Glastonbury Cricket Club is an English amateur cricket club based in Glastonbury, Somerset. The club's first team plays in the West of England Premier League which is an accredited ECB Premier League, the highest level for recreational club cricket in England and Wales.
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History
The first record of a cricket club representing Glastonbury is from 1893, when they played host to Weston-super-Mare at the Morlands Athletic Ground, Glastonbury. The home team won by seven wickets with a match-winning performance by 'R Laver', who claimed six Weston-super-Mare wickets, and then top-scored for Glastonbury in their reply with 54. Laver continued to star for Glastonbury in the three recorded matches from 1894, taking seven wickets against Wells, six against Yeovil, and five against Bridgwater. He claimed five wickets again in 1899, their next recorded match, against Wincanton.
In 1986, the Morlands Athletic Ground was renamed the Tor Leisure Ground. Glastonbury played in the Somerset League from at least 1990 until 2002, when they were divisional champions, earning promotion to the Bristol & Somerset Division. They won this division at the first attempt in 2003. Despite finishing with fewer points than Midsomer Norton, they had a higher average number of points due to having one more match cancelled. Playing in Premier Two in 2004, Glastonbury finished top of their league for the third successive season, gaining promotion to the West of England Premier League Premier One division.
Honours
West of England Premier League - Premier One
Runners-Up: 2005, 2008
West of England Premier League — Premier Two
Champions: 2004
West of England Premier League — Bristol & Somerset Division
Champions: 2003
West of England Premier League — Somerset Division
Champions: 2002
Somerset Major Cup
Champions: 2006, 2007, 2013
Runners-Up: 2008, 2009
Players
List of professional former players
Jos Buttler (Lancashire)Craig Kieswetter (Somerset)Rory Hamilton-Brown (Sussex)Ben Duckett (Northamptonshire)Wes Durston (Derbyshire)James Hildreth (Somerset)Cameron Steel (Middlesex)Gareth Andrews (Worcestershire)
Records & Statistics
Team records
Played: 312
Wins: 176
Loses: 106
No Result/Abandoned: 30
Batting
Most runs: 4,485 – Wes Durston
Best average: 54.04 – Wes Durston
Highest individual score: 214 – Wes Durston
Most fifties: 21 – Wes Durston
Most centuries: 13 – Wes Durston
Bowling
Most wickets: 266 – Robert Travers
Best average: 9.13 – Christopher Slocombe
Best bowling: 8/71 – Andrew Barron
Best strike rate: 18.34 – Wes Durston
Best economy rate: 2.54 – David Beal
Fielding
Most catches (Outfield): 77 – Steven Spencer
Most catches(Wicket-Keeping): 57 – Justin Lisk
Most stumpings: 25 – Justin Lisk
Most run outs: 12 – Steven Spencer
All statistics & records as of 23 March 2014.
Club officials
Committee
Patron: Joel Garner
Chairman: Heather Hall
Honorary Treasurer: Stephanie Berry
Honorary Secretary: Gabrielle Owen
Advisor: Steve Dickens
Club Captain: Stephen Keates
Head Groundsman: Keith Tooze & Bob Taylor
Coaching staff
Director of Cricket: David Beal
1st team coach: Andy Gibbens
1st team captain: Matt Shawcross
2nd team captain: Chris Herbert
3rd team captain: Ian Odam
Under 15s team manager: David Beal
Under 13s team manager: David Gooch
Under 11s A team manager: Zoe Smeed
Under 11s B team manager: Jerry Dalton