Buckingham Town Cricket Club
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Buckingham Town Cricket Club is a cricket
club in Buckingham
, England
. It was founded in 1870, and started playing its friendly fixtures at Bourton Road, which has been the club's home ever since.
Some notable former players include Jeetan Patel
and Roland Butcher
.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
club in Buckingham
Buckingham
Buckingham is a town situated in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. The town has a population of 11,572 ,...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It was founded in 1870, and started playing its friendly fixtures at Bourton Road, which has been the club's home ever since.
Some notable former players include Jeetan Patel
Jeetan Patel
Jeetan Shashi Patel is a New Zealand cricketer of Indian descent. Patel is a right arm off spin bowler. He plays domestic cricket for the Wellington Firebirds and has represented the New Zealand Black Caps in One Day Internationals, Twenty20 matches, and Test cricket.Patel was earmarked as a...
and Roland Butcher
Roland Butcher
Roland Butcher is a former English cricketer, who played in three Tests and three ODIs from 1980 to 1981...
.