 Rutland Sports Park (2022) | |
| League | Derbyshire County Cricket League |
|---|---|
| Team information | |
| Founded | 1824 |
| Home ground | Rutland Sports Park, Ilkeston |
| History | |
| Div 1 wins | 1 |
| Div 2 wins | 3 |
| Official website | Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club |
Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England. The club has a history dating back to 1824. [1] [2]
Ilkeston Rutland's main ground is the Rutland Sports Park, on Oakwell Drive in Ilkeston which includes a two lane, all-weather net facility. Their second ground is at The Stute on Hallam Field Road. [3] The 1st and 2nd XI teams use the Rutland Sports Park pitch, rated by the DCCL as a Grade A+ ground, and the 3rd and 4th XI use the pitch on The Stute, rated as a Grade B ground. [4] Their main ground (Rutland Sports Park) has a proud history of annually hosting 1st Class recreation matches between 1925 – 1994. [5] In 1977, the ground hosted Derbyshire's Gillette Cup quarter-final tie against a Somerset side which included Ian Botham, Viv Richards and Joel Garner, when on an extremely hot day, 11,000 spectators packed into the ground. [6]
Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club was formed in 1829, and led a peripatetic existence for its first 100 years. [2] The earliest known record of a cricket ground for Ilkeston was a field near to Lawn Cottage, Pimlico, donated by the Duke of Rutland. A few years later a ground to the south of St. Mary's churchyard was made available, known as the Old Cricket Ground. [7] [8] By 1876, the club relocated to a new ground on land also loaned by the Duke of Rutland on the understanding that the local authority would develop it into a recreation ground. However, the ground quality at this stage was so poor that turf had to be lifted and transported from the Old Cricket Ground. [7] Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club was one of the founder members of the Derbyshire League in 1890. The club then joined the Ilkeston & District League, and won in 1909. [2] In 1914 George V visited Ilkeston and the land was finally passed to the authority and the ground extended. [9] The cricket ground was prepared to county match standards and officially opened as the Rutland Recreation Ground on Wednesday 6 May 1925. [10] Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club tendered to use the ground and started to use it the following year. [2] Derbyshire played the first match there later that summer, and continued to do so until 1994. [5] After a break during the Second World War, the club was revived in 1947. [2] By 1978 the club started off the club's junior section. [11] In 1982, the club amalgamated with the Ilkeston Casuals, winning the O J Jackson Cup the same year, [2] and in 2017, the club amalgamated with the Stanton Elks, originally called the Stanton & Awsworth Elks Cricket Club. [12]
The Club currently has 4 senior teams competing in the Derbyshire County Cricket League, a women's softball team in the East Midlands Women's Cricket League [13] [14] and a long established and very successful junior training section that play competitive cricket in the Erewash Young Cricketers League. [15]
The Derbyshire County Cricket League competition results showing the club's positions in the league (by Division) since 2002. [16]
| Key | |
|---|---|
| Gold | Champions |
| Red | Relegated |
| Grey | League suspended |
| cont... | |
|---|---|
| P | ECB Premier League |
| 1 | Division 1 |
| 2 | Division 2 |
| 3 | Division 3, etc. |
| cont... | |
|---|---|
| N | North |
| S | South |
| E | East |
| C | Central |
| Team | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st XI | P | P | P | P | P | 1 | P | P | P | P | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1N | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2nd XI | 3C | 3N | 3N | 3N | 3N | 3N | 3N | 4N | 4N | 4N | 4N | 4N | 5N | 6S | 6S | 5N | 5N | 4N | 4NS | 4N | 3N | 4N |
| 3rd XI | 5A | 7C | 6N | 6N | 6C | 6C | 7E | 8N | 8N | 8N | 9N | 9N | 9N | 9N | 10N | 7N | 7N | 7N | 7NS | 7S | 7S | 7N |
| 4th XI | 9N | 10EC | 9E | 9CS | 9CS | 10C | ||||||||||||||||
| Derbyshire County Cricket League | ||
| Division 1 | Champions | 1994 |
| Division 2 | Champions | 1982, 1993, 2017 |
| Division 5 | Champions | 2001, [lower-alpha 1] 2018 [lower-alpha 2] |
| Division 7 | Champions | 1988 |
| DCCL – Cup Competitions | ||
| Winners | Derbyshire Cup | 1994 |
| Winners | Derbyshire Plate Final | 1994 |
| Mayor of Derby Charity Cup Competitions | ||
| Winners | OJ Jackson Cup | 1982, 1994, 2018 |
| Winners | Butterley Cup | 2017 |
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