Uxbridge Cricket Club is a 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 Uxbridge

Uxbridge

Uxbridge is a large town located in north west London, England and is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon. It forms part of the ceremonial county of Greater London. It is located west-northwest of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres...

, Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...

. Uxbridge CC is a member of the Middlesex County Cricket League

Middlesex County Cricket League

The Middlesex County Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Middlesex, England, and since 1999 has been a designated ECB Premier League...

 which is a designated ECB Premier League.

History

There are records of Cricket being played in the Uxbridge area as far back as 1735. The official founding date of Uxbridge Cricket Club is 1789.

The first games were played on the Uxbridge Moor

New Ground, Uxbridge Moor

The New Ground, Uxbridge Moor near Uxbridge, Middlesex was used as a cricket venue for 4 first-class matches between 1789 and 1790.It was mainly used for minor matches by the local Uxbridge club.-External links:* * -Bibliography:...

 area of the town, later moving to Uxbridge Common. In 1858 the club moved again, to a field behind the Eastern end of Uxbridge High Street, and remained there until 1970 when the redevelopment of the town centre obliged the club to seek a new home. The club moved to the present site, opposite Uxbridge Common.

For a number of years Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex 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 Middlesex. It was announced in February 2009 that Middlesex changed their limited overs name from the Middlesex Crusaders, to the...

 played County Championship

County Championship

The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...

 and List-A matches at the Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground

Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground

Uxbridge Cricket Ground opened in 1971. Uxbridge Cricket Club moved here after a redevelopment of Uxbridge High Street saw the club move from their Cricketfield Road ground...

. In recent years the County team has moved out of Uxbridge due to the pitch being deemed too batsmen friendly. However, the County has now returned to Uxbridge to play Twenty20

Twenty20

Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in England for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board , in 2003. A Twenty20 game involves two teams, each has a single innings, batting for a maximum of 20 overs. Twenty20 cricket is also known as T20 cricket...

 matches from 2003 and has played the odd County game there during 2010.

The high points of the club have been the winning of the Thames Valley Cricket League in 1982 followed by reaching the Final of the Evening Standard Challenge Trophy in 2000. Since 1989, Uxbridge has been playing in the Middlesex County Cricket League

Middlesex County Cricket League

The Middlesex County Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Middlesex, England, and since 1999 has been a designated ECB Premier League...

, the foremost league in the county.

Other sports

The club offers a number of other sports including bowls

Bowls

Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll slightly asymmetric balls so that they stop close to a smaller "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a pitch which may be flat or convex or uneven...

, with Uxbridge Bowls Club being founded in 1908. The club has an adjoining rugby

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 club. Uxbridge RFC was formed from two clubs, namely Borderers RFC & Old Creightonians in 1947. In 1991 Uxbridge RFC merged with Uxbridge Cricket Club. The club also has squash

Squash (sport)

Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...

 and tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

sections.