Shropshire County Cricket Club
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Shropshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty
The team is a member of the
The club plays at Shrewsbury and around the county at Bridgnorth, Oswestry, Shifnal, Wellington, and Whitchurch.
Honours
- Minor Counties Championship (1) - 1973; shared (0) -
- MCCA Knockout Trophy (1) - 2010
Origins
Cricket probably reached Shropshire in the 18th century. The first reference to cricket in the county was in August 1794, when a match was played on Kingsland then on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, by a 'Shrewsbury Cricket Society'.[2]
A county organisation existed in either 1819 or 1829, according to
History
The present county club is quite new, having been formed on 28 June 1956 and taking part in the Minor Counties Championship from 1957.[2]
Shropshire has won the Minor Counties Championship once, in 1973.[4] This was the first time the county had even finished in the top 10 of the Minor Counties competition.
Shropshire won the
Notable players
The following Shropshire cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game:
- Doug Slade (former Worcestershire slow left-arm bowler)
- Somachandra de Silva
- Bilal Shafayat (played for Nottinghamshire and Hampshire)
- Andy Lloyd who played one test match for England
- Ian Payne
Also professional footballer Steve Ogrizovic played cricket for Shropshire.
Grounds
References
- ^ "List A events played by Shropshire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ^ ISBN 1-902171-17-9.Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. From Introduction.
- ^ Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. p. 4.
- ^ Fissler, Neil (7 March 2017). "Where are they now? Shropshire – 1973 Minor Counties champions". The Cricket Paper. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
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