Thames Valley Cricket League

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The Thames Valley Cricket League is a mostly amateur cricket league, catering to clubs geographically to the west of London, with clubs coming from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire and Surrey, though most are from Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. The league, once the top level of amateur cricket in the area, has become a feeder league for the Home Counties Premier Cricket League since the creation of the Premier League, however the standard of the league is considered to be high, evidenced by the proliferation of Thames Valley League sides in the Premier Leagues, as well as the large uptake of expansion places in the league.

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Format

The league is played on Saturday afternoons, and the matches are 100 overs in length. The side batting first can bat for a maximum of 52 overs, and the chasing team can use all overs not used by them. In Divisions 8 and 9, the matches are 90 overs on length with the side batting first allowed a maximum of 47 overs. Points are awarded as follows:

Note that no bonus points are awarded to the winning team.

Winners

YearChampions [1]
2021 Stoke Green Cricket Club
2020 Cove Cricket Club
2019 Wargrave Cricket Club
2018 Cookham Dean Cricket Club
2017 Wokingham Cricket Club
2016 Chesham Cricket Club
2015 Cookham Dean Cricket Club
2014 Kew Cricket Club
2013 Amersham Cricket Club
2012 Reading Cricket Club
2011 Cove Cricket Club
2010 Burnham Cricket Club
2009 Harefield Cricket Club
2008 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
2007 Thatcham Town Cricket Club
2006 Kew Cricket Club
2005 Wokingham Cricket Club
2004 North Maidenhead Cricket Club
2003 NPL Teddington Cricket Club
2002 Gerrards Cross Cricket Club
2001 Farnham Royal Cricket Club
2000 Burnham Cricket Club
1999 High Wycombe Cricket Club
1998 Hounslow Cricket Club
1997 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1996 Basingstoke Cricket Club
1995 Ickenham Cricket Club
1994 Finchampstead Cricket Club
1993 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1992 Reading Cricket Club
1991 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1990 Boyne Hill Cricket Club
1989 Basingstoke Cricket Club
1988 Basingstoke Cricket Club
1987 High Wycombe Cricket Club
1986 Maidenhead & Bray Cricket Club
1985 Basingstoke Cricket Club
1984 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1983 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1982 Uxbridge Cricket Club
1981 Reading Cricket Club
1980 Ickenham Cricket Club
1979 Hounslow Cricket Club
1978 High Wycombe Cricket Club
1977 Reading Cricket Club
1976 Maidenhead & Bray Cricket Club
1975 Reading Cricket Club
1974 Reading Cricket Club
1973 Gerrards Cross Cricket Club
1972 Basingstoke Cricket Club

Member Clubs

ClubNumber of Teams
Aldershot Cricket Club 5
Amersham Cricket Club 4
Bagshot Cricket Club 3
Barnes Cricket Club 1
Beaconsfield Cricket Club 3
Boyne Hill Cricket Club 4
Bracknell Cricket Club 2
Burnham Cricket Club 3
Chalfont St. Peter Cricket Club 2
Chenies & Latimer Cricket Club 3
Chesham Cricket Club 3
Chiswick & Latymer Cricket Club 4
Cookham Dean Cricket Club 4
Cove Cricket Club 5
Datchet Cricket Club 4
Eversley Cricket Club 4
Falkland Cricket Club 3
Farnham Common Cricket Club 3
Farnham Royal Cricket Club 2
Finchampstead Cricket Club 5
Fleet Cricket Club 3
Gerrards Cross Cricket Club 2
Harefield Cricket Club 3
Hayes Cricket Club 4
Henley Cricket Club 2
High Wycombe Cricket Club 4
Hillingdon Manor Cricket Club 2
Hurst Cricket Club 2
Ickenham Cricket Club 5
Kew Cricket Club 4
Kidmore End Cricket Club 4
Maidenhead and Bray Cricket Club 4
Marlow Cricket Club 3
Marlow Park Cricket Club 1
Newbury Cricket Club 3
North Maidenhead Cricket Club 2
NPL Teddington Cricket Club 3
Old Merchant Taylors Cricket Club 3
Princes Risborough Cricket Club 2
Purley on Thames Cricket Club 2
Reading Cricket Club 4
Royal Ascot Cricket Club 4
Ruislip Cricket Club 2
Slough Cricket Club 4
Sonning Cricket Club 2
Stoke Green Cricket Club 3
Thatcham Town Cricket Club 4
Theale & Tilehurst Cricket Club 3
Tring Park Cricket Club 3
Wargrave Cricket Club 4
Windsor Cricket Club 3
Wokingham Cricket Club 5
Wooburn Narkovians Cricket Club 2
Yateley Cricket Club 3

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References

  1. "Thames Valley Cricket League - Previous Years Tables". www.tvlcricket.com. Retrieved 29 April 2019.

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