Club History
Welsh counties have formerly competed individually in the Minor Counties Championship. Glamorgan was easily the most successful and it became first-class in 1921. The others were Carmathenshire from 1908 to 1911; Denbighshire from 1930 to 1935; and Monmouthshire from 1901 to 1934.
Following the withdrawal of the Somerset Second XI from Minor counties cricket at the end of the 1987 season, Wales Minor Counties entered Minor counties cricket for the 1988 season as their replacement. Since then, Wales Minor Counties is yet to win the Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy.
The county first played List A cricket in the 1993 NatWest Trophy against Sussex. The county appeared in eighteen List A matches from 1993 to 2005, winning eight and losing ten, the majority of which against first-class opponents. Wales Minor Counties lost the right to play List A cricket when the Minor counties were excluded from the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy from the 2006 season onward.
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