Minor Counties Cricket Championship Totally Explained

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The Minor Counties Cricket Championship is a season-long competition in England that's competed for by those county cricket clubs that don't have first-class status. The competition was incepted in 1895 and, apart from the two World War periods, has been contested annually ever since. Four clubs which used to play in the Minor Counties Championship have been granted first-class status – Worcestershire in 1899; Northamptonshire in 1905; Glamorgan in 1921 and Durham in 1992.
   Until 1959, when the Second XI Championship was founded, most second XIs of the first-class counties used to contest the Minor Counties. A few continued to do so and the last to withdraw was Somerset 2nd XI after the 1987 season.
   Since 1983, the clubs have been split into an Eastern and a Western Division. The winners of the two divisions play each other in a match at the end of the season to determine which will be the Champions.
   At present, there are twenty clubs involved. Nineteen represent English counties and the other is a Wales team that represents all the Welsh counties except Glamorgan. For details, see Minor counties of English cricket.

List of Minor Counties Champions

1895 Durham, Norfolk, Worcestershire (shared title)
1896 Worcestershire
1897 Worcestershire
1898 Worcestershire
1899 Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (shared title)
1900 Durham, Glamorgan, Northamptonshire (shared title)
1901 Durham
1902 Wiltshire
1903 Northamptonshire
1904 Northamptonshire
1905 Norfolk
1906 Staffordshire
1907 Lancashire II
1908 Staffordshire
1909 Wiltshire
1910 Norfolk
1911 Staffordshire
1912 in abeyance
1913 Norfolk
1914 undecided
1915 - 1919 not contested
1920 Staffordshire
1921 Staffordshire
1922 Buckinghamshire
1923 Buckinghamshire
1924 Berkshire
1925 Buckinghamshire
1926 Durham
1927 Staffordshire
1928 Berkshire
1929 Oxfordshire
1930 Durham
1931 Leicestershire II
1932 Buckinghamshire
1933 undecided
1934 Lancashire II
1935 Middlesex II
1936 Hertfordshire
1937 Lancashire II
1938 Buckinghamshire
1939 Surrey II
1940 - 1945 not contested
1946 Suffolk
1947 Yorkshire II
1948 Lancashire II
1949 Lancashire II
1950 Surrey II
1951 Kent II
1952 Buckinghamshire
1953 Berkshire
1954 Surrey II
1955 Surrey II
1956 Kent II
1957 Yorkshire II
1958 Yorkshire II
1959 Warwickshire II
1960 Lancashire II
1961 Somerset II
1962 Warwickshire II
1963 Cambridgeshire
1964 Lancashire II
1965 Somerset II
1966 Lincolnshire
1967 Cheshire
1968 Yorkshire II
1969 Buckinghamshire
1970 Bedfordshire
1971 Yorkshire II
1972 Bedfordshire
1973 Shropshire
1974 Oxfordshire
1975 Hertfordshire
1976 Durham
1977 Suffolk
1978 Devon
1979 Suffolk
1980 Durham
1981 Durham
1982 Oxfordshire
1983 Hertfordshire
1984 Durham
1985 Cheshire
1986 Cumberland
1987 Buckinghamshire
1988 Cheshire
1989 Oxfordshire
1990 Hertfordshire
1991 Staffordshire
1992 Staffordshire
1993 Staffordshire
1994 Devon
1995 Devon
1996 Devon
1997 Devon
1998 Staffordshire
1999 Cumberland
2000 Dorset
2001 Cheshire, Lincolnshire (shared title)
2002 Herefordshire, Norfolk (shared title)
2003 Lincolnshire
2004 Bedfordshire, Devon (shared title)
2005 Cheshire, Suffolk (shared title)
2006 Devon
2007 Cheshire

External sources

Minor Counties Cricket Association Official Site

General sources

Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970

Playfair Cricket Annual 2007

Wisden Cricketers Almanack 2007Further Information

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