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Old Leightonians Cricket Club


not until 1976, at a game between the OLs and NatWest Bank, that the idea of staging regular Old Leightonians fixtures against other teams each season (in addition to the annual fixture against the school) was first put forward, and this led to the formation of the club in 1977. The Old Leightonians Cricket Club was founded by Graham Carter and Martin Wigram on Sunday 27 February 1977 at the Jolly Farmer pub in Puttenham, Surrey, with Carter taking the jobs of Club Secretary and Statistician while Wigram assumed the role of
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Home games are played at Leighton Park School. Old Leightonians cricket dates back to 1899, when a team of former pupils from Leighton Park School took on the school's 1st XI for the first time. Since then the fixture has been contested annually, with a few exceptions, and for many years it represented the only chance for former pupils to play under the Old Leightonians banner – although a number of other matches, including some in the Netherlands, were played by Old Leightonians sides in the 1920s and 1930s. It was
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The Old Leightonians Cricket Club is a cricket club for former pupils of Leighton Park School, Reading, Berkshire. As of 2019, the club has over 195 members, as well as ten honorary members. The club does not compete in league cricket and thus most of its fixtures are friendly matches against a variety of opponents – from teams in the Reading area (including Leighton Park School's 1st XI) through to sides in the club's current touring destinations: the East Midlands, Devon, Kent and Nantes, France.
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, but a captain has been elected to lead the side in the various cup competitions in which the club has taken part every year since 1978. "BC – Brewers Cup; CWT – Cricket World Trophy; OLCT – Old Leightonians Challenge Trophy" The OLCC keeps what is thought to be one of the most comprehensive sets of statistics in club cricket, issuing an annual update of 99+ pages that details a range of records, from every score of 50 or more through to a list of counties (and countries) in
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competition ended in farcical circumstances in 2007, which gave rise to the club founding its own cup competition. Thus the Old Leightonians Challenge Trophy was inaugurated in 2008 and has since been contested by the Old Leightonians, the Leighton Park School 1st XI and the 'Parktimers' – a team comprising Leighton Park staff and guests – in a 20-over format. The Parktimers won the first two editions. Elsewhere, there were other major changes in the life of the OLCC. After 26 consecutive seasons in the West Country, the club members
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tour of France and the new location of Nantes, starting in 2019. Coinciding with the retirement from England Cricket of one Sir Alistair Cook, another cricketing colossus decided to hang up their boots in 2018. Andrew 'Mickey' Moss called time on a 41-year OLCC legacy that will always see him regarded as one of the greatest Old Leightonian Cricketers. With nearly 8,500 runs over 358 appearances, Andrew will be sorely missed from the batting lineups of future Match Managers. Early rumours suggested he was taking a up a cricket lecturing director
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the middle of the 2016 season, the Old Leightonians had welcomed nearly 190 ex-pupils back to represent the club and had lengthened their Honorary membership to 10 members in total! In 2016, after eight very enjoyable tours of Norfolk, the OLCC took their touring party back to Devon for an extended weekend of cricket and joviality. In addition to this annual tour, a two-day tour of Kent was successfully scheduled and enjoyed by all in 2018. The Kent Tour would occur every two years, alternating with a revived
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– that allowed the OLCC to reach the semi-finals without even playing a game – contributed to their decision to close the competition. (It should be noted that the OLCC had raised a full team of bona fide Old Leightonians for every fixture they had contested in the competition since joining in 1978, making the decision to wind up the competition all the more difficult for the committee's chairman, Robert Stein, himself a stalwart member and subsequently a Life Vice President of the OLCC). An unsuccessful experiment with a replacement
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chose to relocate its main tour, which by now had become a week-long trip at the end of August, to the north Norfolk coast. New fixtures and a new touring base were found and these proved to be an excellent addition to the calendar. Taking up residence for one week a year, the OLs first attended the Links Hotel, West Runton in 2008. With a great set of fixtures and local attractions, the Old Leightonians quickly settled into their new annual tour; venue highlights to include a game at
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, only to then discover after the match that the opposition's No 3 batsman, who made 171 from just 113 balls, had not even attended said institution. Taunton were duly kicked out of the tournament allowing the OLs to progress. But the most amazing of these Brewers Cup encounters came at St Edmund's, Ware, in 2002. Chasing 252 to win, another first-round cup exit for the Old Leightonians looked likely at 94–7, and a racing certainty at 163–9. But No 9 batsman Michael Thomas, who
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consecutive trophies in as many years. It took a special invitational XI led by longtime Head of Sports Mark Simmons in 2015 to finally end this run. Simmons led a Field House XI to victory in their only two games to date and a new name was engraved for the first time in the competition's history. Finally in 2016, in the competition's 9th year, Seb Powers was able to finally lead the OLCC to their maiden victory in the competition with a 2-0 series win over the Parktimers XI. By
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was found in the West Country in 1982, beginning a run of annual tours to the area that would not end until 2007. By 1986, the club's membership had risen to 75 and to mark the successful completion of ten seasons, a special dinner was held at which the guest speaker was the Test Match Special scorer Bill Frindall. Meanwhile, the club's status as a hotbed of cricketing joviality was beginning to be defined. The club's first tour to the West Country had seen the inauguration of the 'Tour
