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| Team information | |
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| Founded | 1876 |
| Home ground | Balls Park |
| History | |
| MCCC wins | 4 |
| MCCAT wins | 1 |
| FP Trophy wins | 0 |
| Official website | Hertfordshire County Cricket Club |
Hertfordshire County Cricket Club is one of twentyminorcounty clubs within the domesticcricket structure ofEngland andWales. It represents thehistoric county ofHertfordshire.
The team is currently a member of theMinor Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in theMCCA Knockout Trophy. Hertfordshire playedList A matches occasionally from 1964 until 2004 but is not classified as a List A teamper se.[1]
The club is based atBalls Park,Hertford and also plays matches around the county atCricket Field Lane inBishop's Stortford,Long Marston,Brunton Memorial Ground inRadlett andNorth Mymms.
Cricket must have reached Hertfordshire by the end of the 17th century. The earliest reference to cricket in the county is dated 1732 and is also the earliest reference toEssex as a county team. On Thursday 6 July 1732, a team calledEssex & Hertfordshire playedLondon Cricket Club atEpping Forest "for £50 a side". The result is unknown.[2][3]
Hertfordshire was never considered a first-class county but its teams did appear frequently throughout the 18th century and played against some teams that were normally considered first-class, so there must have been times when the status of a Hertfordshire match was "borderline".
On 22 June 1814, Hertfordshire played against theMarylebone Cricket Club in the first match to be staged on the currentLord's ground. This fixture was repeated in 2014 to mark thebicentennial of the ground.
There were a number of county organisations in the 18th century and one in 1838. The present Hertfordshire CCC was founded on 8 March 1876. It joined the Minor Counties Championship for the first season, 1895, and is the only one of the seven competing sides from that season to have maintained membership continuously ever since.[4]
Hertfordshire has won the Minor Counties Championship four times, in 1936, 1975, 1983 and 1990.
Hertfordshire has won theMCCA Knockout Trophy once since its inception in 1983. It won in 1984.
The following Hertfordshire cricketers also made an impact on thefirst-class game:
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