40-416: John Epton Searby (1 November 1900 – 12 October 1956) was an English cricketer . Born at Croft , Lincolnshire , Searby was a right-handed batsman . Searby made his debut in minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire against Staffordshire in the 1924 Minor Counties Championship . He played minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire from 1924 to 1935, making fifty appearances. In 1927 he appeared in
80-523: A Test match since 2010 are Sir Paul Getty's Ground ( Wormsley Park ), St Lawrence Ground ( Canterbury ), County Ground, Taunton , Bristol County Ground , Sophia Gardens ( Cardiff ), the Rose Bowl ( Southampton ) and Riverside Ground ( Chester-le-Street ). The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the governing body of cricket in England and Wales . It was created on 1 January 1997 combining
120-465: A maximum of 5 points), and bowling points are awarded as 1 point for every 2 wickets taken. As thus, the maximum number of points that can be gained from a game is 20. Spectators at first XI matches are often required to pay for entry and a programme. The League management has, from 2008, capped the maximum charge at £3, with concessions at £1.50. Second XI matches are capped at a maximum of 25p for adults and 10p for children. All gate receipts are kept by
160-719: A points penalty), and the fielding side must have four fieldsmen plus the wicketkeeper and bowler within a 30-yard fielding circle at the moment of delivery (failure to do so results in a no-ball being called). Points are awarded as follows: 10 points for a win, 5 points to each side for a tie (scores level), 0 points for a loss, 5 points to each side for abandonment (no play), and 5 points to each side for an abandonment (with play, no win achieved). For all results, bar an abandonment with no play, teams can gain an added maximum of five bonus batting points and five bonus bowling points. Batting points are awarded as 1 point for scoring 125 runs, with an extra 1 point for every further 25 runs (to
200-692: A regional basis, with the top level being the ECB Premier Leagues . In men's cricket, there are eighteen professional county clubs , seventeen of them in England and one in Wales . All eighteen counties are named after, and were originally representative of, historic counties . These clubs are heavily dependent on subsidies from the England and Wales Cricket Board , which makes its money from television and endorsement contracts and attendances at international matches. The English cricket season traditionally starts at
240-465: A side every Sunday through the season, and towns putting out 2, 3, 4 and occasionally 5 sides for Saturday league matches, and 1 or 2 sides on a Sunday. According to the mid year 2020-21 Active Sport England survey an estimated 181,500 people play cricket at least twice a month, a 0.4% fall compared to the previous year. Around 65% population of England follow Cricket. Bradford Cricket League The Bradford Premier League (currently known as
280-512: A single first-class match, having been selected for an East of England cricket team against the touring New Zealanders at Wisbech Cricket Club Ground . In a match which the New Zealanders won by eight wickets, Searby opened the batting and was dismissed in the East's first-innings by Tom Lowry for 10 runs, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 7 runs by Herb McGirr . He died at
320-572: Is the Priestley Cup , which has been running since 1904, and the second team competition is the Priestley Shield, which has been running since 1913. Both the Cup and Shield are named for Sir William Priestley , who donated the presentation trophies for which the competitions are played. The only club ever to have won the Cup three times in a row is East Bierley, who won in 1998, 1999 and 2000. However,
360-693: The 1979 , 1987 and 1992 tournaments. In addition, England have won the ICC Men's T20 World Cup twice in 2010 and 2022 . England enjoys a hotly contested and storied rivalry with Australia , against whom they compete for The Ashes in a contest that dates back to the nineteenth century. In 2005 the ECB concluded a commercial arrangement with BSkyB which gave Sky the exclusive television rights for live Test cricket in England for four years (the 2006 to 2009 seasons). This deal, which took live Test cricket for home England matches away from terrestrial television for
400-703: The Bradford Cricket League , the Lancashire League and the Central Lancashire League . In women's cricket, 36 teams, mainly representing counties, currently compete in the Women's Twenty20 Cup . The Women's County Championship , a one-day competition, was also competed for by counties until it ended in 2019. In 2016 the Women's Cricket Super League was established, a Twenty20 competition with six franchise teams. The Women's Cricket Super League
440-499: The England men's team and England women's team . At a domestic level, teams are organised by county , competing in tournaments such as the County Championship , Metro Bank One-Day Cup , T20 Blast and the Women's Twenty20 Cup . Recent developments include the introduction of a regional structure for women's cricket and the establishment of The Hundred for both men's and women's cricket. Recreational matches are organised on
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#1732858923061480-530: The Gordon Rigg Bradford Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is a semi-professional cricket competition centred in Bradford , West Yorkshire . It has been described as "arguably England's strongest semi-professional competition." The league is structured into four divisions. Many teams are from Bradford, with others from neighbouring towns and cities across West Yorkshire . The league
520-474: The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) plays against one of the first-class counties, the game is granted first-class status. Oxford and Cambridge universities played their first match against each other in 1827. After the advent of first class cricket, matches between Oxford and Cambridge, and between either of those two universities and another first class side, were considered first class matches, with
560-521: The Vitality T20 Blast . The National Counties Cricket Championship is a season-long competition in England for county clubs that do not have first-class status. There are nineteen teams representing historic English counties along with a Welsh minor counties team. Below the county game, there are a raft of club competitions organised on a regional basis. ECB Premier Leagues being the highest level. There are also non-ECB-affiliated leagues such as
