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Since the Northamptonshire Cricket League was designated an ECB Premier League in 1999, [7] Finedon Dolben is one of only three cricket clubs (Finedon Dolben, Old Northamptonians and Peterborough Town) to have held a constant presence in the highest level of competition for recreational club cricket in Northamptonshire, with eleven ECB ...
The Hevey Building Supplies Northamptonshire Cricket League [1] is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Northamptonshire, England, and since 1999 has been a designated ECB Premier League. [2] The league headquarters is based in Wellingborough. [3]
The club became members of the Northampton Minor League playing at under 17 level, and when the boys were too old for youth football the club joined the Town League in 1950, playing at Abington Park. In 1960 the Old Northamptonians association invited the club to become one of their sports sections, thus Chenecks became ON Chenecks and ...
David Harry Wigley (born 26 October 1981, [1] Bradford, Yorkshire, England) is an English former first-class cricketer.He latterly played for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, his third county after previously playing for Yorkshire [1] and then Worcestershire, until his early retirement from the game in 2010.
He retired in 1979, but continued to play for the Old Northamptonians. [2] In his autobiography, David Gower described Hodgson as a "big tall Geordie". [3] He died suddenly on 6 October 2016. [2] Speaking after the announcement of his death, Allan Lamb said of Hodgson that "He was a great man.
Woburn Cricket Club under the leadership of the Duke of Bedford was on the point of becoming a well known club. On Tuesday 18 August, a match played on the Cow Meadow near Northampton between two teams of amateurs from Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire is the earliest known instance of cricket being played in Northamptonshire county.
These leagues and clubs are the top echelons of the amateur, recreational game of cricket in England and Wales. There are also non-ECB-affiliated leagues such as the Lancashire League and the Central Lancashire League , as their standards of cricket also represent the highest standards in the English (and Welsh) non- first-class game.
The new stadium was still under construction when the 1994–95 season began, and so the club began that season still at the County Ground. The Cobblers played their last game there on 12 October 1994 (a 1–0 league defeat to Mansfield Town ), [ 2 ] and then moved to Sixfields , a four-sided stadium more suitable for football.