National
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, c ...
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
clubs within the domestic
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
structure of
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
and
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of , ...
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.
Origin of club
According to
Wisden
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...
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.
Club history
Dorset has won the Minor Counties Championship twice, in 2000 and 2010.
Dorset has won the MCCA Knockout Trophy once since its inception in 1983. It won in 1988.
Peter Badham
Peter Henry Christopher Badham (11 February 1911 – 10 April 1983) was an English cricketer. Badham was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Bagworth, Leicestershire and educated at Winchester College, whe ...
Patrick Barrow
Patrick Lindsay Barrow (22 January 1893 – 7 May 1974) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Essex in the 1922 season. He was born in Plaistow and died in Adstock.
Barrow had previously playe ...
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Leslie Bean
Colonel Leslie Hugh Bean OBE (2 February 1906 – 13 January 1988) was a British Army officer who played first-class cricket for Somerset in three matches in the 1929 season. He also played Minor Counties cricket more frequently for Dorse ...
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Rayner Blitz
Rayner John Blitz (born 25 March 1968 at Watford, Hertfordshire), was a cricketer who played five first-class matches and one List A match for Somerset in 1986.
A diminutive wicketkeeper and right-handed batsman who had played for Essex's se ...
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Bertie Bolton
Robert Henry Dundas Bolton (13 January 1893 – 30 October 1964) was an English first-class cricketer, soldier, police officer and Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Constabulary.
The son of Edward Crawford Bolton, he was born in British Indi ...
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Thomas Bowley
Thomas Bowley (28 February 1857 — 8 November 1939) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey from 1885 to 1891.
Bowley was born in Old Basford, Nottinghamshire. He began playing for Nottinghamshire in 1879 and for Northampt ...
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Derek Bridge
Derek James Wilson Bridge (1921-2012) was an English cricketer who played for Northamptonshire and Oxford University in 1947. He was born in Manchester on 30 November 1921 and died in Builth Wells on 13 March 2012. He appeared in four first-clas ...
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Charles Brutton
Charles Phipps Brutton (20 January 1899 – 11 May 1964) was an amateur English cricketer.
The son of the cricketer Septimus Brutton, he was born at Southsea in January 1899. He was educated at Winchester College, where he played for the cri ...
Edgar Chester-Master
Edgar Chester-Master (6 May 1888 – 17 September 1979) was an English cricketer. He was born in Westminster and died in Durban.
Chester-Master made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1911 season, against Middlesex
M ...
Ray Dovey
Raymond Randall Dovey (18 July 1920 – 27 December 1974), known as Ray Dovey, was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club from 1938 to 1954.
Dovey was born in Chislehurst in Kent in 1920 and first played for Kent before t ...
Douglas Freeman
Douglas Percy Freeman (21 July 1916 – 3 April 2013) was an English cricketer. Freeman was a left-handed batsman who played for Dorset County Cricket Club and Kent County Cricket Club.Paul Garlick
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* Harold Gimblett
* John Gordon
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James Graham-Brown
James Martin Hilary Graham-Brown (born 11 July 1951) is a former English professional cricketer and schoolteacher. He is now a playwright who writes under the pen name Dougie Blaxland.
Early life and education
Graham-Brown was born at Thetford ...
Philip Hope
Philip Palmer Hope (10 February 1889 – 19 May 1962) played first-class cricket, first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club, Somerset from 1914 to 1925. He was born at Hartlepool, County Durham, and died at Clifton, Bristol, Clif ...
Gilbert Jessop
Gilbert Laird Jessop (19 May 1874 – 11 May 1955) was an English cricket player, often reckoned to have been the fastest run-scorer cricket has ever known. He was Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1898.
Career
Jessop was born in Cheltenham, ...
Matthew Keech
Matthew Keech (born 21 October 1970) is an English former cricketer and cricket coach.
Keech was born at Hampstead in October 1979. He played for England Young Cricketers in both Youth Test and One Day International matches in 1989 and 1990. K ...
Jack Leach
Matthew Jack Leach (born 22 June 1991) is an English professional cricketer who plays internationally for the England Test cricket team. In domestic cricket, he represents Somerset. Leach made his Test debut in 2018. He plays as a left-arm or ...
