Durham County Cricket Club
Durham County Cricket Club: competitions
Durham County Cricket Club: First-Class Cricket Competitions
Logo Tournament Wins YearsDurham County Cricket Club: Limited Overs Cricket Competitions
Logo Tournament Wins Years
Royal London One-Day Cup
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2007
Durham County Cricket Club: Twenty20 Cricket Competitions
Logo Tournament Wins YearsDurham County Cricket Club: overview
Durham County Cricket Club is one of the 18 first–class county clubs in the structure of cricket in England and Wales. Founded in the second half of the XIX century, it competed in junior category competitions for most of its history and only in 1992 officially joined the County Championship. The emblem is a blue shield with a gold border, divided into four parts by a vertical cross of the same color. Each of the sectors is decorated with an image of a roaring white lion standing on its hind legs. The home venue is Riverside Ground, capable of accommodating up to 15 thousand spectators.
Durham County Cricket Club: history
Durham residents got acquainted with cricket around the middle of the eighteenth century. At least, it is to this period that the mention of the match between the teams of the Earl of Northumberland and the Duke of Cleveland refers. The return game occurred at Stanwyck near Richmond, but the county did not have a single representative for several more decades. It was only in 1878 that Durham could field a competitive squad for the game against the Australians, winning with a difference of 71 runs. Two years later, they hosted the Southern visitors again, but this time they conceded because they did not find arguments against the “Demonic Bowler” Fred Spofforth.
DCCC was officially founded on 23 May 1882 and a few weeks later played its debut match against Northumberland, winning by a minimum margin of four wickets. It is curious that for a significant part of its history, the team shone in the junior series competitions, winning the Minor Counties Championship seven times between 1901 and 1984. In addition, it scored twice at the Gillette Cup level, winning a match in 1973 and then in 1985.
These successes pushed Durham County Cricket Club to move to a qualitatively new level. Preparing all the necessary documents took about two years, and in December 1991, the Durham team was awarded the first class.
At first, the club was not too lucky – for example, in 2004, Durham finished the season at the bottom of the standings and did not show anything intelligible in the NCL and the Northern Division Twenty20 Cup. The situation gradually improved with the appointment of Australian captain Mike Hussey, with whom Durham County Cricket Club finished second for the first time. Unfortunately, the current contract with the national team did not allow the representative of the Green Continent to stay in Durham for a long time, and Dale Benkenstein soon replaced him.
The club spent the 2006 season with varying success. Durham reached second place in the Northern Division of the C&G Trophy, but failed miserably in the Northern Division of the Twenty20 Cup, winning only two victories (both over Lancashire). At the start of the Pro40, the squad scored four points, winning one victory, drawing, without a result and losing one match. However, the results began to decline in the future, and even the final victory over Essex did not help to correct the situation: the accumulated points were only enough for the eighth line of the standings.
But in the County Championship, the real drama played out. After a good start, Durham County Cricket Club was teetering on the brink of relegation and could well have left the elite division if not for the misfire of its nearest rival, Nottingham. At the cost of incredible efforts in the last game of the season, Durham still managed to score the necessary number of points thanks to the phenomenal performance of Harry Park, who scored a hundred.
Durham County Cricket Club: our days
Durham County Cricket Club has won the County Championship three times in the last few seasons and, equally importantly, has become a supplier of personnel for the national team. Steve Harmison and Liam Plunkett have proven themselves at this level, and Phil Mustard has shone in the one-day format.
In 2007, Durham Dynamos (the county team representing it in the limited overs format) won the first Friends Provident Trophy in the club’s history. A few seasons later, Durham reminded of themselves at the Royal London One-Day Cup, taking the main trophy.
Durham County Cricket Club: trophies and interesting facts
From 1976 to 1982, the team did not lose a match at the Minor Counties Championship level, extending the winning streak to 65 games, which is an absolute record. Durham County Cricket Club has a total of seven titles won at this level (1895, 1900, 1901, 1926, 1930, 1976, 1980, 1981 and 1984), as well as three wins in the County Championship – 2008, 2009 and 2013.
The sponsors of Durham are a number of successful companies, including Emirates and Port of Tyne, as well as 188Bet.
