London County Cricket Club

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This article is about the turn-of-the-20th-century cricket club. For the 18th-century London club, see London Cricket Club. For the war-time representative team, see London Counties cricket team.

WG Grace in the colours of London County, painted by Albert Chevallier Tayler.

London County Cricket Club was a short-lived cricket club founded by the

Gloucestershire CCC during the 1899 season. The club played first-class matches between 1900 and 1904.[2][3]

The club's home ground was

JWHT Douglas, Albert Trott and Ranjitsinhji. The increase in the importance of the County Championship, Grace's own inevitable decline in form (given that he was over fifty years old) and the lack of a competitive element in the matches led to a decline in attendances and consequently meant the team lost money.[4]
The final first-class matches were played in 1904 and the enterprise folded in 1908.

In 2004 the club was relaunched by former

Leicestershire wicketkeeper-batsman Neil Burns
as a mentoring organisation for the development and support of cricketers.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ History of the Crystal Palace Company Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Alan Gibson: The Cricket Captains of England (1989), p57.
  3. ^ Christopher Martin-Jenkins: The Wisden Book of County Cricket (1981), p441.
  4. ^ Cricket 1908

References

Further reading

  • Brian Pearce, Cricket at the Crystal Palace: W.G. Grace and the London County Cricket Club, Crystal Palace Foundation, 2004,
    ISBN 978-1-897754-09-2

External links
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