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Quatt Cricket Club
editQuatt Cricket Club is a village cricket club based in South East Shropshire in the village of Quatt in between Alveley and Bridgnorth. The club fields four Saturday league senior teams as well as a Sunday league senior women's side, a midweek side and junior teams from U9s to U15s.
History
editAlthough the Club traces its (more or less) continuous history from 1908, there are reports of matches being played by Quatt in the 1880's. It is understood that these games took place in Dudmaston Park, somewhere not too far from the Hall (pictured), the wickets would of course been unprepared.The Club was founded in 1908 by Captain G.C. Wolryche-Whitmore, who took a great interest in it for over sixty years. It flourished until 1914, and then again for a short while after the First World War. The Club then folded for a few years until it was re-founded in 1936 by A.G. Mason.One of the early matches, perhaps the first one was between the 'Estate' and 'Village' - not an occasion that would be thought 'proper' nowadays. It is said that Captain Wolryche-Whitmore (then 55 years old) unleashed some ferocious strokes in partnership with J.F.A. Mason. The Club continued on satisfactorily until 1939 and the outbreak of the Second World War.
The Club got going again very quickly indeed in 1946, sooner than most in the area, and has continued ever since, undergoing the changes common to all Clubs which survived - better wickets, mown outfields and wider catchment areas. Some of the early games were real tests of strength in that it took so much effort to drive the ball through the longer grass of those times, with scores inevitably much lower than those today. An individual score of fifty was unusual until relatively recent times, and a Team score of fifty was often enough. In the early 1980's the team worked its way to the top of the Shropshire League culminating in winning the Division Two (Now Division One) Championship in 1983.
In recent years the Club has re-established itself as one of the top village teams in Shropshire following a baron spell in the mid nineties where the club was within a whisker of folding. However, an influx of players from the local and surrounding areas meant that the club was able to establish a 2nd XI for the first time in 2000, a Ladies team in 2002, a 3rd XI in 2007 and a 4th XI in 2025.
In 2003, the Club repeated the success of twenty years previous when they clinched the Division One Championship and acheived promotion to the Shropshire Premier League. They were the first village side in Shropshire to reach this level.
At the end of the 2011 season QCC embarked on a new era. The existing old wooden pavilion, originally constructed in the 1930's, was demolished and made way for a state-of-the-art structure more suitable for the club in its current state. The club also acquired the land adjacent to the ground up towards the wall of the church graveyard where a new pitch to facilitate 3rd XI home games was constructed and completed in 2015. In 2023, the club completed the construction of a new 3-lane enclosed practice facility.
The 1st XI won the Shropshire County Cricket League for the first and currently only occasion in 2012 where it was promoted to the Birmingham and District Premier Cricket League. The 1st XI competed for two seasons in the Birmingham League before relegation back to the SCCL Premier in 2014. Since then, the 1st XI has finished runners-up in the SCCL Premier Division five times in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2024 as well as being runners-up in 2009 and 2011 prior to the 2012 triumph.
The 1st XI won the SCCL Knockout cup in 2018, 2021 and 2022. Following the 2021 triumph the 1st XI subsequently made it to the ECB national T20 plate final where they lost to Pershore at Wantage Road, Northampton.
In 2026, the club now has 4 Saturday league teams playing in the Shropshire County Cricket League, a women's team competing in the West Midlands Women's Premier Division (the top level of female club cricket), a midweek side playing in the Wilden Industrial Estates Cricket League and a 5th XI playing friendlies with a view to joining a league structure in 2027. In 2025, the club was awarded Junior Club of the Year a the Shropshire Cricket Board awards.
First class players to play for Quatt include; Dean Robinson (2009-10) for Central Districts and New Zealand U19s, Kuldeep Diwan (2023-24) for Haryana and Nipun Karunanayake (2026) for Bloomfield CAC, Sri Lanka U19s & Sri Lanka A.
Honours
editShropshire County Cricket League
editPremier Division Champions - 2012 (1st XI)
Division 1 Champions - 1983, 2003 (1st XI)
Division 2 Champions - 1982, 2002 (1st XI), 2024 (2nd XI)
Division 3 Champions - 1999 (1st XI)
Division 4 Champions - 2021 (2nd XI)
Division 7 Champions - 2025 (3rd XI)
League Premier Knockout Winners - 2018, 2021, 2022 (1st XI)
West Midlands Women's Cricket League
editDivision 1 Champions 2012, 2019
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