Cornwall Cricket League

Cornwall Cricket League

Countries	United Kingdom
Administrator	Cornwall Cricket Board
Format	Limited overs (55 per team)
First tournament	2001 (2001)
Tournament format	League
Number of teams	10
Current champion	St Just
Most successful	St Just (8)
Website	Cornwall Cricket League

The Cornwall Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Cornwall, UK and is a designated an England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Premier League.^[1] The current champions are Werrington who won the competition for the third time in 2015. The most successful club is St Just, winning the competition seven times in fifteen seasons.

Format

The ECB Cornwall Premier league consists of a division of ten teams each playing the others on a home and away basis, to make a total of eighteen matches each.

2016

Participating teams and locations

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Final table

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History

From 1905 until 1989 there were two top divisions in Cornwall; Cornwall Senior League 1 East and Cornwall Senior League 1 West. The teams finishing in first place played for the Western Morning News Cup with the winner declared champions of Cornwall. The last winners of the Western Morning Cup was St Gluvias who beat St Austell by 22 runs. In 1990 the top six clubs in the east and west leagues formed County League One with St Just winning the league despite only finishing 6th in the western league the previous season. The irony of St Just winning the first title was they were initially against an all Cornwall league because of the increased expenditure of travel for teams in the far west.^[4]

The English Cricket Board accredited Cornwall Premier league was formed in 2001, with a number of changes to the format of the matches. The league was reduced from twelve to ten with each teams playing the others on three occasions. Matches now consisted of a maximum of 120 overs with the team batting first having the option of using up to 60 overs, postponed matches did not have to be replayed, and winning and losing draws were once more allowed. It was also the first time that there was a Cornwall-wide administrative body; previously the east and west leagues had separate administrators. There was a number of advantages to participating in the ECB league structure which included financial assistance of £9,500 per year and encouragement to improve facilities and coaching.^[4] Truro were champions in the first two seasons without losing a single match, having an unbeaten run of over fifty matches. Newquay followed their promotion the previous season by becoming champions of Cornwall for the first time in 2003. St Buryan had been the runners-up in the first three seasons but decided to withdraw from the league in November 2003, due to the belief that their team would not competitive, leading to the division being reduced to nine teams. In 2004 the clubs decided to share the 110 overs per match equally and St Just won the first of their six successive championships beating Truro, the second-placed team, on the final day of the season.^[4] St Just's run came to an end in 2010 when local rivals Paul won the championship for the first time (having been runner-up three seasons previous).^[5]

Competing teams

The following teams have competed in the league since its inception in 2001.

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References

External links

• Cornwall Cricket website