Old Hill Cricket Club is an amateur

Amateur

An amateur is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training....

 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 in Cradley Heath

Cradley Heath

Cradley Heath is a town in the Black Country, located in Sandwell metropolitan borough, England. The name is usually pronounced "Craid-ley", not "Crad-ley", but in the Black Country accent, it may even sound like "Craig-ley Aith"...

, West Midlands

West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...

, England

England

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Founded in 1884 as Haden Hill Victoria, the club has played on Haden Hill ground in Cradley Heath since founding, having purchased it in 1934, with the ground placed owned by a Trust and shared with Old Hill Tennis Club

Old Hill Tennis Club

Old Hill Tennis Club is an amateur Tennis club in Cradley Heath, Birmingham, England.It neighbours on Old Hill Cricket Club, and the two clubs, while both being run entirely separately by individual committees, share close relationships with each other, and are in a trust...

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Old Hill joined the Birmingham League

Birmingham and District Premier League

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 in 1920, and first won the league in its second year of membership. They also won the Division 1 title in 1940, 1960, and 1983. Their 1st XI currently plays in Division 1 and the 2nd XI play in the 2nd XI Premier Division. The 3rd XI meanwhile plays in the Worcestershire County Cricket League

Worcestershire County Cricket League

The Worcestershire County Cricket League is an English club cricket league, and consists of club teams from Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and several other sides from bordering counties.-History:...

. They are one of the most prominent clubs in English cricket, winning the ECB National Club Cricket Championship

ECB National Club Cricket Championship

The ECB National Club Cricket Championship is a knockout club cricket competition in England. The most successful clubs have been Scarborough Cricket Club from Yorkshire, with five titles and Old Hill Cricket Club from the Metropolitan county of West Midlands , with four.-Winners:ECB National Club...

 in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1993, and being runners-up in 1989.

One of the club's recent successes is that of the girls under 13 team. the girls won the national Lady Taverners girls' championship; beating Bath

Bath Cricket Club

Bath Cricket Club is an English amateur cricket club based in the city of Bath, Somerset. The club was founded in 1859 and competes in the West of England Premier League, which is an accredited ECB Premier League, the highest level for recreational club cricket in England and Wales.Home matches...

 in the final. As a result of this win, the team was named BBC

BBC

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 Midlands Sports Personality of the Year junior team winners 2005 http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/midlandstoday/features/2005/sportsawards_results.shtml.

Famous former players having played Test cricket

Test cricket

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 include Eric Hollies

Eric Hollies

William Eric Hollies was an English cricketer, who is mainly remembered for taking the wicket of Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test match innings, in which only four was needed for a Test average of 100...

, Charles Palmer, Ron Headley

Ron Headley

Ronald George Alphonso Headley is a former West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests and one ODI in 1973. An opening batsman, in first-class cricket he scored 21,695 runs at an average of 31.12, with 32 hundreds and a highest score of 187.Headley spent most of his career in England, playing...

, Dean Headley

Dean Headley

Dean Warren Headley is an English cricketer.He comes from a famous cricketing family, being the son of Ron Headley and grandson of George Headley. He was the first Test cricketer to be both the son and grandson of Test cricketers...

, Peter Carlstein

Peter Carlstein

Peter Rudolph Carlstein is a former South African cricketer who played in eight Tests from 1958 to 1964., He was also Rhodesian Player of the Year 1967–68-References:...

, Mushtaq Mohammad

Mushtaq Mohammad

Mushtaq Mohammad is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 57 Tests and 10 ODIs from 1959 to 1979. A right-handed batsman and a leg-spinner, he is one of the most successful Pakistani all-rounders and went on to captain his country in nineteen Test matches...

 and Greg Matthews

Greg Matthews

Gregory Richard John "Mo" Matthews is a former New South Wales and Australian cricketer who is now a television cricket commentator....

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