22-636: The National One Day Cup was the national domestic List A (one-day) cricket competition in Pakistan. Due to frequent reorganisations by the Pakistan Cricket Board , at different times there have been one or more competitions involving teams representing either regional associations or departments (or a mix of the two), during the same season, resulting in multiple domestic one-day champions in those seasons. The first domestic one-day competitions in Pakistan were short-lived, starting with PTV Trophy which
44-530: A 'List A' game was played between Lancashire and Leicestershire in May 1963, in the preliminary round of the Gillette Cup . Each side batted for 65 overs, and bowlers were restricted to 15 overs each. This article about cricket terminology is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Leicestershire County Cricket Club First-class One-day T20 Leicestershire County Cricket Club
66-842: A single Championship win, the first team to achieve this unwanted feat in back to back seasons since Northamptonshire just before World War II . Recent years have seen an improvement in first-class results, and in 2023 they won their first trophy for 12 years, beating Hampshire at Trent Bridge to lift the One Day Cup. England Australia Bangladesh India New Zealand Pakistan South Africa West Indies Zimbabwe Most first-class runs for Leicestershire Qualification – 17,000 runs Most first-class wickets for Leicestershire Qualification – 600 wickets Most first-team winners medals for Leicestershire Best partnership for each wicket (county championship) The Leicestershire Sub Academy
88-458: Is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket , with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in an innings per team ranges from forty to sixty, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved official ODI status. Together with first-class and Twenty20 cricket, List A
110-486: Is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Leicestershire . It has also been representative of the county of Rutland . The club's limited overs team is called the Leicestershire Foxes . Founded in 1879, the club had minor county status until 1894, when it was promoted to first-class status pending its entry into
132-637: Is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). In November 2021, the ICC retrospectively applied List A status to women's cricket, aligning it with the men's game. Most Test cricketing nations have some form of domestic List A competition. The scheduled number of overs in List A cricket ranges from forty to sixty overs per side, mostly commonly fifty overs. The categorisation of cricket matches as "List A"
154-420: Is the only player to have played League Football and first-class cricket on the same day. He then returned to Chesterfield to complete a century the following morning and take three wickets to wrap up the title. To add to that season's success for Leicestershire was a second Benson & Hedges victory. A runners-up spot in the 1982 County Championship brought some respectability, but the decade's only silverware
176-646: The County Championship in 1895. Since then, Leicestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England. The club is based at Grace Road in Leicester , known as The Uptonsteel County Ground for sponsorship reasons, and has also played home games at Aylestone Road in Leicester, at Hinckley , Loughborough , Melton Mowbray, Ashby-de-la-Zouch , Coalville and most recently Kibworth inside
198-466: The County Championship was restructured into a 14-team competition with the introduction of Essex, Leicestershire and Warwickshire CCC . Leicestershire's first 70 years were largely spent in lower table mediocrity, with few notable exceptions. In 1953, the motivation of secretary-captain Charles Palmer lifted the side fleetingly to third place, but most of the rest of the 1950s was spent propping up
220-565: The T20 Cup three times in eight years between 2004-11, and the One Day Cup in 2023. + 1 Bain Hogg Trophy – second XI one-day competition – 1996 Cricket may not have reached Leicestershire until well into the 18th century. A notice in the Leicester Journal dated 17 August 1776 is the earliest known mention of cricket in the county. Soon afterwards, a Leicestershire and Rutland Cricket Club
242-474: The best out of a group of players who were either discarded from other counties or brought through the Leicestershire ranks. This team did not have many stars, but Aftab Habib , Darren Maddy , Vince Wells , Jimmy Ormond , Alan Mullally and Chris Lewis all had chances for England . West Indian all-rounder Phil Simmons was also named as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the year in 1997 while playing for
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#1732859300273264-403: The club. The advent of Twenty20 cricket saw Leicestershire find a new source of success, winning the domestic T20 competition in 2004, 2006 and 2011. However, in the era of two-division County Championship cricket they have found success more difficult to come by, having not played in the top division since 2003 and been regular " wooden spoon " contenders. In 2013 and 2014 they finished without
