Cricket
The Bedfordshire County Cricket Club is Bedfordshire's county cricket club. They are classed as one of the 'Minor Counties' in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Bedfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy.
The club play most of their matches at Wardown Park, Luton.
Other cricket venues in the county include:
- Ampthill Park, Ampthill
- The Vale, Flitwick
- Goldington Bury, Bedford
- Lancot Park, Dunstable
- Southill Park Cricket Club, Southill
- Bedford Modern School, Bedford
The club has produced several cricketers who have made an impact on the first-class game:
- Louis Bookman
- Alf Gover
- Tom Clark
- Geoff Millman
- Wayne Larkins
- Alastair Cook
- Monty Panesar
Read more about this topic: Sport In Bedfordshire
Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)