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Dorset County Cricket Club

English Cricket Club

Summary

English Cricket Club

Field	Value
name	Dorset County Cricket Club
image	[[Image:DorsetCCCLogo.svg	150px]]
coach	England Paul Lawrence
captain	England Luke Webb
founded	1896
ground	Various
title1	FP Trophy
title1wins	0
website	Dorset Cricket home

Dorset County Cricket Club is one of twenty National county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Dorset.

The team is currently a member of the National Counties Cricket Association Championship Western Division 2 and plays in the National Counties Cricket Association Knockout Trophy and the NCCA T20 Competition. Dorset played List A matches occasionally from 1968 until 2004 but is not classified as a List A team per se.

The club is currently without a permanent ground so it uses several club grounds inside the historic county boundaries, where they play their home matches.

In 2023, the County Cricket Club became part of Cricket Dorset Ltd and amalgamated with the Dorset Cricket Board and other Dorset cricket entities.

Honours

**Minor Counties Championship (2) - **2000, 2010
**MCCA Knockout Trophy (2) - **1988, 2025
**Gillette/NatWest/C&G (0) - **

Earliest cricket

An advertisement in the Sherborne Mercury dated Tuesday 9 May 1738 is the earliest reference for cricket in Dorset. Twelve Dorchester men at Ridgway Races challenged twelve men from elsewhere to play them at cricket for the prize of twelve pairs of gloves valued at a shilling a pair.

Origin of club

According to Wisden there was county organisation in existence in either 1862 or 1871. The present Dorset CCC was founded on 5 February 1896 and first entered the Minor Counties Championship in 1902.

Club history

Dorset has won the Minor Counties Championship twice, in 2000 and 2010.

Dorset has won the MCCA Knockout Trophy twice since its inception in 1983. It won in 1988 and 2025.

Notable players

:See List of Dorset CCC players and :Category:Dorset cricketers The following Dorset cricketers have also had notable careers at first-class level:

Jimmy Adams
William Andrew
Peter Badham
John Baker
Tom Barber
Patrick Barrow
Leslie Bean
Rayner Blitz
Bertie Bolton
Thomas Bowley
Derek Bridge
Charles Brutton
Paul Carey
Box Case
Edgar Chester-Master
John Claughton
Alan Coleman
Robert Coombs
Geoff Courtenay
Nigel Cowley
Len Creese
Bradley Currie
Scott Currie
Ray Dovey
Joseph Eckland
Charles Fawcus
Rob Ferley
Lloyd Ferreira
Douglas Freeman
Edward Freeman
Paul Garlick
Archie Gibson
Harold Gimblett
John Gordon
James Graham-Brown
Hubert Greenhill
Jon Hardy
Percy Hardy
Ælfric Harrison
Geoffrey Hebden
Bob Herman
Andrew Hodgson
Philip Hope
William Hounsell
Wilf Hughes
Eddie Jack
William Jephson
Gilbert Jessop
Charles Johnston
Chris Jones
Steffan Jones
Matthew Keech
Andrew Kennedy
Walter Lancashire
Jack Leach
Richard Lewis
Jacob Lintott
Steve Malone
Robert Manser
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Walter McBride
Cuan McCarthy
Lewis McManus
Richard Merriman
Jigar Naik
Geoffrey Ogilvy
Felix Organ
Owen Parkin
David Payne
Vyvian Pike
Tom Prest
Colin Roper
Lee Savident
Richard Scott
Steven Selwood
Andrew Sexton
Derek Shackleton
Julian Shackleton
Roger Sillence
Harold Stephenson
Reginald Swalwell
David Taylor
Malcolm Taylor
Max Waller
John Watson
Rev Bourne Webb
Tom Webley
Alan Willows
George Woodhouse
Larry Worrell

Grounds

The club currently plays its home matches at several venues during the season which include:

Wimborne CC
Dorchester CC

It formerly played at Dean Park Cricket Ground in Bournemouth, which is historically part of neighbouring Hampshire and was once used as a home venue by Hampshire County Cricket Club and Sherborne School Cricket Ground in Sherborne.

References

;General

Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
Tony Percival, Dorset Cricketers, ACS Publications, 2017
E W Swanton (editor), Barclays World of Cricket, Guild, 1986
Playfair Cricket Annual – various editions
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack – various editions

References

"List A events played by Dorset". CricketArchive.

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