Richard Hadlee in his last season with the county. The tournament was always the more prestigious of the two "full length" one day cup competitions. The other was the Benson & Hedges Cup , which was abolished in 2002 and replaced with the Twenty20 Cup . At a time when county cricketers' exposure on television
1764-517: Was a return game soon afterwards at Stanwick, near Richmond, and that is the earliest reference to cricket in Yorkshire . The first recorded match of representative cricket in the county took place in 1848 at Sunderland , between an All England XII and a Bishopwearmouth 22. Despite their extra numbers the cricketers of Bishopwearmouth were comprehensively outplayed as All England's scores of 129 and 143 dwarfed their own 56 and 59. The first team to carry
1813-502: Was also removed although club will still be eligible to bid to host one-day and Twenty20 international matches. The decision led to a number of first team players leaving the club, including Borthwick and Stoneman (to Surrey) and Jennings (to Lancashire). However, some players who left following the relegation would later return as the club rebuilt, including Borthwick, Ben Raine and Paul Coughlin Ben Stokes and Mark Wood were part of
1862-407: Was appointed head coach of Durham on a three-year contract to the end of the 2025 season, succeeding James Franklin . Under Campbell Durham won the 2023 Division Two title to secure a return to Division One for the first time since the 2016 relegation. The club's acceptance into first-class cricket was made conditional on the building of a new Test match-standard cricket ground. Work began on
1911-437: Was cut to 50 per side to give English and Welsh cricketers more experience of playing matches the same length as One Day Internationals . In line with One Day International cricket, teams played in coloured clothing from 2005. The competition was revised into a league format from 2006. The eighteen English and Welsh first-class sides, plus Scotland and Ireland, were split into two groups of ten by geographical location known as
1960-441: Was expressed in 1990 when Phillip DeFreitas was initially overlooked for selection for the winter Ashes series , it being suggested at the time that he "surely booked his place on England's winter tour of Australia with an astonishing eight-over opening burst, which reduced Northants to an unbelievable 39 for five" in the final. Other notable individual performances included a brisk out-of-character century by Geoff Boycott in
2009-991: Was latterly played during the second half of the season. In August 2009, the ECB announced that from 2010 there would be one 40-overs per innings tournament replacing both the Pro40 and the Friends Provident Trophy. This along with the English County Championship and the Friends Provident t20 (a revised form of the Twenty20 Cup), would be English cricket's three domestic competitions. Gillette Cup NatWest Trophy C&G Trophy Friends Provident Trophy First class counties with no wins: Glamorgan and Leicestershire Durham CCC First-class One-day T20 Durham County Cricket Club (rebranded as Durham Cricket in February 2019)
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2058-658: Was limited, the final of the Gillette Cup/NatWest Bank Trophy was a relatively high-profile opportunity for some to make a case for national selection, especially as it often fell in early September, just before the announcement of an England winter tour party. Thus strong performances by Roland Butcher in the 1980 final, and Geoff Cook in 1981, may have assisted their subsequent selection and Test debuts. The strong performances of then young cricketers Angus Fraser and Mark Ramprakash for Middlesex in 1988 certainly raised their profiles. Conversely surprise
2107-547: Was named as England's new Test captain, replacing Joe Root . On 6 May 2022, in Stokes' first match since becoming England's captain, he hit 17 sixes against Worcestershire , setting a new record for sixes hit in a single innings of a match in the County Championship. Stokes scored 161 runs from 88 balls, which included the fastest century in first-class cricket by a Durham player. In December 2022, former Australia cricketer and Netherlands cricket team coach Ryan Campbell
2156-596: Was named man of the match for his spell of 3–24 at the start of the Hampshire innings, which included wickets with his first two deliveries. In September 2008, Durham claimed their first County Championship by winning their final match of the season at Canterbury, against Kent . Durham won the match by an innings, condemning Kent to be relegated, and moving 8 points clear of runners up, Nottinghamshire . Twelve months later, Durham retained their County Championship title defeating Nottinghamshire by an innings and 52 runs at
2205-487: Was out for 155, the highest first-class score in his career. Durham then collapsed again to 518 all out, needing work to be done in the second innings. This was provided by Garry Park , who hit a maiden first-class century (100*) as Durham played out a draw, leaving themselves and Yorkshire in the first division. During the 2007 season the club won its first major trophy, the Friends Provident Trophy , by beating
2254-570: Was prevented from returning to the Riverside in 2006 as he was contracted to the Australian international team; and with vice-captain Paul Collingwood away on English international team duty Dale Benkenstein was captain for 2006. Durham had mixed success in the 2006 season, finishing second in the North Division of the C&G Trophy . However, Durham were poor in the Twenty20 cup, finishing last in
2303-528: Was revised in 2008 as the twenty teams were split into four groups of five. Each team plays the other in the group home once and away once, with the top 2 counties in the group going into the quarter-finals. The competition was played in the first half of the cricket season with the final taking place in August. The other main domestic one-day competition, the Natwest Pro40 League (formerly "Sunday League"),
2352-410: Was soon back in the pavilion with 12. John Crawley managed a resilient 68 but was bowled by Paul Collingwood who was to finish with 3–33. The rain came down and play was delayed until the following day. With the fall of Nic Pothas (47) and Dimitri Mascarenhas (12) the tail was exposed and was quickly disposed of with Hampshire finishing on 187, handing Durham a historic win. Veteran Ottis Gibson
2401-457: Was the first bowler to take 5 wickets in a match. Sussex were the first winners of the Gillette Cup, beating Worcestershire in the final at Lord's . Norman Gifford was the first "Man of the Match" for a final. In the inaugural season the matches were 65 overs per side, with a bowler bowling a maximum of 15 overs. In 1964, this was reduced to 60 overs with a bowler bowling a maximum of 13. For
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