Durham County Cricket Club

Durham County Cricket Club (Durham CCC) is an English domestic first-class cricket team based at the Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, County Durham.

History of the club

Early cricket in the north-east

The first recorded match of representative cricket in the county took place in 1848 at Sunderland, between an All England XII and a Bishopwearmouth 22. Despite their extra numbers the cricketers of Bishopwearmouth were comprehensively outplayed as All England's scores of 129 and 143 dwarfed their own 56 and 59.

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1848 - Sunderland

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The first team to carry the name of 'Durham County' played an MCC team in 1876, and went on to take on the touring Australians in 1878, winning by 71 runs, and again in 1880, losing by an innings and 38 with the great Fred Spofforth taking 17 wickets for 66.

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MCC - 1876 - Australians - 1878 - 1880 - Fred Spofforth

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Founding of the club

Durham CCC was founded as an official entity on May 23, 1882, and the nascent club played its first competetive match on June 12 of that year, beating Northumberland by 4 wickets at the Ashbrooke Ground, Sunderland. The club established an enviable record as a minor county: becoming the first minor county to beat a first-class county in the Gilette Cup; winning the Minor Counties Championship a record-equalling nine times between 1900 and 1984; and putting together a record of 65 matches without defeat between 1976 and 1982 that remains unbroken to the present day.

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May 23 - 1882 - June 12 - Northumberland - Wickets - Sunderland - Minor county - 1976 - 1982

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Early in 1989, the Club began the process of applying to become a first-class cricketing county and join the County Championship. First-class status was awarded on December 6, 1991, with Durham becoming the first new first-class county for 70 years. Their first season in the County Championship was the 1992 season.

Related Topics:
1989 - County Championship - December 6 - 1991 - 1992

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Durham have not been distinguished by marked success as a first-class county. In the 2004 season they finished bottom of the two-division County Championship, sixth out of ten teams in the one-day National Cricket League and fifth out of six teams in the Northern Division of the Twenty20 Cup.

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2004 - One-day - National Cricket League - Twenty20 Cup

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