Keyworth Cricket Club History
Welcome to the official Keyworth Cricket Club history website. Within these pages you will find an ever increasing amount of current and historic information about our Nottinghamshire village cricket team.
About Keyworth Cricket Club
The first reference to the men of Keyworth playing cricket can be
found in the 15 June 1815 issue of the Nottingham Review - Keyworth
defeating neighbour village Bunny in a two innings match played on
Tuesday 13 June 1815. Keyworth scoring 24 & 81, Bunny 59 & 36.
Cricket blossomed in the South Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire
border area when between 1810 and 1820 most of the villages formed a
team and it is known that Keyworth played their early matches on the
Rectory Field (the current home ground) and stayed there until the
1870’s when they moved on to a field on Bunny Lane immediately
behind the present Davill’s (Greenhays) Farm and Keyworth became one
of the best village teams in the County with many of their players
achieving fame far beyond the village border and it is said that the
village produced no fewer than forty professional players and
coaches at this time, some of whom played for Nottinghamshire CCC,
including the ‘great’ William Dick Attewell and his relatives Thomas
and Walter, also Arthur Pike, Thomas Simpson and Matthew William
Wright, not to mention other ‘stars’ such as William Lane Pike, Josh
Simpson, William Tomlinson, Thomas Armstrong, William Widdowson and
Harry Bolton. All from a village with a population of around 900
people by the late 1900s and when the Nottinghamshire Cricket
Association was formed in 1890, Keyworth finish fourth in the first
season of the Senior Alliance League and were South Notts Cricket
League Champions in 1922.
If this taste of the early history of the club is of interest please
read our comprehensive story in the
HISTORY SECTION of this website
which takes you through the journey from 1815 to the present day and
relates it to other events taking place over the near 200 years of
cricket in Keyworth.
Barry Baker
President – Keyworth Cricket Club
Current Keyworth Teams
- Senior First Team - G&M South Nottingham Division C
- Senior Second Team - G&M South Nottingham Division J
- Sunday Friendly Team
- Juniors Teams - Under 12`s,13`s,14`s & 15`s