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Richard Lewis Richard, Rich, Richie, Rick, Ricky or Dick Lewis may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Richard Field Lewis Jr. (1907–1957), American radio network owner
* Dick "Rocko" Lewis (Richard Henry Lewis III, 1908–1966), American entertainer
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Jacob Lintott
Jacob Benedict Lintott (born 22 April 1993) is an English cricketer.
Lintott attended Queen's College, Taunton, where he captained the First XI in 2010 and 2011 and set new run-scoring and wicket-taking records for the school, with 2,723 runs ...
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Steve Malone
Steven John Malone (born 1953) is a former English first-class cricketer. Malone was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium.
Early career
Malone made his debut in county cricket for Essex in the 1975 season against Cambridge U ...
Walter McBride
Walter Nelson McBride (27 November 1904 — 30 January 1974) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of Walter Sydney McBride, he was born at Croydon in November 1904. McBride was educated at Westminster School, where he captained the sc ...
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Cuan McCarthy
Cuan Neil McCarthy (24 March 1929 – 14 August 2000) was a South African cricketer who played in fifteen Test matches from 1948 to 1951.
Life and career
One of five children born to Victor and Phyllis McCarthy, Cuan McCarthy grew up on "Glen ...
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Lewis McManus
Lewis David McManus (born 9 October 1994) is an English first-class cricketer. He is a right-handed wicket-keeper batsmen.
McManus is a promising wicketkeeper-batsman from Bournemouth who has come through Hampshire's academy. He was part of th ...
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Richard Merriman
Richard Peter Merriman (born 12 November 1958) was an English cricketer. Merriman was a right-handed batsman, a leg break bowler and occasionally played as a wicketkeeper.
Merriman made his debut for Dorset in the 1986 Minor Counties Champions ...
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Jigar Naik
Jigar Kumar Hakumatrai Naik (born 10 August 1984) is an English cricket player. Jigar was both at Leicester and educated at Rushey Mead School and Gateway College in the city. He is, as of June 2015, playing for Leicestershire.
Naik who playe ...
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Geoffrey Ogilvy
Geoffrey Littlejohn Ogilvy (25 January 1906 – 20 January 1962) played first-class cricket for Somerset in two matches in the 1936 season. He was born at Lewisham in London and died at Dreemskerry, Maughold, Isle of Man.
Educated at S ...
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Felix Organ
Felix Spencer Organ (born 2 June 1999) is an Australian-born English cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Hampshire in the 2017 County Championship on 13 September 2017. He made his List A debut for Hampshire in the 2017–18 Regional Su ...
Roger Sillence
Roger John Sillence (born 29 June 1977) is an English cricketer, best known for his time playing for Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.
After several years of minor counties cr ...
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Harold Stephenson
Harold William Stephenson (18 July 1920 – 23 April 2008) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Somerset. He captained Somerset from 1960 until his retirement in 1964.
Stephenson is easily the most successful wicket-keeper in his ...
Larry Worrell
Lawrence 'Larry' Roosevelt Worrell (born 28 August 1943) is a Barbadian-born English former first-class cricketer.
Worrell was born in Barbados at Saint Thomas, and was educated on the island at Combermere School. He came to England to join ...
Dean Park Cricket Ground
Dean Park is a cricket ground in Bournemouth, England, currently used by Bournemouth University Cricket Club, as well as by Parley Cricket Club and Suttoners Cricket Club. It was formerly used by Hampshire and Dorset County Cricket Clubs. This v ...
in Bournemouth, which is historically part of neighbouring
Hampshire
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...
Sherborne
Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The parish includes the hamlets of Nether Coombe and Lower Clatcombe. ...
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References
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Rowland Bowen
Major Rowland Francis Bowen (27 February 1916 – 4 September 1978) was a British Army officer and a cricket researcher, historian and writer.
Educated at Westminster School, Bowen received an emergency commission in April 1942 into the In ...
, ''Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development'', Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
* Tony Percival, ''Dorset Cricketers'', ACS Publications, 2017
* E W Swanton (editor), ''Barclays World of Cricket'', Guild, 1986
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Playfair Cricket Annual
''Playfair Cricket Annual'' is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. It has been published every year since 1948. Its main purposes are to revie ...
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...