Thames Valley Cricket League
The Thames Valley Cricket League is a mostly amateur cricket league, catering to clubs geographically to the west of London, with clubs coming from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire and Surrey, though most are from Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. The league, once the top level of amateur cricket in the area, has become a feeder league for the Home Counties Premier Cricket League since the creation of the Premier League, however the standard of the league is considered to be high, evidenced by the proliferation of Thames Valley League sides in the Premier Leagues, as well as the large uptake of expansion places in the league.
Format
The league is played on Saturday afternoons, and the matches are 100 overs in length. The side batting first can bat for a maximum of 52 overs, and the chasing team can use all overs not used by them. In Divisions 8 and 9, the matches are 90 overs on length with the side batting first allowed a maximum of 47 overs. Points are awarded as follows:
- 25 points for a win
- 2 points for scoring 100 runs, and 2 more for every 25 runs after that up to 200. In the second innings this is 1 point.
- 1 point for taking 2 wickets, up to a maximum of 5 points for bowling the opposition out.
- 7 points for a rained-off match
- 15 points for a tie
Note that no bonus points are awarded to the winning team.
Winners
Division 1
| Year | Champions[1] |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Cove Cricket Club |
| 2019 | Wargrave Cricket Club |
| 2018 | Cookham Dean Cricket Club |
| 2017 | Wokingham Cricket Club |
| 2016 | Chesham Cricket Club |
| 2015 | Cookham Dean Cricket Club |
| 2014 | Kew Cricket Club |
| 2013 | Amersham Cricket Club |
| 2012 | Reading Cricket Club |
| 2011 | Cove Cricket Club |
| 2010 | Burnham Cricket Club |
| 2009 | Harefield Cricket Club |
| 2008 | Beaconsfield Cricket Club |
| 2007 | Thatcham Town Cricket Club |
| 2006 | Kew Cricket Club |
| 2005 | Wokingham Cricket Club |
| 2004 | North Maidenhead Cricket Club |
| 2003 | NPL Teddington Cricket Club |
| 2002 | Gerrards Cross Cricket Club |
| 2001 | Farnham Royal Cricket Club |
| 2000 | Burnham Cricket Club |
| 1999 | High Wycombe Cricket Club |
| 1998 | Hounslow Cricket Club |
| 1997 | Beaconsfield Cricket Club |
| 1996 | Basingstoke Cricket Club |
| 1995 | Ickenham Cricket Club |
| 1994 | Finchampstead Cricket Club |
| 1993 | Beaconsfield Cricket Club |
| 1992 | Reading Cricket Club |
| 1991 | Beaconsfield Cricket Club |
| 1990 | Boyne Hill Cricket Club |
| 1989 | Basingstoke Cricket Club |
| 1988 | Basingstoke Cricket Club |
| 1987 | High Wycombe Cricket Club |
| 1986 | Maidenhead & Bray Cricket Club |
| 1985 | Basingstoke Cricket Club |
| 1984 | Beaconsfield Cricket Club |
| 1983 | Beaconsfield Cricket Club |
| 1982 | Uxbridge Cricket Club |
| 1981 | Reading Cricket Club |
| 1980 | Ickenham Cricket Club |
| 1979 | Hounslow Cricket Club |
| 1978 | High Wycombe Cricket Club |
| 1977 | Reading Cricket Club |
| 1976 | Maidenhead & Bray Cricket Club |
| 1975 | Reading Cricket Club |
| 1974 | Reading Cricket Club |
| 1973 | Gerrards Cross Cricket Club |
| 1972 | Basingstoke Cricket Club |
Member Clubs
| Club | Number of Teams |
|---|---|
| Aldershot Cricket Club | 3 |
| Amersham Cricket Club | 4 |
| Bagshot Cricket Club | 3 |
| Barnes Cricket Club | 1 |
| Beaconsfield Cricket Club | 3 |
| Boyne Hill Cricket Club | 4 |
| Bracknell Cricket Club | 2 |
| Burnham Cricket Club | 3 |
| Chalfont St. Peter Cricket Club | 2 |
| Chenies & Latimer Cricket Club | 3 |
| Chesham Cricket Club | 3 |
| Chiswick & Latymer Cricket Club | 4 |
| Cookham Dean Cricket Club | 4 |
| Cove Cricket Club | 5 |
| Datchet Cricket Club | 4 |
| Eversley Cricket Club | 4 |
| Falkland Cricket Club | 3 |
| Farnham Common Cricket Club | 3 |
| Farnham Royal Cricket Club | 2 |
| Finchampstead Cricket Club | 5 |
| Fleet Cricket Club | 3 |
| Gerrards Cross Cricket Club | 2 |
| Harefield Cricket Club | 3 |
| Hayes Cricket Club | 4 |
| Henley Cricket Club | 2 |
| High Wycombe Cricket Club | 4 |
| Hillingdon Manor Cricket Club | 2 |
| Hurst Cricket Club | 2 |
| Ickenham Cricket Club | 4 |
| Kew Cricket Club | 4 |
| Kidmore End Cricket Club | 4 |
| Maidenhead and Bray Cricket Club | 4 |
| Marlow Cricket Club | 3 |
| Marlow Park Cricket Club | 1 |
| Newbury Cricket Club | 3 |
| North Maidenhead Cricket Club | 2 |
| NPL Teddington Cricket Club | 3 |
| Old Merchant Taylors Cricket Club | 3 |
| Princes Risborough Cricket Club | 2 |
| Purley on Thames Cricket Club | 2 |
| Reading Cricket Club | 4 |
| Royal Ascot Cricket Club | 4 |
| Ruislip Cricket Club | 2 |
| Slough Cricket Club | 4 |
| Sonning Cricket Club | 2 |
| Stoke Green Cricket Club | 3 |
| Thatcham Town Cricket Club | 4 |
| Theale & Tilehurst Cricket Club | 3 |
| Tring Park Cricket Club | 3 |
| Wargrave Cricket Club | 3 |
| Windsor Cricket Club | 3 |
| Wokingham Cricket Club | 5 |
| Wooburn Narkovians Cricket Club | 2 |
| Yateley Cricket Club | 3 |
References
- "Thames Valley Cricket League - Previous Years Tables". www.tvlcricket.com. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
Sources
- http://www.tvlcricket.com/
- https://archive.is/20130131150034/http://thamesvalleycl.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp
- Thames Valley Cricket League Handbook
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110724213920/http://www.homecountiescricket.com/constitution.asp
- https://archive.is/20130119025213/http://www.christopher-chandler.com/BNHCC/
- http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/sport/cricket/s/2077903_thames_valley_cricket_league_roundup
- http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/cricket/s/2075987_flynns_on_fire_in_thames_valley_cricket_league
- https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/ENG/2011_ENG_Thames_Valley_Cricket_League_Division_One_2011.html