Wiltshire County Cricket Club
| Captain: | Ed Young |
|---|---|
| Coach: | Jon Williams |
| Founded: | 1893 |
| Home ground: | No fixed address |
| Minor Counties Championship wins: | 2 |
| MCCA Knockout Trophy wins: | 0 |
| FP Trophy wins: | 0 |
| Official website: | Wiltshire County Cricket Club home |
Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire.
The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Wiltshire played List A matches occasionally from 1964 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se.
The club is peripatetic as it currently plays its matches around the county at:
Cricket probably reached Wiltshire by the end of the 17th century. The earliest known reference to cricket in the county is dated 1769.
John Major points out that "cricket did not spread evenly across whole counties" but had a tendency towards "local adoption". He mentions a match at in 1799 which was reported as "an event so novel in the county of Wiltshire". But cricket was being played by then at several other venues in the county: e.g., Calne, Devizes, Marlborough, Salisbury and Westbury.
A county organisation was formed on 24 February 1881. The present Wiltshire CCC was founded in January 1893, and joined the Minor Counties Championship for the 1897 season, competing every season since then.
Wiltshire has won the Minor Counties Championship twice, in 1902 and 1909. The Edwardian years were the club's "most successful period" and a 1903 report described the team as "the equal of any first-class county". Wiltshire's original captain, until 1920, was Audley Miller, also of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), who had played a Test match for England in South Africa in 1895–96.
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