Richmond Cricket Club (London)

Richmond Cricket Club is based in Richmond with its home venue in the Old Deer Park. The club was founded in 1862 and now plays in the Middlesex County Cricket League as one of London's largest and most successful amateur clubs.[1]

Richmond Cricket Club
LeagueMiddlesex Premier League
Team information
CityLondon
Founded1862
Home groundOld Deer Park
History
Middlesex Premier League wins1
Official websiteRichmondCC

This article is about the present-day Richmond club. For the 18th century club, see Richmond Cricket Club (18th century).

League cricket

Although Richmond was historically part of Surrey, the club is a member of the Middlesex County Cricket League. When league cricket for clubs around London came into existence, most of Richmond's regular opponents were from North / West London and they therefore joined them in the creation of the Middlesex League, rather than play teams from South London in the Surrey Championship.[2]

The Old Deer Park has hosted a number of Middlesex games.

As of the 2019 season, Richmond compete in the Middlesex Premier League, which it won twice (in 2004 and 2018).[3] It was also champions twice (1989 and 1998) in the years before the creation of the Premier League.

Past players

The Australia international Adam Gilchrist spent a season playing for Richmond in 1989, before he had made his first-class debut. In 2004 a scholarship was set up in his name to allow other young Australian players the chance to have the same experience.[4]

gollark: Here's a "helpful" illustration.
gollark: Consider the scenario: there are two boxes before you. One of the boxes (let us call it "A") is transparent and contains £10000, which you can see. The other box ("B") is opaque. It contains £1000000 if and only if the entity running this weird scenario predicted (beforehand) that you'll take box B and not box A. Historically, it has been right the vast majority of the time about this. Your options are to take both boxes, or just to take B. What do?!
gollark: Anyway, while I exist, Newcomb's paradox is a fun if not particularly related problem in decision theory.
gollark: When have I *ever* said false things?
gollark: I don't believe in beds.

References
  1. Richmond CC website. Retrieved on 14 July 2009.
  2. Why Middlesex?
  3. MCCL History
  4. Gilchrist Scholarship


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.