Kimberley Institute Cricket Club is an English

England

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 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...

 club based in Kimberley

Kimberley, Nottinghamshire

Kimberley is a town in Nottinghamshire, England, lying 6 miles northwest of Nottingham along the A610. The town grew as a centre for coal mining, brewing and hosiery manufacturing...

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

. The club compete in the Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League

Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League

The Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Nottinghamshire, England, and is a designated ECB Premier League.It has two feeder leagues serving the North and South of the county:...

, which is an accredited ECB

England and Wales Cricket Board

The England and Wales Cricket Board is the governing body of cricket in England and Wales. It was created on 1 January 1997 combining the roles of the Test and County Cricket Board, the National Cricket Association and the Cricket Council...

 Premier League

ECB Premier Leagues

In 1997 the ECB published "Raising the Standard", the ECB Management Board Blueprint for the Future Playing Structure of cricket. This introduced the concept of ECB Premier Leagues, designed to raise the playing standard of the top tier of club cricket and to bridge the gap between recreational...

, winning the league title in 2000.

Like most Premier League clubs, Kimberley employ an overseas professional. During 2008, this was Josh Mangan who plays for Western Australia

Western Warriors

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, and for 2009 the club has employed Mark Footitt

Mark Footitt

Mark Harold Alan Footitt is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a left arm fast bowler who is currently contracted to Derbyshire.-Biography:...

. Samit Patel

Samit Patel

Samit Rohit Patel is an English cricketer of Indian descent. He plays first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He made his One Day International debut for England in August 2008, and three years later played his first Twenty20 International in 2011.-Early and personal...

 also played for Kimberley during the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

County players

Kimberley has enjoyed the services of many top professionals, including:

• Will Jefferson
  Will Jefferson
  William Ingleby Jefferson is a professional cricketer who currently plays for Leicestershire and who played for Essex County Cricket Club until 2006, and for Nottinghamshire until 2009...
  
   (Essex
  Essex County Cricket Club
  Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...
  
   and Notts
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
  
  )
• Samit Patel
  Samit Patel
  Samit Rohit Patel is an English cricketer of Indian descent. He plays first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He made his One Day International debut for England in August 2008, and three years later played his first Twenty20 International in 2011.-Early and personal...
  
   (Notts
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
  
   and England)
• Paul Pollard
  Paul Pollard
  Paul Raymond Pollard is a former English cricketer, an opening batsman who played over 300 games in first-class and List A cricket for Nottinghamshire before a shorter stay with Worcestershire. After retiring from top-line county cricket in 2002, he had one season with Lincolnshire and appeared...
  
   (Notts
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
  
   and Worcs
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...
  
  )
• Mark Footitt
  Mark Footitt
  Mark Harold Alan Footitt is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a left arm fast bowler who is currently contracted to Derbyshire.-Biography:...
  
   (Notts
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
  
   and Northants
  Northamptonshire County Cricket Club
  Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northants Steelbacks. The traditional club colour is Maroon. During the...
  
  )
• Andre Adams
  Andre Adams
  Andre Ryan Adams is a New Zealand cricketer of Caribbean descent who has played one Test and 42 One Day International, taking 53 wickets at a bowling average of 31. He has also scored over 400 ODI runs with a batting strike rate above 100...
  
   (Notts
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
  Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
  
   and Essex
  Essex County Cricket Club
  Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...
  
  [New Zealand])

External links

Kimberly Institute Cricket Club - official site