Thames Valley Cricket League
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The Thames Valley Cricket League is a mostly amateur cricket league, catering to clubs geographically to the west of London, with clubs coming from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire and Surrey, though most are from Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. The league, once the top level of amateur cricket in the area, has become a feeder league for the Home Counties Premier Cricket League
Home Counties Premier Cricket League
The Home Counties Premier Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in the Home Counties of England, and since 2000 has been a designated ECB Premier League...

 since the creation of the Premier League, however the standard of the league is considered to be high, evidenced by the proliferation of Thames Valley League sides in the Premier Leagues, as well as the large uptake of expansion places in the league.

Format

The league is played on Saturday afternoons, and the matches are 100 overs in length. The side batting first can bat for a maximum of 52 overs, and the chasing team can use all overs not used by them. Points are awarded as follows:
  • 25 points for a win batting first
  • 20 points for a win batting second
  • 2 points for scoring 100 runs, and 2 more for every 25 runs after that up to 200. In the second innings this is 1 point.
  • 1 point for taking 2 wickets, up to a maximum of 5 points for bowling the opposition out.
  • 7 points for a rained-off match
  • 15 points for a tie


Note that no bonus points are awarded to the winning team.

Winners

Division 1
YearChampions
2010 Burnhamv Cricket Club
2009 Harefield Cricket Club
2008 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
2007 Thatcham Town Cricket Club
2006 Kew Cricket Club
Kew Cricket Club
The earliest reference to Kew Cricket Club in Kew, South West London, England is in 1737. There are four Saturday League teams, a Sunday League team and a Sunday friendly team. Kew Cricket Club operates a thriving Colts section, fielding league teams at the U17, U15, U13 and U11 levels.The...

2005 Wokingham Cricket Club
2004 North Maidenhead Cricket Club
2003 NPL Teddington Cricket Club
2002 Gerrards Cross Cricket Club
2001 Farnham Royal Cricket Club
2000 Burnham Cricket Club
1999 High Wycombe Cricket Club
1998 Hounslow Cricket Club
1997 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1996 Basingstoke Cricket Club
1995 Ickenham Cricket Club
1994 Finchampstead Cricket Club
1993 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1992 Reading Cricket Club
1991 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1990 Boyne Hill Cricket Club
1989 Basingstoke Cricket Club
1988 Basingstoke Cricket Club
1987 High Wycombe Cricket Club
1986 Maidenhead & Bray Cricket Club
1985 Basingstoke Cricket Club
1984 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1983 Beaconsfield Cricket Club
1982 Uxbridge Cricket Club
Uxbridge Cricket Club
Uxbridge Cricket Club is a cricket club based in Uxbridge, Middlesex. Uxbridge CC is a member of the Middlesex County Cricket League which is a designated ECB Premier League.-History:...

1981 Reading Cricket Club
1980 Ickenham Cricket Club
1979 Hounslow Cricket Club
1978 High Wycombe Cricket Club
1977 Reading Cricket Club
1976 Maidenhead & Bray Cricket Club
1975 Reading Cricket Club
1974 Reading Cricket Club
1973 Gerrards Cross Cricket Club
1972 Basingstoke Cricket Club

Member Clubs

ClubNumber of Teams
Aldershot Cricket Club  3
Amersham Cricket Club  3
Bagshot Cricket Club  3
Barnes Cricket Club  1
Basingstoke Cricket Club  3
Beaconsfield Cricket Club  3
Boyne Hill Cricket Club  3
Bracknell Cricket Club  2
British Airways Cricket Club  4
Burnham Cricket Club  3
Chalfont St. Peter Cricket Club  3
Chenies & Latimer Cricket Club  2
Chesham Cricket Club
Chesham cricket club
Chesham Cricket Club is a cricket club, based in Chesham, which plays in the Thames Valley Cricket League. The club enters 4 sides in the Thames Valley League, with the first team playing in Division 2B, the 2nds in 4A, the 3rds in 6A and the 4th team in 8B...

 
4
Chiswick & Latymer Cricket Club  4
Cookham Dean Cricket Club  3
Cove Cricket Club  5
Datchet Cricket Club  4
Eversley Cricket Club  4
Falkland Cricket Club  3
Farnham Common Cricket Club  3
Farnham Royal Cricket Club  2
Finchampstead Cricket Club  5
Fleet Cricket Club  3
Gerrards Cross Cricket Club  1
Harefield Cricket Club  3
Hayes Cricket Club  4
Henley Cricket Club  3
High Wycombe Cricket Club  3
Hillingdon Manor Cricket Club  3
Hurst Cricket Club  2
Kew Cricket Club
Kew Cricket Club
The earliest reference to Kew Cricket Club in Kew, South West London, England is in 1737. There are four Saturday League teams, a Sunday League team and a Sunday friendly team. Kew Cricket Club operates a thriving Colts section, fielding league teams at the U17, U15, U13 and U11 levels.The...

 
4
Kidmore End Cricket Club  3
Maidenhead and Bray Cricket Club  4
Marlow Cricket Club  3
Marlow Park Cricket Club  1
Newbury Cricket Club  2
North Maidenhead Cricket Club  3
NPL Teddington Cricket Club  4
Odiham & Greywell Cricket Club  2
Old Merchant Taylors Cricket Club  3
Princes Risborough Cricket Club  2
Purley on Thames Cricket Club  2
Reading Cricket Club  3
Royal Ascot Cricket Club  4
Ruislip Cricket Club  2
Slough Cricket Club  4
Sonning Cricket Club  2
Stoke Green Cricket Club  2
Teddington Town Cricket Club  2
Thatcham Town Cricket Club  4
Theale & Tilehurst Cricket Club  2
Tring Park Cricket Club  2
Windsor Cricket Club  5
Wokingham Cricket Club  4
Wooburn Narkovians Cricket Club  2
Yateley Cricket Club 3

Sources

  • http://www.tvlcricket.com/
  • http://thamesvalleycl.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp
  • Thames Valley Cricket League Handbook
  • http://www.homecountiescricket.com/constitution.asp
  • http://www.christopher-chandler.com/BNHCC/
  • http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/sport/cricket/s/2077903_thames_valley_cricket_league_roundup
  • http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/cricket/s/2075987_flynns_on_fire_in_thames_valley_cricket_league
  • http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/ENG/2011_ENG_Thames_Valley_Cricket_League_Division_One_2011.html
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