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unusual facts about Club cricket


Club cricket

Also, first-class players returning from injury will sometimes appear at club level as match practice - for example, Shoaib Akhtar during the Pakistan's tour of England in 2006 when he played for Berkswell C.C, a club who are in the well-known Birmingham League.


Frank Ahl

Born in Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Ahl never really succeeded at county level, despite being a force in club cricket.

United Arab Emirates national cricket team

The game spread during World War II, The Royal Air Force of Britain and other Commonwealth forces (which included first-class and club cricketers from Australia and New Zealand) stationed in the cities like Ajman, Al Ain, Dubai and Sharjah, continued their favourite pastime.


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2008 Champions League Twenty20

The 2008 Champions League Twenty20 was scheduled to be the first edition of the Champions League Twenty20, an international club cricket tournament.

Ahsan-ul-Haq

Ahsan-ul-Haq went to England to study law where he played for Hampstead in club cricket and three first class matches for Middlesex in 1902.

Alex Lilley

Lilley played club cricket in Melbourne, Australia in 2011 for the Mont Albert Cricket Club, where he took a competition leading 37 wickets for the season.

Amandeep Singh

He attends Lincoln University and plays club cricket for Sydenham.

Ashley Woodcock

He later became a coach in local club cricket, and a lecturer at La Trobe University.

Chris Ashling

In 2008, he ceased playing for Bowdon and instead played his club cricket for Sudbrook Cricket Club in Monmouthshire.

Chris Nevin

He also briefly represented the Hampshire Cricket Board side in the Natwest Trophy, having played 4 seasons of club cricket in England for the Liphook and Ripsley Cricket Club.

Kim Davies

Davies, who played club cricket for Clydach and who represented Aberavon RFC in rugby, made his first-class cricketing debut during the 1975 season, against Cambridge University.

Shropshire Premier Cricket League

It was one step above the Shropshire Cricket League, and acted as a feeder league to the Birmingham and District Premier League, which is at the top of the English club cricket pyramid.

Wayne Prior

Prior spent the 1976 English cricket season playing English club cricket, as well as stints for the Kent Second XI and DH Robins' XI.