Dorset County Cricket Club

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Dorset County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Dorset and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy.

The club is based at present at Dean Park in Bournemouth, outside the traditional boundaries of the county, and also plays its matches there.

The Minor Counties play three-day matches at a level below that of the first-class game. At present, Dorset competes in the Western Division of the Minor Counties Championship.

1 Honours
2 Earliest cricket
3 Origin of club
4 Club history
5 Famous players
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Honours

Minor Counties Championship (1) - 2000
MCCA Knockout Trophy (1) - 1988

[edit] Earliest cricket

Cricket must have reached Dorset via neighbouring Hampshire by the end of the 17th century.

An advertisement in the Sherborne Mercury dated Tuesday 9 May 1738 is the earliest reference for cricket in Dorset. Twelve Dorchester men at Ridgway Races challenged twelve men from elsewhere to play them at cricket for the prize of twelve pairs of gloves valued at a shilling a pair.

[edit] Origin of club

According to Wisden there was county organisation in existence in either 1862 or 1871. The present Dorset CCC was founded on 5 February 1896 and first entered the Minor Counties Championship in 1902.