Shropshire County Cricket Club
| Captain: |
 Steve Leach
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|---|---|
| Coach: |
Karl Krikken
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| Founded: | 1844 |
| Home ground: | London Road, Shrewsbury |
| Capacity: | n/a |
| Minor Counties Championship wins: | n/a |
| MCCA Knockout Trophy wins: | n/a |
| FP Trophy wins: | n/a |
| Official website: | Shropshire County Cricket Club home |
Shropshire 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 Shropshire.
The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Shropshire played List A matches occasionally from 1974 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se.
The club plays at Shrewsbury and around the county at Bridgnorth, Oswestry, Shifnal, Wellington, and Whitchurch.
Cricket probably reached Shropshire in the 18th century. According to Bowen, the first reference to cricket in the county was in 1794.
A county organisation existed in either 1819 or 1829, according to Wisden. The present county club is quite new, having been formed on 28 June 1956 and taking part in the Minor Counties Championship from 1957.
Shropshire has won the Minor Counties Championship once, in 1973. This was the first time the county had even finished in the top 10 of the Minor Counties competition.
Shropshire won the MCCA Knockout Trophy, an annual competition that began in 1983, in 2010.
The following Shropshire cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game:
Also professional footballer Steve Ogrizovic played cricket for Shropshire.
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