Aston Cricket Club
Founded
in 1860, the Club played mainly friendly cricket until entering the Border
League founded in 1966. Before joining the League, the Club’s main claim to
fame was winning the Butterley Cup in 1955 with a team that included a one-arm
bowler. During the late 1950’s the former Derbyshire captain and secretary,
D.B. Carr lived in Aston and occasionally played for the Club, before moving to
on to become assistant secretary of the MCC in 1962. He later returned to the
Club to open the new pavilion on 1970.
On
joining the League, the Club made an immediate impact, being joint winners of
the Section B in their first season. However, the Club’s greatest success came
in the mid 70’s when in successive years, they won Section C and finally
Premier 1 in 1977.
Unfortunately,
the team began to break up shortly after this run of success and not until the
1990’s were the fortunes revived. Having been relegated to Division 3 in 1989,
they won the division in 1990 and were promoted again the following year. Most
of the decade was then spent in the Premiere division but the Club has never
been in one of the League’s favourites and has been relegated on non playing
grounds in two of the last three seasons and next year will be playing in what
is now division 3A of the Derbyshire County League. As a result of these
relegations, the Club has lost many of its established players but drastic
actions have been taken in the last few months, which should see an early,
return to the higher divisions.
The
Club’s 2nd XI entered the League in 1982 and were defeated when
winning the Division 9 in 1985 and repeated this feat when winning Division 4C
in 1993, however, following relegation in 1989, the team is back in Division 4C.
As part of its planned progress, the Club has entered a 3rd XI in the League next season and is also running Junior teams at under 11, 13 and 14.