Smethwick Cricket Club, founded in 1835, is an amateur
cricket club
Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the evening. There is a great deal of variation in game format although the Laws of Cricket are obse ...
based in
Smethwick
Smethwick () is an industrial town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It lies west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire and then Worcestershire before bei ...
, Sandwell,
England
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. In 1891, Smethwick Cricket Club joined the
Birmingham and District Cricket League. Smethwick have five Senior XI teams: The 1st XI play in the Birmingham & District Premier League Premier Division, and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th XI compete in the
Warwickshire County Cricket League. Smethwick CC also have a Sunday XI that play in the Arden Sunday Cricket League, and an established junior section that plays competitive cricket in the Warwickshire Youth Cricket Leagues. Smethwick have been
Birmingham and District Premier League
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Champions on 3 occasions in 1951, 1968 and 2022.
International players
International players who have played for the club include:
Azhar Mahmood
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,
Mohammad Akram,
Mohammad Yousuf,
Wasim Akram
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,
Kabir Ali
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He star ...
,
Mike Rindel and
Steve Waugh
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.
See also
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Club cricket
Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the evening. There is a great deal of variation in game format although the Laws of Cricket are obse ...
References
External links
Wasim Akram at Smethwick: Documentary (Part 1 of 2) 1999Wasim Akram at Smethwick: Documentary (Part 2 of 2) 1999Smethwick Cricket Club website
Club cricket teams in England
1835 establishments in England
Smethwick
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