Gloucestershire County Cricket Club League in 2000. Cricket probably reached Gloucestershire by the end of the 17th century. It is known that the related sport of "Stow-Ball" "aka" "Stob-Ball" was played in the county during the 16th century. In this game, the bat was called a "stave". See Alice B Gomme : "The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland". A game in Gloucester on 22 September 1729 is the earliest definite reference to cricket in the county. From then until the founding of the county club, very little has been found outside parish cricket. In the early 1840s, Dr Henry Grace and his
Lincolnshire County Cricket League Lincolnshire County Cricket League The Lincolnshire County Cricket League is the main club cricket competition ran in Lincolnshire. The competition is open to all cricket clubs in Lincolnshire, although clubs in the south of the county can play in the South Lincs and Border Cricket League. The current format is 5 divisions of 50 teams with the top team in the premier league being invited to play in the Lincolnshire Premier League the following season. The 2017 Champions were Scunthorpe Town Cricket Club. The competition started in 1963 as a way of merging all of the local Saturday cricket leagues