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The number of competitions has changed over the years, and
after the introduction of grade/rating-limited competitions, the cut-offs
have changed from time to time. These competition changes have resulted
in reassignment of trophies, so that the counties whose names are engraved on
a given trophy did not necessarily all win the same competition, but rather a
series of successive competitions for which the trophy was used or
retrospectively engraved. The category headings below are placed
where changes occurred in the BCF/ECF or NCCU categories. The columns
correspond to the NCCU trophy applied to the competition in the column
concerned.
The introduction by the ECF of grade-limited competitions
will have been occasioned in part by increased non-participation by weaker
counties who were demoralised by continually being outgunned by the stronger
counties. This was foreshadowed in the NCCU when Durham, who had
earlier dropped out, where readmitted for 1989-90 fielding only a “second”
team, without a first team!
Absence of winners’ names from the 2nd-team championship
prior to 1968 may be attributable in part to there being no such competition
in the earlier years, but may later be attributable to there simply being no
trophy in use at the time. The same principle applies to other
“missing” winners; either there was no competition or there was no
trophy. There are other “grey” areas (literally grey in the
chart). See below.
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Competition
Categories in Use
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1901-1981
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1st Team
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2nd Team
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1982-1992
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1st Team
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2nd Team
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Under 125 (?)
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1993-2009
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Open
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Under 175
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Under 150
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Under 125
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Under 100
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2010‑2021
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Open
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Under 180
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Under 160
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Under 140
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Under 120
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Under 100
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2022-
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Open
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Under 2050
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Under 1850
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Under 1650
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Under 1450
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Moore Trophy
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Jones Shield
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Walls Trophy
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Pennine Shield
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O’Hara Trophy
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U-100 Shield
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Year
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Championship
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1901
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Lancashire
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1902
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Lancashire
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1903
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Lancashire
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1904
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Lancashire
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1905
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Yorkshire
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1906
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Lancashire
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1907
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Lancashire
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(ECF Champ. Introduced)
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1908
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Yorkshire
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1909
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Lancashire
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1910
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Cheshire & Yorkshire (tie)
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1911
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Lancashire
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1912
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Lancashire
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1913
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Yorkshire
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1914
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Lancashire
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1915
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Yorkshire
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1916-18
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First World War
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1919
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Lancashire
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1920
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Yorkshire
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1921
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Lancashire
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1922
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Lancashire
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1923
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Lancashire
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1924
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Yorkshire
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1925
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Yorkshire
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1926
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Lancashire
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1927
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Yorkshire
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1928
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Lancashire
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1929
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Yorkshire
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1930
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Lancashire
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1931
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Lancashire
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1932
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Northumberland & Durham
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1933
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Lancashire
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1934
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Northumberland
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1935
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Lancashire
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1936
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Yorkshire
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1937
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Lancashire
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1938
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Lancashire
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1939
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Lancashire
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1940-45
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Second World War
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1946
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Cheshire
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1947
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Lancashire
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1948
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Lancashire
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1949
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Northumberland
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1950
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Lancashire
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1951
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Cheshire
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1952
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Lancashire
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1953
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Lancashire
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1954
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Yorkshire
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1955
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Yorkshire
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1956
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Cheshire
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1957
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Yorkshire
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1958
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Yorkshire
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1959
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Lancashire
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1960
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Lancashire
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1961
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Lancashire
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1962
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Yorkshire
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1963
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Yorkshire
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1964
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Lancashire
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1965
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Cheshire
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1966
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Lancashire
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1967
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Lancashire
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Championship (1st Team)
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2nd Team (NCCU)
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1968
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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1969
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Yorkshire
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Cheshire & NW
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1970
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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1971
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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1972
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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1973
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Cheshire
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Lancashire
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1974
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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1975
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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1976
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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1977
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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1978
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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1979
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Lancs. & Yorks. (tie)
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Cheshire & NW
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1980
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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1981
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Championship (1st Team)
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2nd Team (BCF)
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1982
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Yorkshire
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Northumberland
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1983
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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1984
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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1985
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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1986
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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3rd Team
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1987
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Cheshire & NW
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Lancashire
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Cheshire & NW
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1988
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Cheshire & NW
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1989
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Merseyside
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1990
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Northumberland
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Northumberland
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Cheshire & NW
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1991
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Cheshire & NW
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Under 130
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1992
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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?
