Jersey Post
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Jersey Post
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stablished in the late
eighties our club is based
in Jersey in the Channel
Islands. Initially, we were
a social club side playing other social
clubs each week. After a number
of years without losing a game we
decided to approach the Jersey Cricket
Association to enter the evening league
in the 3rd Division.
Winning Div 3 in 1999 we progressed
quickly to the evening 1st division by
also winning the 2nd Div in 2001
picking up some very talented
players along the way. When
joining the evening league
we knew we would be
likely to have various
sponsors over the
coming years and
decided
that
we should call
our club “The
Armchair
Cricket Club”
to ensure we
didn’t have to
continuously
change
the
bank account
mandate.
Over the
years in the
evening league
we have been
known as “Air
Conditioning
Jersey” “Optimus”
and currently “Jersey
Post”.
During this period
we also joined the Indoor
Cricket league. Due to our
players now all being a good
standard the league the Committee
decided we should enter directly into
Div 1. Our team in the indoor league was
known as “Abbey International” and
“Optimus” as “Abbey International” we
won Division One six times and were
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runners up once, as “Optimus” we won
the league once.
Around 2005 we joined the Weekend
Premier leagues where we won the
Premiership twice as “Romerils”. We
also won the Knock-out Cup twice (Once
as “Romerils” and once as “Optimus”.
We also won the Channel Islands Club
Championship in 2009 as “Optimus”.
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s
indicated
above we were running teams in all
forms of cricket over a number of
years including a school team. Each
Premiership team were responsible
for coaching a school team which then
played in a school league under the
Premiership name and acted as a feed
into the Premiership club.
After winning the Channel Islands
Championship in 2009 a considerable
amount of our Premiership players
decided to call it a day and so we were
left with no option but to withdraw
from the Premiership and 1st Division
of the weekend league.
We still had a few players that
were interested in playing
Evening League and Indoor
cricket but were not at
Division 1 standard.
We decided therefore
to request a drop
down to Division
3 to ensure we
could still be
competitive
with
the
intention
of
regrouping
over a number
of years with
the possibility
of re-entering
the weekend
l e a g u e
sometime
in
the future. We
currently
run
Evening League
and Indoor League
teams both in the
3rd Div.
Our players also
picked up numerous
individual awards from
the Jersey Cricket Board over
that period. Ryan Driver (an exprofessional cricketer who played for
Worcestershire and Lancaster) played
for and captained our Premiership
team as well as the Jersey Island Cricket
Team.