The History Of The Club

Bretforton Cricket Club was formed around the turn of the 20th century so cricket has been played in the village for more than 100 years.

The earliest score book that can be found is from the early thirties. The scores in those days were low, due to poor wickets and outfields with scores rarely getting above one hundred in an innings.

Before moving to their present ground at the end of the 1940s, they played their home games in a field on the outskirts of the village towards Badsey.

With a new ground, most of the players in the 1950s were from the village itself, which included the current Club President Ray Cleaver.

At the end of the fifties, the Club folded only to be reformed three of four years later by more young men from the village.

In the late seventies, they had their first purpose built changing facilities and club room in the shape of the sports club, which was built with money raised by the village itself and was shared with the Football Club.
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The Cricket Club then in 1989 entered its most exciting era to date, driven on by the hard work of Richard Harris, who was then secretary and groundsman, they decided to play league cricket, joining the Morganite Crucible League. After finishing 3rd and then 2nd, they won it in their 3rd season again with mainly players from the village itself. This was followed by a decision to change leagues and enter the Cotswold Hills League, which is the league they presently play in.

After winning promotion to the Cotswold Hill Premier Division, Bretforton enjoyed a great spell winning the league in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012 and quite recently the 2020 COVID cup.

We currently run two senior mens teams that play in the Cotswold Hills League and we also enter the national village knockout. The first team is in the premier division and the second team are currently in division six.

We are also looking at running a ladies team for the 2022 season. If you are interested please contact Dave Hicks (details are on the 'contact us' page. 

In the Junior Section we currently run an U11 team. We are very proud of the fact we brought Daryl through our youth section on to the 1st Team and then on to being Captain of WCCC.

Bretforton are a very friendly and well supported club right from the very hardworking team leaders to the groundsman, Bozy Harris and scorer, Keith Grove.