Connect with us

Club

STOCKTON TOOK DIVE TO AVOID ‘OBLIVION’

Kumail Jaffer discovers the reason why a Premier League champion club decided to take a step down into a lower standard of competition

Prolific: Matty Gill, right, scored a fine century last season
PICTURES: Mark Fletcher

The whirlwind world of club cricket is prone to seeing the underdog rise and, unfortunately for Stockton CC, the mighty fall. Champions of the North East Regional Premier Cricket League (NEPL) in 2013, the proud club succumbed to relegation last season after a tight battle at the bottom.
The club will now play in the North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League (N...

Continue reading...

Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day!

SUBSCRIBE

Already a subscriber to our website? Login

Related Topics
 

Get the Inside Edge

- Sign Up to our weekly Cricket Newsletter
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Your subscription has been successful.

More in Club

  •

    Shah shows he’s still got it in Herts

    FORMER ENGLAND international Owais Shah showed his class with a brilliant 128 as Totteridge...

  •

    RESULTS

    ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per...

  •

    ECB Premier Leagues round-up

    Daddy hundred: Sam Arthurton hit a double-ton for Copdock & Old Ipswichian PICTURE: Alamy...

  •

    TABLES

    ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per...