Risley Cricket Club

Risley Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based in Risley, Derbyshire, with a history dating back to at least 1872.[1][2]

Risley Cricket Club
Risley Cricket Club (2022)
Risley Cricket Club (2022)
LeagueDerbyshire County Cricket League
Team information
Founded1872
Home groundRCG, Risley, Derbyshire
History
Div 5S wins1
Official websiteRisley Cricket Club

Ground

The club's ground and pavilion 'The Club House' is located 200m up the track, off the Derby Road, behind Treetops Hospice on the south side of Risley, Derbyshire[3] and the ground is rated by the DCCL as a Grade A ground.[4]

History

It is not known when the club was established, but the earliest known record of cricket associated with the village of Risley is a reference in the Nottingham Journal on 12 September 1872, reporting a match between Risley and Sandiacre.[2] The club's ground is currently south of the village, at the end of a track to a field behind the Treetops Hospice.[3] Before this, the club led a peripatetic existence. The earliest known location for the club was a field next to All Saints' church, in the 1920s. By the 1930s, games took place behind the Blue Ball pub (now The Risley Park).[1] After the Second World War, a Rev Hughes arranged for matches to be played on the Risley Hall Approved School ground, until the mid-1970s when they then moved onto a pitch on the Friesland School grounds. Between 1984 and 1988, home games were played at the former Draycott CC Hopwell Road ground, in Draycott,[5] before returning to the Risley Hall School in the late-1980s. In the early 1990s the 1st XI team finished top of the LECA Evening League's Division 3, 2 and 1 in successive years (1991–93)[2] shortly before moving onto the Treetops Hospice ground in 1994.[1]

The club currently has two senior teams competing in the Derbyshire County Cricket League[3] and a long-established junior training section that play competitive cricket in the Erewash Young Cricketers League.[6]

Club performance

The Derbyshire County Cricket League competition results showing the club's positions in the league (by division) since 2014.[1][7]

Key
Gold Champions
Red Relegated
Grey League Suspended
Key (cont.)
3 Division 3
4 Division 4
5 Division 5, etc.
Key (cont.)
N North
S South
C Central
Derbyshire County Cricket League
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
1st XI 5S 5S 5S 4S 4N 3S 3SN 3S 3S 3S
2nd XI 8S 9S 9S 9N 8N 8N 9CS 8S 8S 8S

The South Nottinghamshire Cricket League competition results showing the club's position (by Division) between 2005 and 2013.[8]

Key
C Division C
D Division D
E Division E, etc.
South Nottinghamshire Cricket League
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
1st XI D E E D D D D C D
2nd XI J K K K K K L K K

The Newark Club Cricket Alliance Sunday League competition results showing the club's position (by Division) between 2010 and 2013.[9]

Key
3 Division 3
4 Division 4
5 Division 5, etc.
Newark Club Cricket Alliance
2010 2011 2012 2013
Sunday 1st XI 6 5 4 3

Club Honours
Championships won by Risley Cricket Club
Year League Division
2016 Derbyshire County Cricket LeagueDivision 5 (South)
2009 South Nottinghamshire Cricket LeagueDivision D
2007 South Nottinghamshire Cricket LeagueDivision E
2011 South Nottinghamshire Cricket LeagueDivision L
2011 Newark Club Cricket Alliance LeagueDivision 5
1992 Notts Village LeagueDivision 6
1993 LECA Evening LeagueDivision 1
1992 LECA Evening LeagueDivision 2
1991 LECA Evening LeagueDivision 3
LECA - Cup Competition Trophies
Gerhardt Trophy 1992, 1993

    See also

    References
    1. Derbyshire Marston's Pedigree County Cricket League Centenary Yearbook. Derbyshire: DCCL. 2019. p. 118 & 174.
    2. Breakwell, Keith (1994). The History of Cricket in Long Eaton, Sandiacre & Sawley. ISBN 978-0-9521-4371-0.
    3. "Risley CC homepage". risley.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
    4. "DCCL 2020 League Handbook". derbyscountylge.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
    5. Lacey, Simon; Higginbottom, Chris; Whittington, Tom (2004). Derbyshire Cricket Grounds A Post-War Survey. Derbyshire: Simon Lacey. ISBN 0-9547056-0-2.
    6. "Erewash Young Cricketers League". eycl.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
    7. "DCCL Competition results". Derbyshire Cricket League. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
    8. "SNCL Competition results". South Nottinghamshire Cricket League. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
    9. "NCCA Competition results". Newark Club Cricket Alliance League. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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