Hertford Cricket Club is an English amateur cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 club, located in Hertford

Hertford

Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. Forming a civil parish, the 2001 census put the population of Hertford at about 24,180. Recent estimates are that it is now around 28,000...

, the county town

County town

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 of Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...

. Cricket records for a Hertford club go back a far as 1825, however the club in its present form has been in existence since 1860.

In 2009 the club was relegated

Promotion and relegation

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 from the Home Counties Premier Cricket League

Home Counties Premier Cricket League

The Home Counties Premier Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in the Home Counties of England, and since 2000 has been a designated ECB Premier League...

, an accredited ECB Premier League

ECB Premier Leagues

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, the highest level for recreational club cricket in England and Wales. However, a year later they won promotion back to the league for the 2011 season.

The clubs also fields four other Saturday league XI's in the Saracens Hertfordshire League

Hertfordshire Cricket League

The Hertfordshire Cricket League is an amateur league cricket competition based in the county of Hertfordshire, England. It serves as a feeder league to the Home Counties Premier Cricket League, which is a designated ECB Premier League, the highest level of recreational club cricket in England and...

.

Home matches are played at Balls Park

Balls Park

Balls Park is a cricket ground in Hertford, Hertfordshire. The ground is located in the grounds of the Balls Park estate. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1865 between Hertford and a United South of England Eleven. In 1901, the ground hosted its first Minor Counties Championship...

 in grounds of the Balls Park estate. Balls Park is regularly used by Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire County Cricket Club

Hertfordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Hertfordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

, and since 1901 the club has hosted Minor Counties Championship, MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

The Minor Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the Minor Counties in English cricket...

 and List A matches.