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members. Even in the Brewers Cup, the customary first-round exit was no longer a certainty as the club engaged in a series of astonishing battles. The highest scoring of these came in 2001 when the club's highest ever total – 337 all out – was unfortunately 40 short of the Old Bloxhamists' gargantuan effort, and the OLs were unlucky to be defeated twice on the now discredited run rate system, in 2000 and 2004. Then, in 2005, the OLCC was defeated by the old boys of Taunton School
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In 1978 the club entered the Brewers Company Cup, a limited-overs cup competition for former pupils of smaller independent schools, a move that added some more competitive cricket to the club's calendar. This usually came in the form of just one match each season since the OLCC did not enjoy any great success in the cup, a fact underlined in 1981 when the club suffered its heaviest ever defeat, losing to Denstone Wanderers by 253 runs. Though the annual tour to Suffolk only lasted until 1979, a replacement touring venue
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2010, Shashank Narayanasamy recorded a new OLCC best 8-36, including a hat-trick. Not to be outshined, James Barratt broke the previous club record by blasting 170* not out in 2012 at Leighton Park. There was a shake-up of the clubs roles, with James Barratt taking the reins as club secretary, Nick Hayles assuming the roles of club treasurer and availability secretary and Seb Powers becoming the new club statistician. In the OLCT competition, Pete Bulteel led his Parktimer 'Staff' XI to seven
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role for the OLCC from 2019. The following table lists OLCC members and honorary members who played at least three games for the club in recent seasons. The number in the first column refers to that player's unique club number, which is allocated in order of debut date for the club. "Note: In the event of more than one player making their first appearance in the same game, the player listed higher in the batting order takes the first available number." The OLCC does not have club captains as such
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, Derek Brewer, swung the match decisively in the old boys' favour with a devastating spell of 14–8–18–7, which remained the best figures for over 30 years. Brewer finished the match with a hat-trick as the school 1st XI were bowled out for 128, giving the OLCC a 49-run victory. Later that season the club embarked on its first tour, playing three games in Suffolk at the start of July. Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, the club steadily grew in membership and expanded its fixture list.
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. Alongside the annual West Country tour, Beer's tenure as secretary would see the club return to Suffolk and add the East Midlands to its list of touring destinations. On the field, the early and mid-1980s had provided the OLCC with a new generation of club stalwarts who ensured the club continued to thrive. Success in the Brewers Cup remained elusive, however, as the club failed to advance beyond the first round for six years in a row. Having stepped aside as club secretary, Carter became the club's President in
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Joker' – an award given to the member of the touring party who was deemed by the tour managers to have caused the most amusement to his fellow tourists – and by 1986 this prize had become a much cherished and sought after club institution. After ten years as club secretary, Graham Carter made way for Dominic Beer as the OLCC entered a new era that began with an exciting new venture: the club's first overseas tour, which came in the form of a weekend in Paris at the start of the 1987 season
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President's invitation XI. Dominic Beer was succeeded as club secretary by Phil Samuels at the start of 1997, and although his tenure began with an inauspicious return on the field that season (the club managed only one win, and that came in its first match of the year), the change reflected the shift in playing membership as a wave of school leavers from the mid-1990s – known to the senior members as 'jolly juniors' – began what would become long and fruitful careers in the OLCC. As well as contributing
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Sandringham and an evening on Cromer pier. And there were plenty more highlights to be found back at the hotel, most notably the tale of 'Dangerous' of his infamous night on tour. Much as it had done in mid- to late 1990s, the club received another injection of youth from 2008–2009 leavers. These leavers were to form the spine of the side for the next few years, and within their number were two club record breakers with both bat and ball. Whilst on Norfolk tour against Tom Johnson's XI in
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on the field, the younger generation were also brought in as office-holders as well as carrying out the duties of match and tour managers. The culture of touring soon found itself in the rudest of health, as the now annual trips to the East Midlands and the West Country were supplemented in alternate years with a long weekend in Saumur, France. Even though three tours were in the club's schedule every other year, appetite for touring remained strong and the 1999 edition of the West Country tour took with it 24
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had only been drafted into the side at the last minute, smashed a quite remarkable unbeaten 102 from 70 balls, and with No 11 Julian Shackel swatting a composed 27 not out, the OLs pulled off a one-wicket win in the penultimate over. All was not well in the Brewers Cup competition, however. The Taunton incident in 2005 merely served to heighten the issue of 'ringers' playing for some of the competing clubs and the following year proved the final straw for the cup committee as a series of withdrawals
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1988 and continued to oversee its progress. To mark his 50th birthday, a special game was held at Leighton Park in 1996 that was to see records tumble. In a day's play that began at 11:00 am and finished just a few minutes before 9:00 pm (partly due to a two-and-a-half-hour lunch break), 635 runs were scored, 167 of which were contributed by Andrew Moss in a club record innings that allowed the OLCC to record a thrilling four-wicket victory against the
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Fixture Secretary. A list of eight fixtures was drawn up for the 1977 season, beginning with the annual fixture against the Leighton Park School 1st XI. Held on 21 May, a side made up of Leighton Park alumni from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was assembled to take part in the club's inaugural match. Dominic Beer faced the first ball and Andrew Moss top-scored with 51 not out as the OLCC declared on 177–8. In reply, the school 1st XI were well set on 106–1 before the OL captain
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Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League


