Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The ECB published "Raising the Standard" in 1997, the ECB Management Board Blueprint for the Future Playing Structure of cricket. This introduced the concept of ECB Premier Leagues, designed to raise the playing standard of the top tier of club cricket and to bridge the gap between recreational cricket and the First Class game.
Gloucestershire's first innings total was their highest ever in first-class cricket. [136] The 316-run partnership between Cameron Bancroft and Ben Charlesworth, who scored his maiden century as a professional, was a record for the first wicket against Leicestershire by any side in first-class cricket. [137]
The Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Nottinghamshire, England, and since it was formed in 1999 it has been a designated ECB Premier League. [1] It has two feeder leagues serving the North and South of the county: Bassetlaw and District Cricket League - North
From 1974 to 1981 there was a limit of 200 overs for the first two innings; the team batting first were restricted to 100 overs and any unused overs were added to those allowed to the team batting second. [18] Of the current 18 sides in County Cricket the remaining four joined at the following dates: Worcestershire in 1899 (did not play in 1919)
The 2023 County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 123rd cricket County Championship season in England and Wales. [1] As in 2022, Division One had ten teams and Division Two had eight teams. [2] The season started on 6 April and finished on 29 September 2023.
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 the first ever Twenty20 International for either gender, against New Zealand at Hove, and they won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2009. [41] [42]
In 2013, the league expanded into two divisions (Premier and Division 1) following a restructure of the cricketing leagues in the North East of England. Subsequently, the Durham & Northeast Cricket League [ 2 ] and Northumberland and Tyneside Cricket League [ 3 ] began to feed into the NEPL in the revised pyramid structure for the purposes of ...
This is a list of current first-class cricket teams, organised first by country and then alphabetically. A first class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams.