Suffolk County Cricket Club

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Suffolk County Cricket Club
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Founded1932
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Suffolk County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Suffolk.

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The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Suffolk played List A matches occasionally from 1966 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se. [1]

History

The first known cricket played in Suffolk took place in 1743. The first county match took place at Bury St Edmunds race course in August 1764 with a Norfolk side as the opponents, [2] with three further matches played during the same year between the sides, one at Diss and the other two at nearby Scole. [3] Suffolk sides continued to play matches into the 19th century, including four matches against MCC sides which are considered first-class, two in 1830 and two in 1847. [4]

The first county club was formed in July 1864, and in 1904 the side joined the Minor Counties Championship. Minor Counties matches were played until 1914. Following World War I the county club folded, with the club secretary having been killed on active service and the treasurer having left the county. [2] The current county club was founded in August 1932 and rejoined the Minor Counties Championship in 1934. The side's first Minor Counties title was won in 1946, and in 1966 the first List A cricket played by the county took place, a Gillette Cup tie against Kent at Ipswich School. [2] [4]

Further Minor Counties titles followed in 1977 and 1979, and in 2005 the county shared the title with Cheshire following a rain-affected final. In 2007 they won their only one-day title, winning the MCCA Knockout Trophy against Cheshire at Lord's. [2]

Honours

Grounds

Suffolk plays cricket at a variety of grounds across the county. In 2024, home matches were played at Wamil Way in Mildenhall, Old London Road at Copdock near Ipswich, the Victory Ground at Bury St Edmunds, at Ipswich School, and at Friar's Street in Sudbury.

The Victory Ground has been in use by the county since 1934, with Ipswich School first used for a county match the following year. Between 1904 and 1904 the side played 101 Minor Counties Championship matches at the Town Ground in Felixstowe, the most it has played at any ground.

References

  1. ↑ "List A events played by Suffolk". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 History, Suffolk Cricket. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
  3. ↑ Hounsome K (2015) A Game Well Played: a history of cricket in Norfolk, pp. 17–18. Norwich: Hounsome. ISBN   978-0-9932296-0-2
  4. 1 2 Matches played by Suffolk (England), CricketArchive. Retrieved 2025-03-31. (subscription required)
  5. 1 2 "Minor Counties Roll of Honour". www.ecb.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 September 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
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