place of Old DOHS Sports Club and Partex Sporting Club. Partex Sporting Club and Khelaghar Samaj Kallyan Samity returned in place of Cricket Coaching School and Kala Bagan Cricket Academy. Agrani Bank Cricket Club and Shinepukur Cricket Club were promoted in place of Victoria Sporting Club and Partex Sporting Club. Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan and Uttara Sporting Club were promoted in place of Agrani Bank Cricket Club and Kala Bagan Krira Chakra. The fastest century is by Brendan Taylor, who reached 100 off 46 balls for Prime Bank against Kalabagan Cricket Academy in 2013–14.
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Towcestrians Sports Club


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Old Hararians


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Jason Duff


club cricketer with both the Altona and Footscray Cricket Clubs. He tried his hand at many sports settling into Hockey as his winter recreation and Cricket in the summer. He showed a keen interest in cricket from an early age playing in his first U12 cricket match as a 5 year old with the Williamstown CYMS cricket club. He soon showed good ability as a cricketer after moving to the Altona Cricket Club and being selected in the clubs U14 Hatch Shield team as a 10 year old. He progressed quickly through the senior ranks at
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Singhalese Sports Club


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Little Lever


sports hall, gymnasium, squash courts, all-weather pitch and extensive playing fields. There are also facilities around the village for football, rounders, bowls and cricket. Little Lever Cricket Club is a long established facility which includes a social club and bar. The cricket team play in the Bolton Cricket League. There are also a number of youth organizations, a youth club, an old age pensioners' club, and a Women's Institute branch. There are several public houses and political, sports and social clubs.
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Ruchira Palliyaguruge


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Old DOHS Sports Club


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Sepsi-78


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Old Georgian Club


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Prime Bank Cricket Club


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Ickleford


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Sport in Manchester


of Manchester Aquatic Swim Team based at the Aquatic Centre and they run academy sessions throughout Manchester. Old Trafford cricket ground, in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, was originally the home of Manchester Cricket Club, but became the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club in 1864 upon the club's formation. Built in 1856, the ground is on Talbot Road, Stretford. A test match venue since 1884, the 155-year-old ground is one of the most famous in world cricket, only The Oval in London can claim to have
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Suresh Perera (Old Cambrians cricketer)


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Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League


finishing teams are demoted to the second division (known as the Dhaka First Division League) for the next season and the top two teams in the second division are promoted. Cricket Coaching School played the first six matches but were demoted after failing to arrive at their seventh match in time to play. Old DOHS Sports Club and Partex Sporting Club were promoted in place of Cricket Coaching School and Khelaghar Samaj Kallyan Samity. Gazi Tank Cricketers changed their name to Legends of Rupganj. Cricket Coaching School and Gazi Group Cricketers were promoted in
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New Anniesland


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Old Hill Cricket Club


to the objectives of the Birmingham & District Premier Cricket League namely to promote that which is best for the development of cricket with high standards of performance, sportsmanship, playing facilities and preparing the best young players for County cricket. The club is an integral part of the local community and provides a service in a deprived area. The club offers the opportunity for all individuals in the community to participate in sport and cricket in a fully resourced child friendly and effective environment with which all club members are proud to be associated. In
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2017–18 Premier Limited Overs Tournament


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Morton Betts


(against Scotland in 1877) was as a goalkeeper. By this time, he was with the Old Harrovians Football Club. For twenty years, Betts was a board member of the Football Association. His sporting career also featured first-class cricket appearances for Middlesex County Cricket Club (one match) and Kent County Cricket Club (two matches). Switching between football and cricket duties frequently, he is also associated with Essex County Cricket Club. He played for Essex in 1884, before they became a first-class county
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Maghull