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Open
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Under-175
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Under-150
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Under 125
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1993
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire *
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Lancashire
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1994
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Cleveland
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Cleveland
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1995
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire *
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Cheshire & NW
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Under 100
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1996
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Cleveland
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Cleveland
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1997
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Cheshire & NW
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1998
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Lancashire
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Merseyside
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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1999
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Merseyside
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2000
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Merseyside
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2001
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Cleveland
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2002
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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2003
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Cheshire & NW
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2004
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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2005
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Merseyside
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2006
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Cumbria
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Lancashire
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Merseyside
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2007
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Cleveland
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Lancashire
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2008
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Cleveland
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Lancashire
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2009
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Open
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Under 180
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Under 160
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Under 140
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Under 120
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Under 100
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2010
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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2011
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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2012
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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2013
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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2014
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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(uncertain)
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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2015
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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2016
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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2017
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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2018
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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(not completed)
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Yorkshire
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Merseyside
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Lancashire
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2019
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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(not completed)
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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2020
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Lancashire
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2021
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(not held)
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(not held)
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(not held)
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(not held)
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(not held)
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(not held)
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Open
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Under 2050
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Under 1850
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Under 1650
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Under 1450
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2022
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Northumberland
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Lancashire
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Yorkshire
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Grey Areas
Sometimes, when a trophy is introduced, winners from the period
predating the trophy are engraved on it, and in at least one case these
earlier winners were in fact winners of a different competition! Thus,
the Under 175 Shield has engraving for 1968 onwards, although the Under 175
competition did not start until 1992-93! The winners prior to 1993 are clearly
winners of the second teams’ competition, which is well documented as
existing and was not grade-limited. (The writer was a regular player in
the combined 1st-team and 2nd-team fixtures of the period.) Was there
never a 2nd-team trophy? Was it lost? If so, were the 2nd team
winners “back-engraved” on a newly procured Under-175 trophy?
Sources are not wholly consistent, which is not too
surprising! There are primarily three sources from which to compile
lists:
1) secretarial records of one sort or another (usually not
available from too far back),
2) engraving on trophies (occasionally wrong!)
3) the lists in the NCCU Centenary booklet (easiest to
use) which presumably, as regards earlier years, was primarily transcribed
from trophies.
Also there are individual counties’ records, where
available.
Occasional errors are inevitable, considering the
pressures or tedium of some processes.
The U-125 winners for 1993 and 1995 differ in different
sources. This clouded by the fact that the BCF introduced an U-130
section for 1991-92, only to replace it with the U-125 from 1992-93
onwards. Was there an Under-130 competition in 1991-92, and if so, who
won?
Something not reflected above is that the BCF had
initiated a “Minor” section for 1971-72, and this was open both to second
teams and also first/only teams of “weak” counties (ones which had not played
in the Open section for five years, or something like that). Then, for
1981-82, this was replaced “by both a Second Teams’ competition, and a
separate Minor Counties’ championship open just to the “weak” counties.
The NCCU never had a Minor Counties’ competition. This might explain the
confusion regarding early U-125 winners.
For 2014 in the Under-140, the earlier website carried a
blank, and the secretary’s “calendar” gives “n/a”, yet the 2014 AGM minutes
record Lancashire as winners.
The U-150 trophy lacks a 1993 engraving but the Centenary
booklet gives Lancashire’s name, and for 1995 the trophy records Cleveland’s
name whereas the booklet gives Lancashire as does the previous version of the
website.
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