Shropshire County Cricket Club

Shropshire County Cricket Club
Captain:	Steve Leach
Coach:	Karl Krikken
Founded:	1844
Home ground:	London Road, Shrewsbury
Capacity:	n/a
Minor Counties Championship wins:	n/a
MCCA Knockout Trophy wins:	n/a
FP Trophy wins:	n/a
Official website:	Shropshire County Cricket Club home

Shropshire 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 Shropshire.

The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Shropshire played List A matches occasionally from 1974 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se.^[1]

The club plays at Shrewsbury and around the county at Bridgnorth, Oswestry, Shifnal, Wellington, and Whitchurch.

Honours

Minor Counties Championship (1) - 1973; shared (0) -
MCCA Knockout Trophy (1) - 2010

Earliest cricket

Cricket probably reached Shropshire in the 18th century. According to Bowen, the first reference to cricket in the county was in 1794.

Origin of club

A county organisation existed in either 1819 or 1829, according to Wisden. The present county club is quite new, having been formed on 28 June 1956 and taking part in the Minor Counties Championship from 1957.

Club history

Shropshire has won the Minor Counties Championship once, in 1973. This was the first time the county had even finished in the top 10 of the Minor Counties competition.

Shropshire won the MCCA Knockout Trophy, an annual competition that began in 1983, in 2010.

Notable players

The following Shropshire cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game:

Doug Slade (former Worcestershire slow left-arm bowler)
Somachandra de Silva
Bilal Shafayat (current Hampshire batsmen)
Andy Lloyd
Ian Payne

Chris Rogers, 1 Appearance only. (as his own wiki page states.)

Also professional footballer Steve Ogrizovic played cricket for Shropshire.

Current Squad

Current players for 2016 Season:

Steve Leach(Shifnal) (Capt),
Omar Ali (C & R Hawks),
Ross Aucott (Worfield),
Henry Blofield (Shrewsbury),
Will Cook (Worfield),
Sam Griffiths (Shrewsbury),
Ryan Lockley (Bridgnorth),
Jack McIver (Shifnal),
Richard Oliver (Reigate Priory),
Anthony Parker (Broseley)(Wkt),
David Wainwright (Castleford),
Alex Wyatt (Ticknall)
Ollie Westbury
Henry Blofield
Robert Clarke
Joe Clarke
Adrian Evans
Alex Blofield
Ben Sanderson
Dan Bowen
Ed Foster
Elliot Green
Gurman Randhawa

Grounds

For a complete list of grounds used by Shropshire, see List of Shropshire County Cricket Club grounds.

References

↑ "List A events played by Shropshire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 January 2016.

External sources

Current grounds	Cricket Meadow, Bridgnorth Heath Road, Whitchurch Morda Road, Oswestry Priorslee Road, Shifnal

Previous grounds	Grove Ground, Market Drayton London Road, Shrewsbury Audley Avenue, Newport St George's Cricket Ground, Telford High Town, Bridgnorth Perkins Cricket Club Ground, Shrewsbury Orleton Park, Wellington Ellesmere College Ground, Ellesmere The Avenue, Uppington The Burway, Ludlow Sir John Moore Barracks Ground, Shrewsbury Wrekin College Ground, Wrekin Heath Road, Whitchurch The Kynaston Ground, Wem (Full list of grounds)

Captains

List of Shropshire County Cricket Club captains

Records

Shropshire List A cricket records

Minor counties cricket in England and Wales

Competitions	Minor Counties Championship MCCA Knockout Trophy

Western Division	Berkshire Cheshire Cornwall Devon Dorset Herefordshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Wales Minor Counties Wiltshire

Eastern Division	Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cumberland Hertfordshire Lincolnshire Norfolk Northumberland Staffordshire Suffolk

Former Minor counties	Durham Glamorgan Northamptonshire Worcestershire

Defunct Minor counties	Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Denbighshire Monmouthshire

Other Minor counties	Huntingdonshire Isle of Wight

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