North Wales Cricket League
The North Wales Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in North Wales, and since 2001 has been an accredited ECB Premier League as part of the expansion of cricket at a grassroots level.
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack devotes a chapter of each annual edition to the ECB Premier Leagues which it describes as the pinnacle of achievement in local league cricket within England and Wales. The Premier Leagues were founded in 1999 to raise standards in all regions to those attained by the Bradford Cricket League, Central Lancashire Cricket League and Lancashire League. For example, Wisden's 2006 edition, reviewing the 2005 season, noted that there were then 24 ECB Premier Leagues (29 as of 2018) with North Wales having been recognised as such since 2001.[1]
The competing teams in 2018 are: Bangor, Brymbo, Chirk, Connah's Quay, Denbigh, Gresford, Hawarden Park, Llandudno, Menai Bridge, Northop, Pwllheli, and St Asaph.
Winners
| Year | Champions |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Bangor |
| 2002 | Bangor |
| 2003 | Hawarden Park |
| 2004 | Llandudno |
| 2005 | Mold |
| 2006 | Llandudno |
| 2007 | Llandudno |
| 2008 | Llandudno |
| 2009 | Llandudno |
| 2010 | Llandudno |
| 2011 | Connah's Quay |
| 2012 | Llandudno |
| 2013 | Llandudno |
| 2014 | Menai Bridge |
| 2015 | Menai Bridge |
| 2016 | Llandudno |
| 2017 | Bangor |
Performance by season from 2001
| Key | |
|---|---|
| Gold | Champions |
| Red | Relegated |
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangor | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Bethesda | 12 | 11 | 9 | 12 | ||||||||||||||
| Brymbo | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 6 | |
| Chirk | 12 | 11 | 12 | 10 | ||||||||||||||
| Connah's Quay | 9 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |||||
| Denbigh | 7 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Dolgellau | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| Gresford | 7 | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Gwersyllt Park 1 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Halkyn | 6 | 9 | 11 | |||||||||||||||
| Hawarden Park | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 8 | ||
| Llandudno | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | |
| Llanrwst | 10 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 12 | ||||||||
| Llay Welfare | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
| Marchwiel and Wrexham | 10 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Menai Bridge | 8 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Mochdre | 11 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 11 | |
| Mold | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 11 | ||||
| Northop | 5 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 12 | |||||||||
| Pontblyddyn | 7 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 11 | ||
| Pwllheli | 12 | 9 | 8 | 12 | ||||||||||||||
| St Asaph | 8 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 3 | ||||
| [2] | [3] | [4] | [5] | [6] | [7] | [8] | [9] | [10] | [11] | [12] | [13] | [14] | [15] | [16] | [17] | [18] | ||
- ^1 — Gwersyllt Park resigned from the Premier Division after the 2007 season
References
- Notes
- ↑ Wisden, pp. 946–952.
- ↑ Club Cricket Yearbook 2006
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2002".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2003".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2004".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2005".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2006".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2007".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2008".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2009".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2010".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2011".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2012".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2013".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2014".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2015".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2016".
- ↑ "Premier Division - 2017".
- Sources
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 143rd edition, editor Matthew Engel, John Wisden & Co. Ltd, 2006
External links
- North Wales Cricket League - Play-Cricket site