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Lytham St Annes


once again. St Annes Cricket Club are based at Vernon Road, St Annes. England and Lancashire cricketer Andrew Flintoff played for St Annes, starting as a 12-year-old in 1989. Lytham Cricket and Sports Club is based in Church Road, Lytham. It is the home of Lytham St Annes Hockey Club and also provides facilities for cricket, tennis and football. Fylde Triathlon Club was formed following the success of the annual St Annes Triathlon that is held in May at St Annes Swimming pool. In 2009 the club is
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Milnrow Cricket Club


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1788 English cricket season


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Cookridge


names suggest, these made major encroachments into woodland. The water-tower was built in 1929 to supply Cookridge village on one of the highest points in Leeds at 192m (630 feet) above sea level. Near the water-tower is Tinshill BT Tower (also known as Cookridge Tower), a prominent landmark. Cookridge has three sports clubs: Cookridge Cricket Club, Cookridge Hall Golf Club, and the Old Modernians Sports Club which has football, rugby and cricket teams. Cookridge Hospital opened in 1869 as a '
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Bullingdon Club


confined to the old Bullingdon Club, which was expensive and exclusive". This foundational sporting purpose is attested to in the Club's symbol. "The Wisden Cricketer" reports that the Bullingdon is "ostensibly one of the two original Oxford University cricket teams but it actually used cricket merely as a respectable front for the mischievous, destructive or self-indulgent tendencies of its members". By the late 19th century, the present emphasis on dining within the Club began to emerge. Long attested that in 1875 "Bullingdon Club [
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2018–19 Premier Limited Overs Tournament


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Taunton


, after which the County Ground has been solely used by Somerset County Cricket Club. Somerset CCC was formed in 1875, but the club did not achieve first class status until 1891. The County Ground has a capacity of 8,500 and the ends are called the River End and the Old Pavilion End. It is the current home of the England women's cricket team. The Somerset Cricket Museum is situated by the County Ground. Taunton Cricket Club have since 2002 been located at the new Taunton Vale Sports Club Ground, in Staplegrove
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Uxbridge Cricket Club


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, the foremost league in the county. The club offers a number of other sports including bowls, with Uxbridge Bowls Club being founded in 1908. The club has an adjoining rugby club. Uxbridge RFC was formed from two clubs, namely Borderers RFC & Old Creightonians in 1947
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Harare Sports Club


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Glenmore Park, New South Wales


Brumbies. They play home games at Ched Towns Reserve (Like all other Glenmore Park-based sports clubs), and play in the colours white, maroon and gold. Their logo is based on an old Brisbane Broncos logo. Glenmore Park's football club is Glenmore Park FC. They play in purple, yellow and white. They are the largest football club in the Nepean district as administered by the Nepean Football Association. Glenmore Park's cricket club is the Glenmore Park Cricket Club. Like all cricket clubs, they play
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Cregagh


and Malone Rugby Club. While having separate facilities, they are situated on the same road, namely Gibson Park Avenue. Cregagh Cricket Club celebrated its centenary in 2006. The cricket ground is also used by Northern Amateur Football League club Orangefield Old Boys' Association F.C. and is part of Cregagh Sports Club, effectively a merger of the cricket and association football clubs, with both sharing the same Gibson Park Avenue facilities. This alliance was concluded in the early 1980s, with the two clubs being previously unconnected. Ravenhill Stadium, the
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Cricket


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Leeds United F.C.–Manchester United F.C. rivalry


red and Leeds only adopted their white kit in the 1960s, inspired by Real Madrid. There is a similar rivalry in the sport of cricket, in which matches are contested on a county basis. In this case, the "Roses Match" is the name given to games played between Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Lancashire County Cricket Club. Although the clubs cover the larger county region, Yorkshire are based in Leeds and play at the Headingley Stadium, while Lancashire play at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester, close to
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Old Hill Cricket Club


in training on a Friday evening. In addition during the recent years major steps have been taken to initiate a girls’ section within the club and this has been successful with a women's team representing the club for the first time in 2004. In 2005, the girls under-13 team. the girls won the national Lady Taverners girls' championship; beating Bath in the final. As a result of this win, the team was named BBC Midlands Sports Personality of the Year junior team winners 2005. Old Hill Cricket Club subscribes
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Sep Lambert


though, against Scotland in 1920 and against the Irish Military and Scotland in 1921. In all matches for Ireland, Sep Lambert scored 342 runs at an average of 20.12, with a top score of 60 not out against Oxford University in May 1902, his only half-century for Ireland and also his top first-class score. He took ten catches and no stumpings. Sep Lambert came from a cricketing family. His brother Bob was one of Ireland's finest cricketers, and his nephew Ham also played cricket for Ireland
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2018–19 SLC Twenty20 Tournament


also scored a century in the tournament, a day after he was dropped from Sri Lanka's One Day International (ODI) squad for their series against South Africa. Following the conclusion of the group stage fixtures, Chilaw Marians Cricket Club, Colombo Cricket Club, Galle Cricket Club, Moors Sports Club, Nondescripts Cricket Club, Ragama Cricket Club, Sri Lanka Army Sports Club and Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club had all progressed to the knockout phase of the tournament. From the quarterfinals, Colombo Cricket Club, Moors Sports Club
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Bradwell, Milton Keynes


