Cheltenham Cricket Club is anEnglish amateurcricket club based inCheltenham,Gloucestershire first envisioned in 1891. It played its first game on 21 June 1897 against a picked XI ofWG Grace. The club's first team plays in theWest of England Premier League which is an accreditedECBPremier League, the highest level for recreationalclub cricket in England and Wales. It has also been a Ladies Hockey Club in 1899, tennis club in 1912 and training area for the armed forces duringWorld War I. It hostedCounty Championship cricket matches, from 1923 until 1937, and junior cricket since 1921.
Cheltenham have won theECB National Club Cricket Championship twice, in 1970 and 1978,[1] and been the premier league champions on one occasion, in 2004. Prior to the formation of the WEPL, Cheltenham competed in the Western League, winning that league three times in four seasons between 1989 and 1992. The club have also won the Gloucestershire County Knock-out Cup on two occasions.[2]
During the 1920s and 1930s, Cheltenham'sVictoria Ground was a regular venue forfirst-class matches involvingGloucestershire, but since that time it has only hosted a single first-class fixture, when Gloucestershire played theIndian tourists in 1986. The ground has also hosted aNatWest Trophy match and twoICC Trophy matches.[3]
