League | Northamptonshire Cricket League |
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Team information | |
Colors | Blue Gold |
Founded | 1836 |
Home ground | Avenue Road, Finedon, Wellingborough |
History | |
Premier wins | 13 |
Official website | finedondolben |
Finedon Dolben Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based in Finedon, Northamptonshire, England. Finedon Dolben have 4 senior XI teams in the Northamptonshire Cricket League, [1] and an established Junior Section, who play in both the Higham & District Youth League [2] and the Corby and District Youth Cricket League [3] [4]
Finedon Dolben Cricket Club was founded in 1836 and records show that they joined the Kettering & District Cricket League in 1896. [5] After many years of league activity, resulting in numerous championship title wins, [6] Finedon Dolben became a member of the Northamptonshire Cricket League. Since the Northamptonshire Cricket League was designated an ECB Premier League in 1999, [7] Finedon Dolben is one of only three cricket clubs (Finedon Dolben, Old Northamptonians and Peterborough Town) to have held a constant presence in the highest level of competition for recreational club cricket in Northamptonshire, with eleven ECB Premiership league championship titles to their name. [8]
The Northamptonshire Cricket League competition results showing the club's positions in the league (by Division) since 1999.
Key | |
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Gold | Champions |
Red | Relegated |
Grey | League Suspended |
Key | |
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P | ECB Premier Division |
1 | Division One |
2 | Division Two, etc. |
Team | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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1st XI | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
2nd XI | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
3rd XI | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | |||||
4th XI | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
Source: [9]
Division | Year(s) |
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Premier | 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2022, 2023 |
Division Two | 2019 |
Division Six | 2014 |
Division Seven | 2013 |
Division Eight | 2012 |
Division Nine | 2021 |
Division Ten | 2019 |
Division Eleven | 2004, 2006, 2017 |
Result | Cup | Year |
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Winners | Hevey NCL T20 Championship - Finals Day | 2019 |
Northamptonshire County Knock-out Cup | 1998, 1999, 2003 |
Division | Year(s) |
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Premier | 1997, 1998 |
Division One | 1973 |
Division Two | 1957 |
Division Three | 1967 |
Division | Year(s) |
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Division One | 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934 |
Source: [10]
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