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West Kent Football Club


The West Kent Football Club was a short-lived 19th century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as producing a number of international players in the sport's early international fixtures. West Kent were founded in 1867 by a core of Old Rugbeians including Arthur Guillemard. They used the ground of West Kent cricket club. The cricket club had been founded many years previously after members of the Prince's Plain Cricket Club from Bromley lost their ground
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Andrew Gale


Andrew William Gale (born 28 November 1983) is an English cricket coach and former first-class cricketer, who is first XI coach of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He also co-owns Pro Coach Cricket Academy, with his business partner Chris Brice, providing cricket coaching by professional cricketers. He has taken part in some commentary work for Sky Sports and Yorkshire Radio. Born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, Gale first played cricket for Gomersal Cricket Club when he was eight years old. He also played in the Yorkshire Central
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2018–19 SLC Twenty20 Tournament


, Nondescripts Cricket Club and Sri Lanka Army Sports Club all advanced to the semi-finals. Colombo Cricket Club won their quarterfinal fixture against Ragama Cricket Club in the Super Over, after the match was tied. In the first semi-final, Moors Sports Club beat Sri Lanka Army Sports Club by six wickets, despite Ashan Randika scoring a century for Sri Lanka Army. The second semi-final saw Nondescripts Cricket Club beat Colombo Cricket Club by one run, with the match going to the final ball. Moors Sports Club
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Cricket


""crosser"" as "to play at cricket". One possible source for the sport's name is the Old English word ""cryce"" (or ""cricc"") meaning a crutch or staff. In Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary", he derived cricket from ""cryce", Saxon, a stick". In Old French, the word ""criquet"" seems to have meant a kind of club or stick. Given the strong medieval trade connections between south-east
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Shane Mott


Shane Michael Mott (born 20 March 1985) is an Australian cricketer. Mott is a right-handed batsman who bowls left-arm fast-medium. Mott made his cricket debut when 9 years old for Pitt Town Sports Cricket Club, coached by Harry Stephens. Mott began playing representative cricket for Hawkesbury in the under-14 Moore Shield side which featured future Australian cricketer Steve O'Keefe. He continued to play for Hawkesbury Cricket Club in Grade Cricket, racking up 304 matches (191 in 1st Grade) and 510 wickets (337 in
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York St John University


system); their reserve team also feature in Reserve Division A, which is the top reserve league. Its origins date back to 1872 when J. Morton persuaded the Sports Association to take up association football. The cricket club is probably the oldest club – the first record of cricket being played was in 1848, seven years after the opening on the Training College. The club has strong links with its Old Johns Cricket Association, whose president is ex-student Harry Gration. The hockey club is one of the biggest clubs within
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May's Bounty


as a gift or "Bounty". The current Basingstoke and North Hants Cricket Club was founded in 1865, with the club playing at May's Bounty since then. The first match which was recorded at the ground saw Basingstoke play a United South of England Eleven. Hampshire first played first-class cricket there in 1906 against Warwickshire in the County Championship, which Warwickshire won by 107 runs. The maiden first-class century there was also scored in this match by Warwickshire's Sep Kinneir. Hampshire played there just once more
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Nottinghamians


Nottinghamians RFC is a rugby union club that plays in Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham, England. The club started out as Old Nottinghamians, a club for former pupils of Nottingham High School. The club's ground, on Adbolton Lane next to the National Watersports Centre, is still owned by the Old Nottinghamians Sports Club. In the summer the ground is used by Nottingham Cricket Club. Since 1971, the club has been known simply as "Nottinghamians", and it is no longer a requirement that members should be old boys of
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Mombasa Sports Club