600-699: The 2020 season but postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the Hundred is a 100 ball cricket competition which consists of eight city-based franchise teams, each of which field both a men's and women's team, in a league format. The ECB runs a national club knock-out competition, the ECB National Club Cricket Championship , and has in place a regional Premier League pyramid system for recreational club cricket in England and Wales. The cricket grounds of England and Wales are smaller than
640-540: The British winter the England team tours abroad. The highest profile rival of the England cricket team is the Australian team , with which it competes for The Ashes , one of the most famous trophies in British sport. In women's cricket, England played in the first Women's Test series against Australia in 1934–35 . They won the first Women's Cricket World Cup in 1973 , and again in 1993 , 2009 and 2017 . They played in
680-701: The Durham centre led to it being adopted as a national model by the ECB in October 2000, with the establishment of six UCCE sides (two – Durham and Loughborough – based around a single university; the others bringing together players from multiple institutions) playing from 2001 in a two-day match competition with a final at Lord's. From 2001 the Oxford and Cambridge matches against the counties were no longer considered first class games, but each UCCE played three early-season matches against county sides, which acted as pre-season warm-ups for
720-631: The Oxford-Cambridge match have not, as of 2022, resumed after COVID. The 2023 and 2024 County v UCCE Matches continued to include Exeter, but Cambridge UCCE did not participate and have not played any matches as Cambridge UCCE (either against counties or in BUCS competitions) since 2022. From the 2022 season, the Oxford UCCE men's team was replaced in BUCS by the single-institution Oxford Brookes UCCE. The university teams that have played first-class cricket,
760-505: The beginning of April and runs through to the second half of September although in recent years counties have played pre season friendly matches at the very end of March. Each summer the county clubs compete in the first class County Championship , which consists of two divisions and in which matches are played over four days. The same teams also play one day cricket in the Royal London One-Day Cup , and Twenty20 cricket in
800-451: The counties, and for Oxford, Cambridge and Durham UCCEs these were considered first class. Matches between counties and Loughborough UCCE were considered first class from 2003. The MCC took over funding of the scheme from 2005, and from 2010 the UCCEs were rebranded as MCC University (MCCU) teams. A further re-arrangement in 2012 granted first-class status to all six MCCUs, but only for two of
840-571: The cricket team is usually formed from the name of the county followed by the words County Cricket Club, which are often abbreviated as CCC. The following games are considered derbies:- The opening first-class game of an English county cricket season has traditionally been played at Lord's between the MCC and the Champion County (the club that won the County Championship the previous year). When
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#1732858923061880-496: The dates when they held that status, the universities they represented and the number of first class matches played are: Teams representing a single university: Date of earliest first class match listed on the Cricket Archive; formal first class status from 1895. Includes matches prior to 1895 regarded as first class by the Cricket Archive; see First-class cricket § Retrospective classification of matches played before
920-704: The definitions . Teams representing multiple universities: Date of earliest first class match listed on the Cricket Archive; formal first class status from 1895. Includes two matches prior to 1895 regarded as first class by the Cricket Archive; see First-class cricket § Retrospective classification of matches played before the definitions . The Oxford and Cambridge Universities team played 18 first class matches against touring sides from 1839 to 1992, including two before official first class status started in 1895. The Combined Universities ( British Universities from 1995) team, formed originally from Oxford and Cambridge but including other universities from 1987, played in
960-518: The first ever Twenty20 International for either gender, against New Zealand at Hove , and they won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2009 . England has hosted five ICC Men's Cricket World Cups to date, in 1975 , 1979 , 1983 , 1999 and 2019 . In addition to these tournaments, England has also hosted the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in 2009 and the ICC Men's Champions Trophy in 2004 and 2013 . England have won one ICC Cricket World Cup , in 2019 . They previously finished as runners up in
1000-586: The first time generated substantial future revenues for English cricket, but was criticised by many England cricket supporters and others. The Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year is an annual award voted by the Cricket Writers' Club for the best young cricket player in England and Wales, and has been awarded since 1950. Cricket is also one of the most popular participation sports in England after football, rugby and tennis with most villages running
1040-588: The following four titles. In 2016, The Bradford Cricket League merged with the Central Yorkshire League to form the Bradford Premier League. Until then, the League had operated as two divisions, but this format was expanded to four divisions to accommodate the extra teams. The League runs two cup competitions for the first and second teams of every club within the League. The first team competition
1080-870: The home club. Source: Some of the more notable members include Leonard Hutton , who was a youngster at Pudsey St Lawrence and Jack Hobbs who played at Idle between 1915 and 1918. Notable overseas players include West Indian fast bowler Learie Constantine , Indian Test player VVS Laxman and Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf . The following Bradford League players have played international cricket: Baildon Bankfoot Bowling Old Lane Bradford & Bingley Brighouse Cleckheaton East Bierley Esholt Farsley Gomersal Great Horton Hanging Heaton Hartshead Moor Idle Keighley Lightcliffe Manningham Mills Morley Pudsey Congs Pudsey St Lawrence Queensbury Saltaire Spen Victoria Undercliffe Windhill Yeadon In April 1999, Kathryn Leng became
