Perth County Cricket Club

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Perth County Cricket Club
Perth CCC Logo.jpg
NicknameThe Big County
Personnel
CaptainGraham Ferguson (last)
Team information
City Perth, Scotland
Colours  
Founded1826;199 years ago (1826)
Dissolved2009;16 years ago (2009)
Home ground North Inch
History
Scottish County Championship  wins29
Scottish Cup wins2
Official website Perth CCC (Archived from original)

Perth County Cricket Club, commonly known as Perthshire, was a cricket club based in Perth. Founded in 1826, it was one of the most successful sides in the country. [1]

Nicknamed the Big County owing to the geographic size of its namesake, it won the Scottish County Championship a record 29 times, with their last win coming in 1978. [2]

Perthshire developed a fierce rivalry with neighbouring county side Forfarshire, often described as the Scottish equivalent of the Roses Match. [3] During one such game in 1903 at its historic home ground, the North Inch, a stand collapsed, injuring over 150 people. [4]

In 2009, in part due to vandalism of the North Inch, as well as long-term financial troubles after the 1993 Perth flood, the club was dissolved. [5]

In 2012, three years after Perthshire's demise, plans were approved to merge the remaining cricket clubs in the city and create a unified club called Perth Doo'cot, named after the cricket ground chosen to host the new team's games. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Perth" . Perthshire Courier. 13 July 1826. p. 3. Retrieved 30 October 2025– via the British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ↑ "Perth Champions" . Sunday Post. 6 August 1978. p. 35. Retrieved 30 October 2025– via the British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "The Cricketing Derby at Forthill" . Dundee Courier. 3 July 1908. p. 6. Retrieved 30 October 2025– via the British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "The Perth Calamity" . Dundee Evening Post. 3 August 1903. p. 2. Retrieved 30 October 2025– via the British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ Drysdale, Neil (11 February 2009). "Perth county cricket club on the brink of extinction". Herald Scotland . Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  6. ↑ Bannerman, Gordon (2 September 2008). "Plans to transform Big County cricket". Perthshire Advertiser . Retrieved 30 October 2025.
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