Mombasa Sports Club (MSC) is multi-sport club based in Mombasa, Kenya. It also owns sporting facilities. The club was established in 1896, and it is among the oldest sporting clubs in Kenya. Mombasa Sports Club has a cricket team taking part in the Coast Cricket Association competitions. The Mombasa Sports Club ground is the only fully accredited ODI Cricket ground in Kenya outside of Nairobi. Its acquired this status prior to hosting a three match ODI series between Kenya and Bermuda as well as a triangular ODI Tournament featuring
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Accrington


winning the EFL League Two title in the 2017/18 season. Accrington Cricket Club plays at Thorneyholme Road in the Lancashire League. Cricket is also played in parks. Schools nearby have shown major interest in cricket and have held cricket training and tournaments. Accrington has a golf course. There are many gyms in the town and the council has held fitness classes for the women and old people. There are two sports centres, the main on being the Hyndburn Sports Centre, Which recently renovated their swimming pool area. near Lidl. Accrington
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Sport in Birmingham


exceeded 320 in 1939. These figures do not include teams playing in competitions within individual firms – in the early 1930s the Birmingham Small Arms Company alone supported a cricket league of 14 teams. Today County Cricket is played at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club. International test matches are also held there. In 1882, Bournville Cricket Club was founded in Froggarts Farm on the corner of Bournville Lane and Linden Road, which is now The Old Farm Hotel. The Ground held its first county game when Worcestershire
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Askam and Ireleth


, but withdrew before the start of the season. There is Askam United Football Club who play in the West Lancashire Football League Division Two and Duddon SC, a cricket team based at the old K Shoes factory social club, now called Duddon Sports and Social Club. There is also a newly formed junior football team and due to playing on the Sports Club pitches, has taken the name of Duddon Sports Junior Football Club. A 10-hole links golf course, belonging to the Dunnerholme Golf Club, lies to the north of Askam
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2018–19 Premier League Tournament


Club and Saracens Sports Club, Colombo's Malinda Pushpakumara took all ten wickets in the second innings of the match. Pushpakumara became the second Sri Lankan bowler to take all ten wickets in an innings. It was also the first ten-wicket haul in an innings in first-class cricket since 2009, and the best figures since 1995. Following the conclusion of the group stage, Chilaw Marians Cricket Club, Colombo Cricket Club, Colts Cricket Club, Nondescripts Cricket Club, Saracens Sports Club, Sinhalese Sports Club, Sri Lanka
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Lima Cricket and Football Club


, table tennis, darts, snooker, squash, tennis, swimming and volleyball. Rugby union is no longer practised. The club was founded by English immigrants as the "Lima Cricket Club". From its start, it was a multi-sport club based around the sports of cricket, rugby union, and football; however, there was a central focus on cricket. Over time, other sports gained popularity within the club, and thus its name several times such as in 1865 to "Lima Cricket and Lawn Tennis
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Sport in England


cricket stadiums in England include The Oval, Headingley Carnegie, Old Trafford Cricket Ground and the Trent Bridge Ground. Rugby union and rugby league clubs are generally poorer than their cricket and football counterparts. Some clubs have good all seater grounds in the 10,000-25,000 capacity range; some have older grounds which are still partly terraced; and others play in council-owned joint-use stadia (e.g. the KC Stadium). Some clubs (mostly rugby union ones) rent stadia from football clubs. After the Rugby Football League stipulated
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Uppala


Society Hospital, located in Uppala-Bayar Road. The residents of Uppala play 2 major sports, Football and cricket. There are 2 major clubs in uppala namely "Citizen sports club" and "Manamkuzhi sports club. Citizen sports club is one of the oldest and well known football club in Kerala which has won many trophies and tournaments all over Kerala. Manamkuzhi sports club is also one of the oldest and well known cricket club in Kerala. The main focus of this club is to promote cricket. This town also has
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Cheltenham Saracens RFC


Cheltenham Saracens RFC is an English rugby union club based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, affiliated to Gloucestershire Rugby Football Union. The club's First Team currently play in Gloucester Premier, while their reserve teams play in the Gloucestershire Merit Leagues. The club also runs an under 16's and an under 12s. The club was founded in 1975 after Cheltenham Colts Old Boys RFC joined the Cheltenham Saracens Sports Complex, a multi-sports organisation that fielded teams in other sports, such as football and cricket. The original club
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Alfred Pullin


Alfred William Pullin, known by the pseudonym Old Ebor (30 July 1860 – 23 June 1934), was a British sports journalist who wrote primarily about rugby union and cricket. He wrote mainly for British newspapers the "Yorkshire Post" and the "Yorkshire Evening Post". Considered by critics to be one of the greatest authorities in the country on his two sports, he wrote a daily column using his pseudonym "Old Ebor" for 40 years. Most often associated with his reporting on Yorkshire County Cricket Club, he
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Old Swinford Hospital


team categories. The school runs 3 senior football teams which are coached by former professional footballer Dale Rudge. In Summer the main school sport is cricket. David Banks, the former Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire cricketer is a member of the teams coaching staff. In 2011-2012 the Basketball team suffered only 2 defeats in the entire season. The juniors are coached by Barrie Mann. Other sports include Golf (Old Swinford Hospital owns Stourbridge Golf Club), Squash, Tennis, Rounders, Athletics, Volleyball, hockey and Mountain
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Albinegros de Orizaba


league in 1886, having the first game played in the old "Campo El Yute". The "Orizaba Athletic Club" was founded in 1898 as a sports club where cricket (among other sports) could be practiced. The club was founded by Comish Mac Donald, who owned a local steel company. A few years later, Comish Mac Donald and Thomas Hanghey, along with English Percy C. Clifford (a pioneer in the sport in Mexico City) decided to form a semi-professional league that would include clubs from
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Mill Hill


