Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club

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Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club
Rutland Sports Park (2022)
Rutland Sports Park (2022)
LeagueDerbyshire County Cricket League
Team information
Founded1824
Home groundRutland Sports Park, Ilkeston
History
Div 1 wins1
Div 2 wins3
Official websiteIlkeston Rutland Cricket Club

Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England. The club has a history dating back to 1824.[1][2]

Ground[edit]

Ilkeston Rutland's main ground is the Rutland Sports Park, on Oakwell Drive in Ilkeston which includes a two lane, all-weather net facility. Their second ground is at The Stute on Hallam Field Road.[3] The 1st and 2nd XI teams use the Rutland Sports Park pitch, rated by the DCCL as a Grade A+ ground, and the 3rd and 4th XI use the pitch on The Stute, rated as a Grade B ground.[4] Their main ground (Rutland Sports Park) has a proud history of annually hosting 1st Class recreation matches between 1925 – 1994.[5] In 1977, the ground hosted Derbyshire's Gillette Cup quarter-final tie against a Somerset side which included Ian Botham, Viv Richards and Joel Garner, when on an extremely hot day, 11,000 spectators packed into the ground.[6]

History[edit]

Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club was formed in 1829, and led a peripatetic existence for its first 100 years.[2] The earliest known record of a cricket ground for Ilkeston was a field near to Lawn Cottage, Pimlico, donated by the Duke of Rutland. A few years later a ground to the south of St. Mary's churchyard was made available, known as the Old Cricket Ground.[7][8] By 1876, the club relocated to a new ground on land also loaned by the Duke of Rutland on the understanding that the local authority would develop it into a recreation ground. However, the ground quality at this stage was so poor that turf had to be lifted and transported from the Old Cricket Ground.[7] Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club was one of the founder members of the Derbyshire League in 1890. The club then joined the Ilkeston & District League, and won in 1909.[2] In 1914 George V visited Ilkeston and the land was finally passed to the authority and the ground extended.[9] The cricket ground was prepared to county match standards and officially opened as the Rutland Recreation Ground on Wednesday 6 May 1925.[10] Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club tendered to use the ground and started to use it the following year.[2] Derbyshire played the first match there later that summer, and continued to do so until 1994.[5] After a break during the Second World War, the club was revived in 1947.[2] By 1978 the club started off the club's junior section.[11] In 1982, the club amalgamated with the Ilkeston Casuals, winning the O J Jackson Cup the same year,[2] and in 2017, the club amalgamated with the Stanton Elks, originally called the Stanton & Awsworth Elks Cricket Club.[12]

The Club currently has 4 senior teams competing in the Derbyshire County Cricket League, a women's softball team in the East Midlands Women's Cricket League [13][14] and a long established and very successful junior training section that play competitive cricket in the Erewash Young Cricketers League.[15]

Club performance[edit]

The Derbyshire County Cricket League competition results showing the club's positions in the league (by Division) since 2002.[16]

  • Key
    Gold Champions
    Red Relegated
    Grey League suspended
  • cont...
    P ECB Premier League
    1 Division 1
    2 Division 2
    3 Division 3, etc.
  • cont...
    N North
    S South
    E East
    C Central
Derbyshire County Cricket League
Team 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
1st XI P P P P P 1 P P P P 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1N 1 1 1
2nd XI 3C 3N 3N 3N 3N 3N 3N 4N 4N 4N 4N 4N 5N 6S 6S 5N 5N 4N 4NS 4N 3N 4N
3rd XI 5A 7C 6N 6N 6C 6C 7E 8N 8N 8N 9N 9N 9N 9N 10N 7N 7N 7N 7NS 7S 7S 7N
4th XI 9N 10EC 9E 9CS 9CS 10C

Club honours[edit]

  • Derbyshire County Cricket League
    Division 1 Champions 1994
    Division 2 Champions 1982, 1993, 2017
    Division 5 Champions 2001,[a] 2018[b]
    Division 7 Champions 1988
  • DCCL – Cup Competitions
    Winners Derbyshire Cup 1994
    Winners Derbyshire Plate Final 1994
  • Mayor of Derby Charity Cup Competitions
    Winners OJ Jackson Cup 1982, 1994, 2018
    Winners Butterley Cup 2017
  1. ^ Division 5A.
  2. ^ Division 5 (North).

Ircc on film[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Blasdale, Frank (1979). Story of Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club. Derbyshire: Moorley's Print & Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-8607-1075-2.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Derbyshire Marston's Pedigree County Cricket League Centenary Yearbook 2019. Derbyshire: DCCL. 2019. p. 108 & 164.
  3. ^ "IRCC About Us: Playing Facilities". ircc.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  4. ^ "DCCL 2020 League Handbook". derbyscountylge.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Derbyshire First-Class Matches played on Rutland Recreation Ground". heritage.derbyshireccc.com. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Rutland Recreation Ground crowd capacity". cricket.derbyshireccc.com. 28 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  7. ^ a b "The cricket ground and chapel". www.oldilkeston.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  8. ^ "A helpful map: The Old Cricket Ground". www.oldilkeston.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Rutland Recreation Ground". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Ilkeston – Rutland Sports Park w/e 12 March 2006". www.ilkcam.com. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Remembering Ilkeston Rutland's finest: Malc Wilson: 18th February 2016". www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  12. ^ "More Sport at the Stute: Cricket – Stanton Elks". www.ilkestonrugby.com. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  13. ^ "East Midlands Women's Cricket League website". findglocal.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  14. ^ "East Midlands Women's Cricket League play-cricket website". eastmidlandswomenslge.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  15. ^ "Erewash Young Cricketers League". eycl.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  16. ^ "DCCL Competition results". Derbyshire Cricket League. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

Further reading[edit]

  • Blasdale, Frank. 1979 "Story of Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club", Moorley's Print & Publishing (978-0-8607-1075-2)

External links[edit]

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