Herefordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county

Historic counties of England

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 clubs which make up the Minor Counties

Minor counties of English cricket

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 in the English

England

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 domestic cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 structure, representing the historic county of Herefordshire

Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire" NUTS 2 region. It also forms a unitary district known as the...

 and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

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.

The club plays matches around the county at Brockhampton

Brockhampton

Brockampton is the name of several villages in England:*Brockhampton, Gloucestershire*Brockhampton, Hampshire*Brockhampton, Bringsty in Herefordshire*Brockhampton-by-Ross in Herefordshire...

, Colwall

Colwall

Colwall is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England on the border with Worcestershire, nestling into the side of the Malvern Hills. Areas of the village are known as Colwall Stone, Upper Colwall and Colwall Green along over a mile of the B4218 road...

, Eastnor

Eastnor, Herefordshire

Eastnor is a village in Herefordshire, England, east of Ledbury. Eastnor Castle is nearby, and named after the village.St John's Church was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1852.-External links:...

, Kington

Kington, Herefordshire

Kington is a market town and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,597.-Location:Kington is near the Wales-England border and, despite being on the western side of Offa's Dyke, has been English for over a thousand years. The town is in the...

, and the Luctonians club at Kingsland

Kingsland, Herefordshire

Kingsland is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire. It is located north-west of Leominster.To the west of the church are the earthwork remains of a motte-and-bailey castle.-External links:...

 near Leominster

Leominster

Leominster is a market town in Herefordshire, England, located approximately north of the city of Hereford and south of Ludlow, at...

.

The Minor Counties play three-day matches at a level below that of the first-class

First-class cricket

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 game. At present, Herefordshire competes in the Western Division of the Minor Counties Championship.

Honours

• Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (1) - 2002
• MCCA Knockout Trophy (1) - 2000

Earliest cricket

Cricket probably reached Herefordshire in the 18th century, though possibly earlier. The earliest reference to cricket in the county is dated 1823.

Origin of club

A county club was founded in 1836 but it no longer exists. The present county club was formed in 1992, with it joining the Minor Counties Championship in the same year as a replacement for Durham

Durham County Cricket Club

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 who had been elevated to the County Championship

County Championship

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 at the end of the previous season.

Club history

Herefordshire has won the Minor Counties Championship once, sharing the title with Norfolk

Norfolk County Cricket Club

Norfolk 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 Norfolk and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 in 2002. The county only joined the competition in 1992, replacing Durham, who were promoted to first-class status in the same year.

Herefordshire has won the MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

The Minor Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the Minor Counties in English cricket...

 once since its inception in 1983. It won in 2000.

Famous players

See List of Herefordshire CCC players and :Category:Herefordshire cricketers

The following Herefordshire cricketers also made an impact on the first-class

First-class cricket

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 game:

• Steve Adshead
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• Kevin Cooper
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• Martin McCague
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• Neal Radford
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• Harvey Trump
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• Chris Woakes
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• Dick Richardson
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External sources

• Herefordshire County Cricket Club website
• Minor Counties Cricket Association Official Site

Further reading

• Rowland Bowen
  Rowland Bowen
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  , Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
• E W Swanton (editor), Barclays World of Cricket, Guild, 1986

• Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
  
   – various editions
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack – various editions
• Ken Hook and Frank Bennett, Cricket in Herefordshire in the 20th Century, Logaton Press, 2007