Michael Frayn was born in Mill Hill. The actor Patrick Troughton, best known as the second Doctor from "Doctor Who", was born in Mill Hill. The founder of Singapore Sir Stamford Raffles, the abolitionist William Wilberforce, and the parliamentarian John Wilkes all lived locally. In 2010 "The X Factor" contestants took up residence. Old Cholmeleians Sports Ground is on Hendon Wood Lane, and provides facilities for football and cricket. It is the home base for Old Cholmeleians Cricket Club. The local rugby club is Mill
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A. E. J. Collins


21 December 1904. Despite the limitations on his sport that the military service caused, he played several matches for Old Cliftonians, his regiment, and the army, remaining a free-hitting batsman. He played at Lord's in 1913 for Royal Engineers Cricket Club against Royal Artillery Cricket Club, scoring 58 and 36 runs in the two innings, but he never played first-class cricket. He also joined Clifton Rugby Football Club in February 1905, but never rose above the 2nd XV. He served with the 2nd Sappers
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Wyndham Vale


improving sporting facilities in Wyndham Vale for the local community. The Wyndham Vale Cricket Club has 6 Senior Men's, 1 Senior Women's and 4 Junior Cricket Teams. It also hosts a Milo Have-A-Go Clinic for children not yet old enough to play junior cricket. The Wyndham Vale Falcons Senior Football Club, an Australian Rules football team, competes in the Western Region Football League. It has 2 Senior Men's Teams. The Wyndham Vale Falcons Junior Football Club has 7 Junior Boys Teams and a Youth Girls
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Old Warden


home to old warden cricket club 'the home of village cricket'. Playing league cricket in the Bicl league on a Saturday and friendly games on a Sunday, many consider them to be one of the finest amateur sports teams in the south of England. Many of the areas finest players have turned out for the village team, including the famous ‘lost generation’ of 1992, coached by Adam Wood, and famous names such as Griffin, Reed, Brownridge, Quenby and Seymour were counted amongst its regular starters. In
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St Stephen-in-Brannel


skateboarding facilities after fundraising to replace the old equipment. The parish is home to many sports teams, societies and clubs. Sports clubs include a bowls team who play on the bowling green at the recreation ground, a cricket team who play their home games at the recreation ground and make use of the new pavilion opened in 2001, and two football teams within St Stephen FC, who play their home games on their pitch in the recreation ground. There are also a number of other sports clubs which make use of the sports
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Old Spierians


Old Spierians RFC was an amateur rugby union club in Glasgow, Scotland. The club no longer exists. In 1972 they merged with Dalry HSFP to form Garnock RFC. Spier's School in Beith, North Ayrshire, had a school rugby union team. Old Spierians RFC was formed when former pupils of the school team wished to continue playing the sport after their graduation. The Old Spierians side came into existence in 1890. There was similarly an Old Spierians cricket club, noted as playing in 1895 against the then current Speir's
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Sport in Manchester


in 1996, Olympic Football in 2012, the 2003 UEFA Champions League Final, the 2008 UEFA Cup Final, 1893, 1911, 1915 and 1970 FA Cup Finals and 1977, 1978 and 1984 Football League Cup Final. Lancashire County Cricket Club, formed in 1865 to replace Manchester Cricket Club, also play at Old Trafford. Manchester has competed twice to host the Olympic Games, being beaten into fourth place by Atlanta in 1996 and coming third to Sydney in 2000. Manchester hosted the 2002 Commonwealth Games with many sporting facilities being
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Coventry and North Warwickshire Sports Club


The Coventry and North Warwickshire Sports Club (CNWSC) (comprising, and formerly called, the Coventry and North Warwickshire Cricket Club (CNWCC), founded in 1851) is an amateur sports club in Coventry, England. Its 1st and 2nd cricket XIs were, as of 2014, in the Birmingham and District Premier League 2nd and 1st Divisions respectively. The cricket teams play their home games at the club's ground in Binley Road, Coventry. Collins Obuya played for the club in 2003. The England cricketer Ian Bell at
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Sep Lambert


