Club Honours
Birmingham & District Premier Cricket League Division Three Champions 2009
Shropshire Premier League Champions 2002
Affiliated to:
Shropshire Cricket Board
Midlands Club Cricket Conference
Birmingham & District Premier Cricket League sponsored by Birmingham Midshires
FBC Manby Bowdler Shropshire Cricket League
South Staffordshire Sunday Cricket League
East Shropshire Junior Cricket Board
Junior Cricket Registration Evening: Friday 26 March, 6.30pm at the Clubhouse
NatWest Cricket Force Weekend: Friday 26 - Sunday 28 March (further details to follow)
Junior Cricket (NatWest InterCricket Awards Scheme): starts Friday 30 April
Minor counties Cricket Association Fixture at Cricket Meadow
Shropshire v Dorset: Sunday 20 - Tuesday 22 June
Shropshire Cricket Board Junior Fixtures at Cricket Meadow
9th May: Shropshire U17 Boys v Worcestershire Academy - 11.00am start
23rd May: Shropshire U15 Boys v Worcestershire U15 Boys - 11.00am start
21st & 22nd July: Shropshire U17 Boys v Warwickshire U17 Boys (ECB County Championship) - 11.00am start
Bridgnorth Cricket Club was established in 1839, an event recorded in "Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle", the leading national sports journal of the day. The three most important cricket clubs in Shropshire at this time were Shrewsbury, Eyton and Bridgnorth.
The club played at several locations before moving to its present ground in 1887, where it had a small clubhouse, which was replaced in 1926, enlarged in 1954 and rebuilt in 1975 after amalgamation with Bridgnorth Hockey Club.
Bridgnorth first played league cricket briefly in 1959 / 60 in an embryo Shropshire Cricket League, but left the league and reverted to playing most of its fixtures against clubs in the West Midlands conurbation, which it had done since the end of the First World War.
In 1972 it joined a re-vamped Shropshire Cricket League, won the league for the first and only time in 2003, and then became part of the new Birmingham and District Premier Cricket League, playing in its second division. The club had an association with the original Birmingham League founded in 1888, and had fixtures with many of its constituent clubs. From 1964 to 1971 Bridgnorth played by invitation in the Birmingham League knockout competition, reaching the final in 1968.
Bridgnorth has played Sunday league cricket since 1988, again in leagues based in the West Midlands, and now plays in the South Staffs Sunday Cricket League, formed in 2003.
The club has a long-established junior cricket section. This has always been very strong and teams play in a full-range of age-group competitions. The club's senior teams are still made up largely of players who have developed through the youth programme - a policy which will continue.
Some Bridgnorth CC players have progressed to careers in first-class cricket. Some have spent time on the staff of first-class counties and numbers have played minor counties cricket for Shropshire.
Sydney Francis Barnes played for Bridgnorth in the 1938 season, and headed the batting and bowling averages. Barnes was, and remains, arguably the greatest fast bowler the world has ever seen, but in 1938 was 65 years old. He continued to play cricket after leaving Bridgnorth.
Full details of the club's history can be found in the book "Bridgnorth Cricket Club : 1839 to 1990", published in 2001.
Clubhouse Facilities
Four Changing Rooms (Two Male, Two Female)
Two Shower Areas
Disabled Access / Disabled Toilet Facilities
Fully-Fitted Kitchen
Licensed Bar!
Public Telephone
Ground Facilities
14 grass pitches
Pitch covers
Square covers
One grass net
Two artificial nets
Brick-built scorebox
Picnic area
Grass parking facility
Sightscreens
Assorted off-pitch seating
Large private car park
