Berkshire County Cricket Club
Personnel
CaptainDaniel Lincoln
CoachTom Lambert
Team information
Founded1895
Home groundNo fixed address
History
NCCC wins9
MCCAT wins7
FP Trophy wins0
Official websitehttp://www.berkshirecountycricketclub.org

Berkshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty National county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Berkshire.

The team is currently a member of the National Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the NCCA Knockout Trophy. Berkshire played List A matches occasionally until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se.[1]

History

According to Rowland Bowen in his Growth and Development of Cricket, the first reference to cricket being played in the county of Berkshire was in 1751. Cricket certainly reached Berkshire much earlier than that for it originated on the Weald in Saxon or Norman times and was definitely being played in Berkshire's neighbouring county of Surrey in 1550.

The first definite mention of cricket in Berkshire relates to the famous all rounder Thomas Waymark who resided at Bray Wick, near Maidenhead in the 1740s, though there are earlier mentions of the game at Eton College. The first definite mention of cricket in Berkshire relates to a team called "Buckinghamshire, Berkshire & Hertfordshire" in September 1740, which played two matches against London Cricket Club at Uxbridge and the Artillery Ground. London won the first "with great difficulty" but no post-match report was found of the second. See H. T. Waghorn: Cricket Scores 1730–73.

By the late 18th century, Berkshire had achieved first-class status. Its strength was in the prominent Old Field Club of Bray, near Maidenhead, which had a team representative of Berkshire as a county and was capable of taking on other leading teams of the time. The first time Berkshire is recorded as a county team is in a match against Surrey in June 1769 and the county was top-class from then until August 1795 when, after losing to MCC at Lord's, it abruptly ceased to appear in first-class matches.

Club origins

The Oldfield Club was effectively a Berkshire county team but it was not formally constituted as a county club. Rowland Bowen's researches discovered evidence of a county organisation by 1841, but it may only have been a loose association of local clubs, as was sometimes the case elsewhere.

Berkshire CCC was founded on 17 March 1895, the same year that the Minor Counties Championship began. It did not compete in the first year of the competition but joined for 1896.

Current squad

  • * denotes the team captain
  • ‡ denotes players who have played first-class cricket.
Name Nat Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batsmen
Waqas Hussain England11 May 1992Right-handedRight-arm medium
Brandon Gilmour England11 April 1996Left-handedRight-arm medium
Andy Rishton‡ England14 February 1995Right-handedRight-arm medium
Oliver Birts England21 August 1997Right-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Dan Lincoln England26 May 1995Right-handedRight-arm medium
Adam Dewes England27 October 1995Right-handedRight-arm medium
Euan Woods England30 September 1998Left-handedRight-arm off break
Archie Carter England15 October 2000Right-handed—
All-rounders
Richard Morris* ‡ England25 September 1987Right-handedRight-arm medium
James Morris‡ England17 January 1985Right-handedLeg break
Adam Dewes England26 November 1996Right-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Jarryd Wallace EnglandUnknownRight-handedRight-arm medium-fast
Wicket-keepers
Joe Thomas England10 February 1998Right-handed—
Stewart Davison‡ England6 April 1991Right-handed—
Joe Cracknell England16 March 2000Right-handed—
Jack Davies England30 March 2000Left-handed—England Under-19 player
Bowlers
Chris Peploe ‡ England26 April 1981Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Callum Gregory England14 February 1997Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
Akbar Raja England6 May 1991Right-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Alexander Russell ‡ England28 May 1998Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
Toby Greatwood EnglandUnknownRight-handedRight-arm fast-medium
Tom Nugent ‡ England11 July 1994Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
Ethan Bamber ‡ England17 December 1998Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
  • Squad information correct as of 14 February 2019 [2]

Notable players

International

This list includes those Berkshire players who have played in Test cricket since 1877, One Day International cricket since 1971, or a Twenty20 International since 2004.

England England

Netherlands Netherlands

South Africa South Africa

West Indies Cricket West Indies

Other

Honours

  • National Counties Championship (9) - 1924, 1928, 1953, 2008, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
  • NCCA Knockout Trophy (8) – 2004, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • NCCA T20 Champions (1) - 2018
  • NCCA Western Division Champions (6) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022

Grounds

See also

References

  1. ↑ "List A events played by Berkshire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Berkshire's First Team". Berkshire County Cricket Club. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

Further reading

  • Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
  • G. B. Buckley, Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, Cotterell, 1935
  • E. W. Swanton (editor), Barclays World of Cricket, Guild, 1986
  • H. T. Waghorn, The Dawn of Cricket, Electric Press, 1906
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