Septimus Drummond "Sep" Lambert (3 August 1876 in Dublin, Ireland – 21 April 1959 in Dublin) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he played 14 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1896 and 1921, including seven first-class matches. Lambert was educated at Rathmines School and Wesley College in Dublin and at St John's College in Preston before qualifying as a solicitor in Dublin. Sep Lambert made his debut for Ireland against I Zingari in August 1896. Never a
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Stretford


the UK's top athletic clubs, with more than 100 members having competed at international level. The Stretford Sports Village run by Trafford Community Leisure Trust comprises two main centres: the original Stretford Leisure Centre, now called the Chester Centre, and the facility at Stretford High School called the Talbot Centre. The Stretford Sports Village is between Manchester United Football Club's Old Trafford Stadium and Lancashire County Cricket Club's Old Trafford Ground. The centres have a 25-metre main pool, a 20-metre children's pool, four gyms, a table
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Littlehampton, Clapham and Patching Cricket Club


, the acquisition of the new ground will be greatly appreciated.” The 200 year Sportsfield lease stated – “The Duke has decided to substitute another Field for the said Cricket Field and to vest the same in Trustees for the purpose of Cricket, Football and other sports.” At a meeting in February 1898 it was proposed that the Littlehampton Cricket Club, the Littlehampton Association Football Club, the Littlehampton Swifts Football Club and the Littlehampton Athletic and Cycling Sports Club use the ground. The ground was prepared for sports with fencing and
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Romsey


Other bus services are provided by Wilts & Dorset within the town and to Salisbury, Bluestar to Southampton and Eastleigh and Stagecoach within the town and to Winchester. One of the cricket clubs is Old Tauntonians and Romsey Cricket Club The Wessex League football club Romsey Town FC play at The Bypass Ground, South Front. Romsey Rugby Football Club is based at Romsey Sports Centre. It fields teams of all ages each weekend of the playing season. The town has a swimming pool, the Romsey Rapids. Published every Friday, The "
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2018–19 Premier League Tournament


Army Sports Club and Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club had all progressed to the Super Eight section of the tournament. Meanwhile, Badureliya Sports Club, Burgher Recreation Club, Moors Sports Club, Negombo Cricket Club, Ragama Cricket Club and Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club were all moved to the Plate League phase, with the bottom team being relegated for the next season. In the penultimate round of the Super Eight fixtures, Nondescripts captain Angelo Perera scored a double-century in each innings. This had only been done once before
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Mauritius national cricket team


. The year 2006 has witnessed a transformation in the structure under which the sport is practised in Mauritius. The Maurindia Cricket Club organised the first Day-Night Cricket match at Anjaley Stadium between Indian High Commission – XI Vs Commonwealth XI that was telecasted live on MBC 3 for 4 hours. Maurindia Cricket Club and Riviere du Rempart Star Knitwear Sports Club have joined hands for the promotion of cricket in Mauritius and Federation of Cricket Clubs has been constituted under the patronage of Indian High Commission. The sport has received tremendous support from the
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Prestwich Cricket, Tennis & Bowling Club


Prestwich Cricket, Tennis & Bowling Club, commonly known as PCTBC or Prestwich Cricket Club, is an English multi-sports club from the town of Prestwich, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England. With over 500 members, the club has four official sporting sections fielding amateur teams in cricket, tennis, crown green bowling and association football. Boasting a large social membership section, the club also has teams playing a variety of other sports including cribbage, darts, dominoes, five-a-side football and netball.
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Cricket in Indonesia


-day Jakarta), by the members of the Bataviasche Cricket Club. That club was joined in September 1893 by the Bataviasche Cricket-Football Club, which was incorporated in May 1894. Cricket and association football were introduced to the country around the same time, and many of the early clubs played both sports. Gymnastiek Vereeniging, founded in Medan in November 1887, was one such club, and in 1890 played fixtures in both sports against a club from Penang (in present-day Malaysia). The Singapore Cricket Club
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Queens Sports Club


Queens Sports Club Ground is a stadium in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. It is used primarily used for cricket matches. The stadium has a capacity of up to 13,000. The stadium is the home ground for the Matabeleland Tuskers, who are the current Logan Cup champions. The other Cricket ground in Bulawayo is the Bulawayo Athletic Club. Queen's Sports Club is Zimbabwe's second ground, and the first being the Harare Sports Club. It is situated close to the city center is one of international cricket's most picturesque venues, with
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Nondescripts Cricket Club


Nondescripts Cricket Club (also known by its initials NCC) is a first-class cricket team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The team plays at the Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground. The club was founded in 1888. The name "Nondescripts" is derived from the fact it was intended to be open to anyone, unlike other Colombo-based clubs at the time such as Sinhalese Sports Club, Moors Sports Club and Tamil Union Cricket & Athletic Club which were aligned with a particular ethnic group. 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55
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