286-539: The first of five trophies in five years and included Leicestershire's first ever County Championship title in 1975. A couple of runners up spots were also thrown in. The game when Leicestershire won their first ever County Championship, on 15 September 1975, marked something of a personal triumph for Chris Balderstone. Batting on 51 not out against Derbyshire at Chesterfield, after close of play he changed into his football kit to play for Doncaster Rovers in an evening match 30 miles away (a 1–1 draw with Brentford ). Thus he
308-714: The generation of career records and statistics for comparable one-day matches. Only the more important one-day competitions in each country, plus matches against a touring Test team, are included. The categorisation was the work of Philip Bailey. • Australia A cricket team • Afghanistan A cricket team • Bangladesh A cricket team • England A cricket team • India A cricket team • Ireland A cricket team • New Zealand A cricket team • Pakistan A cricket team • South Africa A cricket team • Sri Lanka A cricket team • West Indies A cricket team • Zimbabwe A cricket team Matches were divided into three categories: The first match retrospectively designated as
330-451: The spin of John Savage . Another change was in the captaincy: Tony Lock , the former England and Surrey spinner who had galvanised Western Australia . Ray Illingworth , again from Yorkshire, instilled self-belief to the extent that the county took its first ever trophy in 1972, the Benson & Hedges Cup with Chris Balderstone man of the match. This was start of the first golden era as
352-510: The table, or thereabouts. Change came in the late 1950s with the recruitment of the charismatic Willie Watson at the end of a distinguished career with England and Yorkshire . Watson's run gathering sparked the home-grown Maurice Hallam into becoming one of England's best opening batsmen . In bowling, Leicestershire had an erratically successful group of seamers in Terry Spencer , Brian Boshier , John Cotton and Jack van Geloven , plus
374-636: The traditional county boundaries of Leicestershire, and at Oakham , in Rutland. In limited overs cricket, the kit colours are red shirt with green trousers in the One Day Cup and green shirt and green trousers in the T20 Blast. The shirt sponsors in the 2024 season were UptonSteel. Leicestershire are in the second division of the County Championship and in the north group of the T20 Blast. Their best performances in recent years have come in one day cricket, winning
396-684: Was held in 1971-72, the Servis Cup which was held in 1974–75 and 1975–76, United Bank Limited (UBL) Trophy and the Habib Bank Gold Cup were held. The first long-standing competition was the Wills Cup , introduced in 1980–81, sponsored by the Pakistan Tobacco Company . Except for 1984–85, it was played every season until 1998–99 when it was renamed the Tissot Cup . In 2000–01, the competition
418-440: Was in the 1985 Benson & Hedges Cup with Balderstone still on board making him the most successful trophy winner in the club's history with six. Leicestershire won the county championship in 1996, and again in 1998. This was an amazing achievement considering the resources of the club compared to other county teams. This Leicestershire side, led by Jack Birkenshaw and James Whitaker , used team spirit and togetherness to get
440-399: Was not officially endorsed by the International Cricket Council until 2006, when the ICC announced it, along with its member associations, would be determining this classification in a manner similar to that done for first-class matches. The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians created this category for the purpose of providing an equivalent to first-class cricket, to allow
462-558: Was split as the One Day National Tournament , with one tournament for regional associations and one for departments. Since then, the competition has fluctuated between single and separate competitions and has had many different names, reflecting various sponsorship agreements. National T20 Cup List A cricket First-class cricket One Day International Limited overs (domestic) Twenty20 International Twenty20 (domestic) Other forms List A cricket
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#1732859300273484-434: Was taking part in important matches, mainly against Nottingham Cricket Club and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). This club was prominent from 1781 until the beginning of the 19th century. Little more is heard of Leicestershire cricket until the formation of the present club on 25 March 1879. Essex CCC versus Leicestershire CCC at Leyton on 14, 15 & 16 May 1894 was the first first-class match for both clubs. In 1895,
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