Lincolnshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor

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clubs within the domestic

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structure of

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and

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. It represents the historic county of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...

. The team is currently a member of the

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Eastern Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Lincolnshire played

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matches occasionally from 1966 until 2004 but is not classified as a List A team ''per se''. The club is based at Lincoln and plays matches around the county at Lincoln, Bourne,

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln a ...

, London Road, Sleaford and

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Honours

* Minor Counties Championship (2) – 1966, 2003; shared (1) – 2001 * MCCA Knockout Trophy (0) –

Earliest cricket

Cricket probably reached Lincolnshire in the 18th century. The earliest reference to cricket in the county is dated 1792.Bowen, p. 267.

Origin of club

A county organisation was set up in 1853. Grantham's mayor,

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was a prime mover in the development of Lincolnshire cricket, although he played for

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as an amateur. In 1896, he captained an English side in the West Indies. When the Gentlemen of Philadelphia toured England in 1903, they played a Lincolnshire XVI in Grantham with

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scoring 176 runs. The present Lincolnshire CCC was founded on 28 September 1906. It competed in the Minor Counties Championship from 1907 to 1914 and then again from 1924.

Club history

Lincolnshire has won the Minor Counties Championship twice, and also once shared the title. It won the title outright in 1966 and 2003. It shared the accolade in 2001 with

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Knockout Trophy

Lincolnshire has never won the MCCA Knockout Trophy since its inception in 1983.

Notable players

The following Lincolnshire cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game: *

MP * Sonny Ramadhin *

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* Somachandra de Silva *

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* Ian Moore *

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, known as Bobby. * Peter D Johnson *

Geoff Cope Geoffrey Alan Cope (born 23 February 1947) played first-class cricket for Yorkshire from 1966 to 1980, and appeared in three Test matches for England. Life and career Born on 23 February 1947, Burmantofts, Leeds, Yorkshire as the son of a Fr ...

Azeem Rafiq Azeem Rafiq ( ur, عظیم رفیق; born 27 February 1991) is a British Asian cricketer who played professionally in England for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. A right arm off-spin bowler, Rafiq played for the county between 2008 and 2014 and 20 ...

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References

External links

Lincolnshire County Cricket Club website

Minor Counties Cricket Association Official Site
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