East Anglian Premier Cricket League
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The East Anglian Premier Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket
in East Anglia
, England
, and since 1999 has been a designated ECB
Premier League
. It has three feeder leagues, the Two Counties Cricket Championship, The Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Premier League and the Norfolk Alliance, from which clubs are able to gain promotion by way of a play-off with the winners of the other feeder leagues should more than one of them wish to join the league in the same season.
Club cricket
Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal, form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the evening. There is a great deal of variation in game format although the Laws of Cricket are always observed...
in East Anglia
East Anglia
East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, and since 1999 has been a designated ECB
England and Wales Cricket Board
The England and Wales Cricket Board is the governing body of cricket in England and Wales. It was created on 1 January 1997 combining the roles of the Test and County Cricket Board, the National Cricket Association and the Cricket Council...
Premier League
ECB Premier Leagues
In 1997 the ECB published "Raising the Standard", the ECB Management Board Blueprint for the Future Playing Structure of cricket. This introduced the concept of ECB Premier Leagues, designed to raise the playing standard of the top tier of club cricket and to bridge the gap between recreational...
. It has three feeder leagues, the Two Counties Cricket Championship, The Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Premier League and the Norfolk Alliance, from which clubs are able to gain promotion by way of a play-off with the winners of the other feeder leagues should more than one of them wish to join the league in the same season.
Winners
Year | Champions |
---|---|
2010 | Cambridge Granta Cricket Club |
2009 | Vauxhall Mallards Cricket Club |
2008 | Swardeston Cricket Club |
2007 | Swardeston Cricket Club |
2006 | Bury St Edmunds Cricket Club |
2005 | Bury St Edmunds Cricket Club |
2004 | Vauxhall Mallards Cricket Club |
2003 | Vauxhall Mallards Cricket Club |
2002 | Vauxhall Mallards Cricket Club |
2001 | Norwich Cricket Club |
2000 | Norwich Cricket Club |
1999 | Vauxhall Mallards Cricket Club |