Cricket
DURHAM COUNTY
CRICKET CLUB
Chester le Street
Co Durham, DH3 3QRr
Tel: 0870 389 1991
Fax: 0191 387 1616
INFORMATION
First game Raby Castle, 5 August 1751
Earl of Northumberland's XI v Duke of Cleveland's XI.
First game as Durham County in 1876 versus MCC
First international game - versus Australians in 1878 (Won by 71 runs)
FORMATION
Official formation
23 May 1882
MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP
Won 7 times
FIRST-CLASS COUNTY
6 December 1991
The Holland Report – on “The Future Development of League Cricket In North East England”
By Dr Grenville Holland
For over two years Dr Grenville Holland, who has for so long been associated with the successful Durham University Cricket Club, has been researching the best way forward to bring all the leagues together to form a pyramid system that would work to every ones advantage, and at the same time be seen by The England and Wales Cricket Board – who have pumped so much money in to grass root cricket – as a workable model.
The Model that has been accepted unanimously by the leagues has the following main principles:
- To get the best players in the North East of England playing against each other on a regular basis to improve standards of play across the region
- To improve competition and make it more relevant and more rewarding to those who play cricket
- To improve the standard of playing facilities
- To improve the standards and increase the number of juniors playing cricket.
The Adopted Model – Governing Principles
“All leagues and all clubs now bear a corporate responsibility towards each other and to the system that has been adopted. Leagues are no longer free and independent agents and will increasingly become inter-dependent”
“Imbalance in an individual league must not be a barrier to promotion”
The Adopted Pyramid League Structure for North East England
| Level 1 North East Premier League (12 Clubs) one up one down |
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| Level 2 | ||
| Durham Senior League One down |
Northumberland and Tyneside Senior League One down |
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| Level 3 | ||
| One up Promotion via playoff Durham County League Durham Coast League |
One up Northumberland Cricket League |
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| Level 4 | ||
| One up North East Durham League |
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| Option to migrate from Level 5 to Level 4 available | ||
| Level 5 | ||
| Darlington and District League | West Tyne League | |
| Alnwick and District League | ||
This is a revolutionary development which will have a long term bearing on the playing of league cricket in to the foreseeable future. Great thanks are due to Grenville for all of his hard work and vision, and especially to the officers of all the leagues who have come to these agreements in the face of much difficulty – which was always going to be a problem when such dynamic changes to traditional league structures were to be made
Bob Jackson – DCCC Chairman
Tom Moffat – DCCC President
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