Durham County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Durham. Its limited overs team is called the Durham Dynamos. Their kit colours are blue with yellow trim and the shirt sponsor was Northern Rock until its nationalisation in 2008. Durham is now sponsored by several companies, including Emirates.
The club is based at the Emirates Durham International Cricket Ground in Chester-le-Street.
Granted first-class status in 1991, Durham is English cricket's newest first-class county. The County Ground at the Riverside is also one of the newest additions to the English Test match circuit, hosting its first match – England v Zimbabwe in the second Test – from 5 June to 7 June 2003.
Durham CCC is playing in Division One of the LV County Championship, Group C of the ECB 40 League and in the North Group of the Twenty20 Cup in 2010.
Durham won the County Championship in 2008 for the first time, and retained the trophy in the 2009 season.
Read more about Durham County Cricket Club: Ground History, Players
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