Bedfordshire County Cricket Club
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| Captain: | James Middlebrook |
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| Founded: | 1899 |
| Home ground: | Various |
| Manager: | Paul Oakins |
| Minor Counties Championship wins: | 2 |
| MCCA Knockout Trophy wins: | 1 |
| Official website: | Bedfordshire CCC |
Bedfordshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Bedfordshire.
The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Bedfordshire played List A matches occasionally from 1967 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se.
Cricket had probably reached Bedfordshire by the end of the 17th century.
The earliest reference to cricket in the county is a match on Monday 10 August 1741 at Woburn Park between a Bedfordshire XI and a combined Northants and Huntingdonshire XI. Woburn Cricket Club under the leadership of the Duke of Bedford was on the point of becoming a well known club. Incidentally this reference is also the earliest found about cricket in Northamptonshire.
The Woburn Club became prominent in the 1740s and took part in a number of great matches against opponents such as the famous London Cricket Club.
A county organisation has been traced back to May 1847. The present Bedfordshire CCC was founded on 3 November 1899.
A Bedfordshire team competed in the very first Minor Counties Championship in 1895, with six other teams: it finished fourth. The county then missed the next four seasons before the present club rejoined the competition in 1900. It has not missed any seasons since.
Bedfordshire has won the Minor Counties Championship three times, one of them shared. It won outright in 1970 and 1972. Its most recent success was a shared title with Devon in 2004.
Bedfordshire has won the MCCA Knockout Trophy once since its inception in 1983. It won in 1999.
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