Staffordshire County Cricket Club

Staffordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Staffordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy.

The club is based at Brewood near Cannock and plays matches around the county at Lichfield Road in Stone, Walsall, Knypersley Hall, Longton, Audley and Leek.

The Minor Counties play three-day matches at a level below that of the first-class game. At present, Staffordshire competes in the Eastern Division of the Minor Counties Championship.

Honours

• Minor Counties Championship (10) - 1906, 1908, 1911, 1920, 1921, 1927, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998; shared (0) -
• MCCA Knockout Trophy (2) - 1991, 1993

Earliest cricket

Cricket may have reached Staffordshire by the end of the 17th century. The Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket).

The earliest known reference to cricket being played in Staffordshire is as late as 1817.

Origin of club

The present Staffordshire CCC was founded on 24 November 1871 and took part in the first Minor Counties Championship in 1895. It then lapsed for four years, but has been a member continuously since 1900.

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