| Risley Cricket Club | |
| League: | Derbyshire County Cricket League |
| Founded: | 1872 |
| Ground: | RCG, Risley, Derbyshire |
| Website: | Risley Cricket Club |
| Title1: | Div 5S |
| Title1wins: | 1 |
Risley Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based in Risley, Derbyshire, with a history dating back to at least 1872.[1] [2]
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]
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. The club's ground is currently south of the village, at the end of a track to a field behind the Treetops Hospice. 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).[5] 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,[6] 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) shortly before moving onto the Treetops Hospice ground in 1994.[7]
The club currently has two senior teams competing in the Derbyshire County Cricket League and a long-established junior training section that play competitive cricket in the Erewash Young Cricketers League.[8]
The Derbyshire County Cricket League competition results showing the club's positions in the league (by division) since 2014.[9] [10]
| 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.[11]
| C | Division C | |
|---|---|---|
| D | Division D | |
| E | Division E, etc. |
| 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.[12]
| Year | League | Division | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Derbyshire County Cricket League | Division 5 (South) | |
| 2009 | South Nottinghamshire Cricket League | Division D | |
| 2007 | South Nottinghamshire Cricket League | Division E | |
| 2011 | South Nottinghamshire Cricket League | Division L | |
| 2011 | Newark Club Cricket Alliance League | Division 5 | |
| 1992 | Notts Village League | Division 6 | |
| 1993 | LECA Evening League | Division 1 | |
| 1992 | LECA Evening League | Division 2 | |
| 1991 | LECA Evening League | Division 3 |
| Gerhardt Trophy | 1992, 1993 |
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