Cumberland County Cricket Club

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Cumberland County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cumberland and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy.

The club is based at the Edenside Ground, Carlisle and also plays matches around Cumbria at various places including Workington, Penrith, Kendal and Barrow-in-Furness. The last two places, Kendal and Barrow, are actually outside the traditional boundaries of Cumberland.

The Minor Counties play three-day matches at a level below that of the first-class game. At present, Cumberland competes in the Eastern Division of the Minor Counties Championship.

1 Honours
2 Earliest cricket
3 Origin of club
4 Club history
5 Famous players
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Honours

Minor Counties Championship (2) - 1986, 1999; shared (0) -
MCCA Knockout Trophy (1) - 1989

[edit] Earliest cricket

Cricket probably reached Cumberland during the 18th century. The earliest reference to cricket in the county is in 1828.

It is known that a county organisation was established on 2 January 1884.

[edit] Origin of club

The present club was founded fairly recently, on 10 April 1948 as the "Cumberland and Westmorland CCC". The "Westmorland" was dropped when the side was admitted to the Minor Counties Championship for the 1955 season.