Norwich
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Norwich
CRICKET CLUB
W
hile
officially
formed in 1999,
Norwich CC is
actually made up
of two different teams (Ingham and
District Cricket Club and Norwich
Barleycorns Cricket Club) that merged
with long-term goals involving
resources and players in mind.
Certainly it proved to be a good move,
since a mere eighteen months later they
won the East Anglian Premier League
Trophy, the Bob Carter Challenge
Cup and the Bennett’s Floodlit
Challenge Trophy (that’s just
the men!) with the ladies
adding their win in the
Norfolk and Suffolk
Marsh Ladies League
to the tally.
There is a lot of
history in each of
the separate merged
teams.
Ingham
was founded in
1895 and has the
solid foundations.
They have hosted
numerous benefit
matches throughout
the 1960s and 1970s
with a number of the
world’s top cricketers
taking part and the
Norfolk Alliance title
has been theirs six times
between 1975 and 1994.
On the other side, Norwich
Barleycorns is actually comprised
of three amalgamated teams – the
Norwich Cavaliers (founded 1964), St
Barnabas (1924) and Barleycorns (1946).
They all came together in 1985 because
they all lacked a ground with longterm security. Since then they played at
Postwick, the ground St Barnabas were
previously using.
There are five adult teams – 3 men, 1
ladies and a Sunday league – as well as
several junior teams.
Their junior section is one of the
standout features at the club with a
number of sides in place. These teams
look to provide youngsters from the
local area with an opportunity to
play the game in a safe and enjoyable
environment whilst helping them to
reach their full potential.
It is important for any side to be able
to produce their own talent, particularly
in the current financial climate and
this is an area that they appear to have
covered. It will certainly be exciting
to see how their young players can
develop over the coming years.
Competing in the East Anglian
Premier Cricket League their first team
put together a record of 9 wins, 3 draws
and 6 defeats from their 20 league
matches with their other 2 fixtures
ending in draws. This saw them finish
in 3rd place in the table with 352 points
on the board.
This should provide them
with the perfect platform from
which to build as they look
ahead towards their 2015
campaign. As long as they
can retain their current
gro