The Somerset Cricket Board (SCB) is the governing body for all recreational
cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...
in the
historic county of
Somerset
Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east ...
, and was established in 1994 under its first Cricket Development Officer Andrew Moulding. Following a restructuring in January 2010, the SCB now operates as a
limited company
In a limited company, the Legal liability, liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company. Limited companies may be limited by Share (finance), shares or by guarantee. In a c ...
. The current SCB Chairman is Andy Curtis, and the Cricket Development Manager is Andy Fairbairn.
The Somerset Cricket Board competed in the
MCCA Knockout Trophy
The National Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the National Counties in English cricket. At first it was known as the ''English Industrial Estates Cup'', before being called the ...
between 1998 and 2002. They have appeared in five
List A
List A cricket is a classification of the Limited overs cricket, limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competit ...
matches, making two
NatWest Trophy
The Friends Provident Trophy was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom.
It was one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class counties competed each season. They were joined by teams from Scotland and Ireland. Lan ...
and three
Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy appearances.
List A players
:''See
List of Somerset Cricket Board List A players and
:Somerset Cricket Board cricketers''
Grounds
''Below is a complete list of grounds used by the Somerset Cricket Board representative side when it was permitted to play List A and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.''
References
External links
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County Cricket Boards
Cricket in Somerset
Organisations based in Taunton