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Handsworth Cricket
Club (HCC) was formed from two Handsworth park teams, Rangers CC and Continental
CC, initially calling themselves “Continental Rangers CC”, having joined
together to play club cricket in Handsworth Park. This amalgamation
enabled the playing of Warwickshire league standard cricket for the first
time in that Park in 1999, before changing the name to Handsworth CC in
2001. Placed at that time in Division 5 of the Warwickshire Cricket
League, HCC shows its metal by rapidly advancing to Division 1 in 2007
and now to the Premier League in 2008.
HCC runs three
leagues sides on Saturdays, a women Midland
league team on some Sundays, and three youth teams. HCC also played in
the Victoria Mutual Cup, a national knockout cricket competition played
between Caribbean-led cricket teams or clubs.
HCC’s home ground, owned
by Birmingham City Council though jointly maintained, is located in Handsworth Park,
Birmingham.
Understandably HCC is necessarily a community-orientated club with its
general committee accountable to its total membership. It therefore seeks
to extend both its playing and social membership, making use of its small
but adequate clubhouse with its licensed bar.
Efforts are being made to extend its Sunday fixtures,
and to facilitate better management arrangements in using, improving and
maintaining the facilities. Handsworth
Park cricket’s
potential is relevant to the local community. And so if you are local to Birmingham, capable and/or interested in Caribbean style cricket, why not click “Membership
Form” (opposite) and apply for membership – or just visit the ground
particularly on Saturdays during the summer? For as HCC’s motto optimistically
says
“Forward ever, Backward
never”!
HCC
founded on the efforts and
successes of
Rangers CC and Continental CC
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Officers at Work
Sponsored our Women Team at
Cricket Week, Malvern
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