Finedon_Dolben_Cricket_Club
Finedon Dolben Cricket Club
Cricket team
Finedon Dolben Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based in Finedon, Northamptonshire, England. Finedon Dolben have 4 senior XI teams in the Northamptonshire Cricket League,[1] and an established Junior Section, who play in both the Higham & District Youth League[2] and the Corby and District Youth Cricket League[3][4]
Finedon Dolben Cricket Club | |
| League | Northamptonshire Cricket League |
|---|---|
| Team information | |
| Colors | Blue Gold |
| Founded | 1836 |
| Home ground | Avenue Road, Finedon, Wellingborough |
| History | |
| Premier wins | 13 |
| Official website | finedondolben |
Finedon Dolben Cricket Club was founded in 1836 and records show that they joined the Kettering & District Cricket League in 1896.[5] After many years of league activity, resulting in numerous championship title wins,[6] Finedon Dolben became a member of the Northamptonshire Cricket League. Since the Northamptonshire Cricket League was designated an ECB Premier League in 1999,[7] Finedon Dolben is one of only three cricket clubs (Finedon Dolben, Old Northamptonians and Peterborough Town) to have held a constant presence in the highest level of competition for recreational club cricket in Northamptonshire, with eleven ECB Premiership league championship titles to their name.[8]
The Northamptonshire Cricket League competition results showing the club's positions in the league (by Division) since 1999.
| Key | |
|---|---|
| Gold | Champions |
| Red | Relegated |
| Grey | League Suspended |
| Key | |
|---|---|
| P | ECB Premier Division |
| 1 | Division One |
| 2 | Division Two, etc. |
| Team | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st XI | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
| 2nd XI | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 3rd XI | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | |||||
| 4th XI | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | |||||||||||||
Source: [9]
| Division | Year(s) |
|---|---|
| Premier | 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2022, 2023 |
| Division Two | 2019 |
| Division Six | 2014 |
| Division Seven | 2013 |
| Division Eight | 2012 |
| Division Nine | 2021 |
| Division Ten | 2019 |
| Division Eleven | 2004, 2006, 2017 |
| Result | Cup | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Winners | Hevey NCL T20 Championship - Finals Day | 2019 |
| Northamptonshire County Knock-out Cup | 1998, 1999, 2003 |
| Division | Year(s) |
|---|---|
| Premier | 1997, 1998 |
| Division One | 1973 |
| Division Two | 1957 |
| Division Three | 1967 |
| Division | Year(s) |
|---|---|
| Division One | 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934 |
Source:[10]
- "Northamptonshire Cricket League". ncl.play-cricket.com. Northamptonshire Cricket League. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- "Higham & District Youth League". highamanddistrictleague.play-cricket.com. Higham & District Youth League. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- "Corby and District Youth Cricket League". cdycl.play-cricket.com. Corby and District Youth Cricket League. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- "Finedon Dolben Cricket Club". finedondolben.play-cricket.com. Finedon Dolben Cricket Club. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- Buckby, Richard (2020). Finedon’s First Professional Cricketer (PDF). Wellingborough: Finedon Local History Society. p. 2.
- "Finedon Dolben Cricket XI 1931". finedonlocalhistorysociety.co.uk. Finedon Local History Society. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- List of ECB Premier Leagues Archived 2008-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
- "Skipper Callum delighted as Finedon end their seven-year wait". northantstelegraph.co.uk. Northamptonshire Telegraph. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- "Team Information for - 1st XI". finedondolben.play-cricket.com. Finedon Dolben CC. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- "Northamptonshire Competition Winners". acscricket.com. The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 4 February 2022.