1120-691: The largest in some other countries, especially India and Australia , but the best of them have been modernised to a high standard, and two new international grounds have been built in recent years. The largest English cricket ground, Lord's in London, is internationally regarded as the "home of cricket". Test matches have been played at 24 grounds across the country. Five of these grounds have hosted both men's and women's Tests in their history: The Oval ( South London ), Old Trafford ( Manchester ), Trent Bridge ( Nottingham ), Headingley ( Leeds ) and Edgbaston ( Birmingham ). The other grounds to have hosted
1160-650: The leading Yorkshire club in the North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League . Hanging Heaton won the Yorkshire Championship in 2017, the only team from the Bradford League to do so thus far. The Bradford Cricket League was formed in 1903 with twelve clubs but only two (Undercliffe and Bankfoot) of the inaugural twelve are current members. The first club to win the Bradford Cricket League
1200-570: The limited overs Benson & Hedges Cup from 1975 to 1998 and played 13 first class matches against touring sides from 1993 to 2006. The MCC Universities team (formed from the six MCCUs) played various matches from 2007 to 2017, including entering the Second XI Championship from 2009 to 2017. The eight women's teams represent "regional hubs" and are partnered with the counties in their region. Each team has at least six professionally contracted players. Originally scheduled to start in
1240-400: The most successful club in the competition is Undercliffe, who have won it fourteen times. The League competition is made up of fixtures of fifty overs per side, with each team playing the others in their division both home and away. The strength of the League and its players is in part assisted by the League management having an open policy on the payment of players and no particular limit on
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1280-464: The number of professional players in each game. However, teams are limited to one overseas player. In 2008 some first division sides have fielded as many as six players with professional ( first-class ) credentials. There are certain playing restrictions that apply to all League fixtures. Bowlers are limited to bowling a maximum of fifteen overs per innings, the fielding side's innings must be bowled within 3 hours 10 minutes (failure to do so results in
1320-940: The roles of the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB), the National Cricket Association (NCA) and the Cricket Council. They are full members of the International Cricket Council . In men's cricket, England is a founding Test cricket , One Day International and Twenty20 nation. England played in the first ever Test match in 1877 (against Australia in Melbourne ) and the first ever One Day International in 1971 (also against Australia in Melbourne). Each summer foreign national teams visit England to play Tests, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals. In
1360-407: The status applied retroactively to earlier matches. First class counties started playing matches at other universities in the 1980s, the first being Nottinghamshire vs Durham University at The Racecourse in 1981, but these were not granted first class status. The first University Centre of Cricketing Excellence (UCCE) was established at Durham University by Graeme Fowler in 1996. The success of
1400-472: The three matches against county sides each season. The MCC ceased funding the programme in 2020, with the organisation transferring back to the ECB. The matches between the MCCUs and counties, and the annual University Match between Oxford and Cambridge, were no longer considered first class matches after 2020. No MCCU matches were played in 2020 due to COVID, although the last first class Oxford-Cambridge match
1440-450: The village of his birth on 12 October 1956. His brother also played minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire. English cricket Cricket is one of the most popular sports in England , and has been played since the 16th century. Marylebone Cricket Club , based at Lord's , developed the modern rules of play and conduct. The sport is administered by the England and Wales Cricket Board and represented at an international level by
1480-420: Was Shelf, in 1903, claiming their only League title. In total, the League has had twenty-six different winners of its top division. The most successful clubs are Bradford CC, Pudsey St Lawrence CC, and Woodlands CC, with ten titles each. The turn of the century saw the domination of Pudsey Congs and Woodlands within the top division. Pudsey Congs won five consecutive titles between 2000 and 2004, and Woodlands won
1520-604: Was played that September. As of 2022, pre-season matches with first class counties are played under the name of "English University Matches" (according to the ECB website, although Wisden uses the term ECB University Matches), and Exeter has been added to the universities participating. Both the ECB and Wisden list the university teams participating in these pre-season matches as MCCUs, but they compete in British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) limited-over matches as UCCEs. Inter-university matches outside of BUCS and
1560-696: Was renamed the Bradford Premier League in 2016, upon the merger of the Bradford Cricket League and the Central Yorkshire Cricket League , and since 2016 it has been a designated ECB Premier League . Since 2016, the winners qualify to take part in the Yorkshire Championship , together with the winners of the Yorkshire Premier League North and the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League , and
1600-583: Was replaced in 2020 with a new regional domestic structure for women's cricket. This included eight teams each representing a region of England and Wales, and competing in the 50-over Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy from 2020 and the Twenty20 Charlotte Edwards Cup from 2021. The eighteen first-class counties are the top level men's cricket teams. They are named after historic English counties and include one Welsh county , Glamorgan . The English first-class counties are: The full name of
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