Cheshire County Cricket Club
| Captain: |
 Lee Dixon
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|---|---|
| Coach: |
Stewart MacLeod
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| Founded: | 1908 |
| Home ground: | Ellerman Lines Cricket Ground |
| MCCC wins: | 5 |
| MCCAT wins: | 3 |
| FP Trophy wins: | 1 |
| Official website: | Cheshire County Cricket Club |
Cheshire 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 Cheshire.
The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Cheshire played List A matches occasionally until 2004 but is not classified as a List A team per se. The club does not have a base but plays matches around the county at Boughton Hall in Chester, Nantwich, New Brighton, Grappenhall Tattenhall and at Moss Lane, Alderley Edge.
Cricket may not have reached Cheshire until the 18th century. The earliest reference to the game being played there is in 1781. This was a match played on Brinnington Moor in August 1781 which was reported in the Manchester Journal on 1 September 1781.
According to Wisden there was a county organisation as early as 1819. The present club was founded on 29 September 1908 and entered the Minor Counties Championship for the first time the following year, 1909.
Cheshire played its first List A match against Surrey on 6 May 1964, in the first round of the Gillette Cup at the Ellerman Lines Cricket Ground, Hoylake. Cheshire has won the Minor Counties Championship five times, and twice shared the title. It won the title outright in 1967, 1985, 1988, 2007 and 2013. It shared the accolade in 2001 with Lincolnshire and in 2005 with Suffolk.
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