Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England. The club has a history dating back to 1824.[1][2]
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| League | Derbyshire County Cricket League |
|---|---|
| Team information | |
| Founded | 1824 |
| Home ground | Rutland Sports Park, Ilkeston |
| History | |
| Div 1 wins | 1 |
| Div 2 wins | 3 |
| Official website | Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club |
Ground
editIlkeston Rutland's main ground is the Rutland Sports Park, on Oakwell Drive in Ilkeston which includes a two lane, all-weather net facility. Their second ground is at The Stute on Hallam Field Road.[3] The 1st and 2nd XI teams use the Rutland Sports Park pitch, rated by the DCCL as a Grade A+ ground, and the 3rd and 4th XI use the pitch on The Stute, rated as a Grade B ground.[4] Their main ground (Rutland Sports Park) has a proud history of annually hosting 1st Class recreation matches between 1925 – 1994.[5] In 1977, the ground hosted Derbyshire's Gillette Cup quarter-final tie against a Somerset side which included Ian Botham, Viv Richards and Joel Garner, when on an extremely hot day, 11,000 spectators packed into the ground.[6]
History
editIlkeston Rutland Cricket Club was formed in 1829, and led a peripatetic existence for its first 100 years.[2] The earliest known record of a cricket ground for Ilkeston was a field near to Lawn Cottage, Pimlico, donated by the Duke of Rutland. A few years later a ground to the south of St. Mary's churchyard was made available, known as the Old Cricket Ground.[7][8] By 1876, the club relocated to a new ground on land also loaned by the Duke of Rutland on the understanding that the local authority would develop it into a recreation ground. However, the ground quality at this stage was so poor that turf had to be lifted and transported from the Old Cricket Ground.[7] Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club was one of the founder members of the Derbyshire League in 1890. The club then joined the Ilkeston & District League, and won in 1909.[2] In 1914 George V visited Ilkeston and the land was finally passed to the authority and the ground extended.[9] The cricket ground was prepared to county match standards and officially opened as the Rutland Recreation Ground on Wednesday 6 May 1925.[10] Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club tendered to use the ground and started to use it the following year.[2] Derbyshire played the first match there later that summer, and continued to do so until 1994.[5] After a break during the Second World War, the club was revived in 1947.[2] By 1978 the club started off the club's junior section.[11] In 1982, the club amalgamated with the Ilkeston Casuals, winning the O J Jackson Cup the same year,[2] and in 2017, the club amalgamated with the Stanton Elks, originally called the Stanton & Awsworth Elks Cricket Club.[12]
The Club currently has 4 senior teams competing in the Derbyshire County Cricket League, a women's softball team in the East Midlands Women's Cricket League [13][14] and a long established and very successful junior training section that play competitive cricket in the Erewash Young Cricketers League.[15]
Club performance
editThe Derbyshire County Cricket League competition results showing the club's positions in the league (by Division) since 2002.[16]
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Key Gold Champions Red Relegated Grey League suspended -
cont... P ECB Premier League 1 Division 1 2 Division 2 3 Division 3, etc. -
cont... N North S South E East C Central
| Team | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st XI | P | P | P | P | P | 1 | P | P | P | P | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1N | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2nd XI | 3C | 3N | 3N | 3N | 3N | 3N | 3N | 4N | 4N | 4N | 4N | 4N | 5N | 6S | 6S | 5N | 5N | 4N | 4NS | 4N | 3N | 4N |
| 3rd XI | 5A | 7C | 6N | 6N | 6C | 6C | 7E | 8N | 8N | 8N | 9N | 9N | 9N | 9N | 10N | 7N | 7N | 7N | 7NS | 7S | 7S | 7N |
| 4th XI | 9N | 10EC | 9E | 9CS | 9CS | 10C | ||||||||||||||||
Club honours
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Derbyshire County Cricket League Division 1 Champions 1994 Division 2 Champions 1982, 1993, 2017 Division 5 Champions 2001,[a] 2018[b] Division 7 Champions 1988 -
DCCL – Cup Competitions Winners Derbyshire Cup 1994 Winners Derbyshire Plate Final 1994 -
Mayor of Derby Charity Cup Competitions Winners OJ Jackson Cup 1982, 1994, 2018 Winners Butterley Cup 2017
Ircc on film
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Blasdale, Frank (1979). Story of Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club. Derbyshire: Moorley's Print & Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-8607-1075-2.
- ^ a b c d e f Derbyshire Marston's Pedigree County Cricket League Centenary Yearbook 2019. Derbyshire: DCCL. 2019. p. 108 & 164.
- ^ "IRCC About Us: Playing Facilities". ircc.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "DCCL 2020 League Handbook". derbyscountylge.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Derbyshire First-Class Matches played on Rutland Recreation Ground". heritage.derbyshireccc.com. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Rutland Recreation Ground crowd capacity". cricket.derbyshireccc.com. 28 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ a b "The cricket ground and chapel". www.oldilkeston.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "A helpful map: The Old Cricket Ground". www.oldilkeston.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Rutland Recreation Ground". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Ilkeston – Rutland Sports Park w/e 12 March 2006". www.ilkcam.com. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Remembering Ilkeston Rutland's finest: Malc Wilson: 18th February 2016". www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "More Sport at the Stute: Cricket – Stanton Elks". www.ilkestonrugby.com. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "East Midlands Women's Cricket League website". findglocal.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "East Midlands Women's Cricket League play-cricket website". eastmidlandswomenslge.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "Erewash Young Cricketers League". eycl.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "DCCL Competition results". Derbyshire Cricket League. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
Further reading
edit- Blasdale, Frank. 1979 "Story of Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club", Moorley's Print & Publishing (978-0-8607-1075-2)