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| Personnel | |
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| Captain | Scott Harvey |
| Coach | Godfrey Furse |
| Team information | |
| Founded | 1894; 131 years ago (1894) |
| History | |
| MCCC wins | 1 (2012) |
| MCCAT wins | 1 (2015) |
| FP Trophy wins | 0 |
| Official website | Cornwall County Cricket Club |
Cornwall County Cricket Club is one of twentyminorcounty clubs within the domesticcricket structure ofEngland andWales. It represents thehistoric county ofCornwall. The team has played in theMinor Counties Championship since 1904 and became champions in 2012. They also play in theMCCA Knockout Trophy. Cornwall playedList A matches occasionally from 1970 until 2004 but is not classified as a List A teamper se.[1]
The club play home matches at various venues includingRoskear inCamborne, Trescobeas inFalmouth,Boscawen Park inTruro andWheal Eliza ground inSt Austell.
The first recorded mention of cricket in Cornwall is an advertisement in theSherborne Mercury on 18 June 1781 for the sale of cattle atSt Teath, nearCamelford. The advertisement was dated 14 June 1781 and signed by Nathaniel Long and finished with a note, vizThe evening of the same day will be circketed for a very handsome silver-laced hat.[2]
According to Bowen (1970) a county organisation is known to have existed in 1813 and the first cricket club in Cornwall was known as the Cornish Cricket Club ofTruro.[3] The club moved to a new ground at Bosvigo, near Treyew, in 1844, and at about this time the name of the club was changed to Truro Cricket Club. A number of clubs were formed in the 1820s and for the first time regular inter-club matches took place, as well as the matches within towns such as Over Thirties v Under Thirties and Married v Singles. By the 1850s the large Cornish land-owning families, such as the Fortescue family ofBoconnoc and theAgar-Robartes ofLanhydrock began to encourage the game, and between 1858 and 1870 many of the best English players toured Cornwall with teams such as the "All England Eleven", "North of England Eleven" and the "United Eleven of All England". In 1859 Cornwall lost to the Gentlemen of Devon and matches continued for a few years but were stopped following heavy Cornish defeats; Cornwall did beat Devon by an innings and 29 runs in 1887. Compared with other places, the lack of public schools seems to have held back the development of cricket, but by 1900 there were over one hundred and sixty clubs in Cornwall.[4]
In 1890,Wiliam Bolitho attempted to form a county cricket club, which failed, as there were not enough subscribers to form a club.[5]
The present Cornwall CCC was founded on 11 November 1894 at a meeting presided byLord Robartes at the Talbot Hotel,Lostwithiel. Fifteen affiliated clubs and 114 subscribers contributed £151 6s 0d towards the new club. The first match was played againstDevon on 22–23 July 1895 and they first competed in the Minor Counties Championship in 1904, appearing every year since with the exception of 1920.[6] Cornwall won the Minor Counties Championship for the first time in their history in 2012, beatingBuckinghamshire in the final. In 2015 Cornwall won theUnicorn Knockout Trophy beatingNorthumberland by 7 wickets at Sir Paul Getty's Ground,Wormsley,Buckinghamshire.[7]
The following Cornwall cricketers have played in thefirst-class game:
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