Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club
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Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club, representing the traditional counties of Wales is the only non-English member of the Minor Counties Championship in the English domestic cricket structure.
The club is based at St Helen's, Swansea, and also plays matches around the nation at Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Pontarddulais Park and Mumbles Cricket Club. [1][2]
The Minor Counties play three-day matches at a level below that of the first-class game. At present, Wales competes in the Western Division of the Minor Counties Championship. It joined the championship in 1988 after Somerset's second eleven left the competition.
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[edit] Honours
- Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (0) -
- MCCA Knockout Trophy (0) -
[edit] Earliest cricket
[edit] Origin of club
[edit] Club history
Welsh counties have formerly competed individually in the Minor Counties Championship. Glamorgan was easily the most successful and it became first-class in 1921. The others were Carmathen from 1908 to 1911; Denbigh from 1930 to 1935; and Monmouth from 1901 to 1934.
Wales has never won the Minor Counties Championship.
Wales has never won the MCCA Knockout Trophy.
[edit] Famous players
The following Wales cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game:
- Colin Metson
[edit] External links
| Minor counties of English cricket |
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Western Division: Berkshire | Cheshire | Cornwall | Devon | Dorset | Herefordshire | Oxfordshire | Shropshire | Wales Minor Counties | Wiltshire |
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Eastern Division: Bedfordshire | Buckinghamshire | Cambridgeshire | Cumberland | Hertfordshire | Lincolnshire | Norfolk | Northumberland | Staffordshire | Suffolk |
