Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club Explained

Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club
League:Derbyshire County Cricket League
Founded:1824
Ground:Rutland Sports Park, Ilkeston
Title1:Div 1
Title1wins:1
Title2:Div 2
Title2wins:3
Website:Ilkeston 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

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

Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club was formed in 1829, and led a peripatetic existence for its first 100 years. 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. 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. 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. Derbyshire played the first match there later that summer, and continued to do so until 1994. After a break during the Second World War, the club was revived in 1947. 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, 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

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

Derbyshire County Cricket League
Team 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
1st XIPPPPP1PPPP111112111N111
2nd XI3C3N3N3N3N3N3N4N4N4N4N4N5N6S6S5N5N4N4NS4N3N4N
3rd XI5A7C6N6N6C6C7E8N8N8N9N9N9N9N10N7N7N7N7NS7S7S7N
4th XI9N10EC9E9CS9CS10C

Club honours

Ircc on film

See also

References

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

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

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