Cambridge Town Club (CTC) was a

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club established in

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before 1817. Among notable players who represented CTC were Tom Hayward senior, Robert Carpenter and

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. It co-existed with

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, an entirely separate entity, and the two teams played each other on numerous occasions.ACS, ''Important Cricket Matches'', pp. 32–39. As with similar leading town clubs, the CTC team was representative of the county of

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as a whole and it ultimately evolved into the original Cambridgeshire county club, but various team names were in use and the town and county clubs were effectively the same thing, both of them folding by the end of the 1870s.Birley, p.83. The names used for first-class matches were Cambridge Town Club (1817–61), Cambridgeshire (1844–71), Cambridge Union Club (1826–33), Cambridge Townsmen (one match only in 1848) and the Cambridge Town and County Club (1844–56). According to the

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(ACS), this nomenclature has created a scenario whereby "it is impossible to separate the Town Club from that of the County in major matches".ACS, ''Important Cricket Matches'', pp. 6–7. The modern

Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Cambridgeshire including the Isle of Ely. The original Cambridgeshire clu ...

, which plays in the

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, was founded in 1891 and has no connection with the CTC.''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1983 edition, p. 278.

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