Lincolnshire County Cricket Club
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Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy.
The club is based at Lincoln and plays matches around the county at Lincoln, Bourne, Grantham, Sleaford and Cleethorpes.
The Minor Counties play three-day matches at a level below that of the first-class game. At present, Lincolnshire competes in the Eastern Division of the Minor Counties Championship.
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[edit] Honours
- Minor Counties Championship (2) - 1966, 2003; shared (1) - 2001
- MCCA Knockout Trophy (0) -
[edit] Earliest cricket
Cricket probably reached Lincolnshire in the 18th century. The earliest reference to cricket in the county is dated 1792.
[edit] Origin of club
A is county organisation was set up in 1853. In 1896 the Mayor of Grantham Arthur Priestley played for Nottingham CCC as an amateur and captained an English side in the West Indies which left Southampton on December 30th and played its first game in Barbados. England greats A.E.Stoddart,SMJ Wood and RCN Palairet were on the side.See:Peter Wynn-Thomas, /the Complete History of England Cricket Tours at Home and Abroad (Guild:London 1989) p45. The Grantham mayor also toured the United States with Prince Ranjitsinjhi's team in 1899, the same year he played cricket on WG Grace's Gentleman's side at Lord's. When the Gentlemen of Philadelphia played a Lincolnshire CCC XVI in Grantham on their 1903 tour of England, the greatest American player of all time, Bart King scored 176 runs for the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, the highest score by a GOP player in Britain. Arthur Priestly was the honorary captain of the American side. The American team toured Knipton before catching the train for Lord's. See:David Sentance, Cricket in America 1710-2000 (MacFarland Publishing:N.Carolina 2006) The present Lincolnshire CCC was founded on 28 September 1906. It competed in the Minor Counties Champioship from 1907 to 1914 and then again from 1924.
[edit] Club history
Lincolnshire has won the Minor Counties Championship twice, and also once shared the title. It won the title outright in 1966 and 2003. It shared the accolade in 2001 with Cheshire.
[edit] Knockout Trophy
Lincolnshire has never won the MCCA Knockout Trophy since its inception in 1983.
[edit] Famous players
The following Lincolnshire cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game:
[edit] External sources
[edit] Further reading
- Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
- E W Swanton (editor), Barclays World of Cricket, Guild, 1986
- Playfair Cricket Annual – various editions
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack – various editions
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