Shrewsbury Cricket Club is an 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 in Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is a civil parish home to some 70,000 inhabitants, and is the primary settlement and headquarters of Shropshire Council...

, Shropshire

Shropshire

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. Their 1st XI currently plays in the Birmingham and District Premier League premier division and their 2nd XI plays in the first division. They won the William Younger Cup

ECB National Club Cricket Championship

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in 1983. They were semi finalists in the same competition in 2009. In 2010 they won The Birmingham Premier League and could claim to be one of the best club cricket teams in England.

They play their home games at London Road, Shrewsbury.

Chairman: Andy Barnard

1st X1 Captain: Ed Foster
2nd X1 Captain: Nick Jones