Devon County Cricket Club
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| One-day captain: | Rob Woodman |
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| Coach: | Keith Donohue |
| Bowling coach: | Tim Ward |
| Colors: | Black, yellow and Blue bands |
| Founded: | 1899 |
| Home ground: | Various |
| Minor Counties Championship wins: | 6 |
| MCCA Knockout Trophy wins: | 5 |
| Official website: | Devon CCC |
Devon 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 Devon.
The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Devon played List A matches occasionally from 1969 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se.
The Western Division of the Minor Counties Championship is made up of ten teams with each team playing six three-day fixtures over the course of the season, completing home and away games against each side over a three-year cycle. Devon also plays in the 50 over a side MCCA Knock Out Trophy. The county has an outstanding record in both the Championship and the one day knockout trophy.
The Minor Counties Championship is based on matches of two innings per side over three days. Counties are arranged into two geographical groups of ten –Eastern and Western divisions -and teams plays three home and three away matches against other sides within their division; each year, fixture list are altered so that over a three-year cycle each sides plays the other teams in their division. At the end of the season the team with the best record from the Eastern Division plays the winner of the Western Division for the Minor Counties Championship, over four days.
The MCCA Trophy is a 50 over a side competition in which all teams initially play in a different league of five sides, organized geographically, and the winner and runner up in each of the four groups play in a series of knockout stages, culminating in a final. often played at Lord’s.
The earliest reference to cricket in the county dates from the 1790s. An embryo county organisation existed in the 1820s and a County club was initially founded in 1861. It went out of existence briefly in 1897 but was re-formed on 26 November 1899, and joined the Minor Counties’ Championship in 1901. At present twenty Minor Counties participate in two competitions.
Devon was the scene of a county club’s foundation on 18 August 1875, but not its own! Somerset County Cricket Club was set up by some Somerset Gentlemen players at a meeting at Sidmouth CC, immediately after a match against the Gentlemen of Devon.
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