West Bromwich Dartmouth Cricket Club
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West Bromwich Dartmouth Cricket Club is an amateur cricket
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 West Bromwich
West Bromwich
West Bromwich is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands, England. It is north west of Birmingham lying on the A41 London-to-Birkenhead road. West Bromwich is part of the Black Country...

, West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...

, England
England
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. Founded in 1834, it is a founder member of the
Birmingham & District Cricket league
Birmingham and District Premier League
The Birmingham and District Cricket League is the oldest club cricket league in the world, formed in 1888. Arguably the strongest club competition in the country, it was also the first ECB Premier League, being designated such in 1998.- Geography :...

. Its First XI currently plays in the Premier Division, and its Second XI in the First Division. The Third XI play in the West Midland Third XI Club Cricket Championship Premier Division.

The unusual name "Dartmouth" comes from the original ground residing in the estate of the Earl of Dartmouth
Earl of Dartmouth
Earl of Dartmouth is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for William Legge, 2nd Baron Dartmouth. The Legge family descended from Edward Legge, Vice-President of Munster. His eldest son William Legge was a Royalist army officer and close associate of Prince Rupert of the...

 - Sandwell Hall. They now play their home games at Sandwell Park, West Bromwich (also within the Earl's old estate), next to Sandwell Park Golf Club and almost opposite The Hawthorns, home to football team, West Bromwich Albion.

They were runners-up to fellow Birmingham League team Old Hill, in the 1993 national club knockout cup final.

Birmingham & District Cricket league Honours

Premier Division Champions. 1st XI
1930 1932 1934 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1948 1953 1955 1958 1965 1971 1974 1993
Joint Champions 1890 1933

Division One Champions. 1st XI
2003

Premier Division Champions. 2nd XI
1905 1929 1963 1965 1970 1972 1973 1974 1998

Division One Champions. 2nd XI
2004

Challenge Cup Champions
1969 1970 1972 1989 1990 1992 1993 1994 1997
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