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Buoyed by the recent success enjoyed by the national team, cricket is enjoying a popular time at the top of the game and this is having a knock on effect at grass roots level. Nowhere is this better reflected than in the continued success achieved by Shrewsbury Cricket Club’s teams, with three national championships, 12 league titles, 18 cup wins and countless junior victories since the new millennium. Allied to this is the recent individual achievements of some of our players with no fewer than five earning full-time contracts with first-class county sides, ten being selected for Worcestershire’s Academy and 20 representing Shropshire’s Minor Counties side. More recently, James Taylor (England senior side) and (England U19s) have achieved national recognition. With four adult’s teams competing in league cricket on Saturdays and a 120 strong junior section boasting a total of 10 teams alongside both women’s and girl’s teams, Shrewsbury can arguably lay claim to being Shropshire’s premier cricket club. The men’s first team currently plays at the highest level they possibly can in the Birmingham and District Premier Cricket League Premier Division. Our second XI competes in division one of the reserve competition whilst our third and fourth teams continue to provide a stepping stone for the club’s talented youngsters to progress into the first eleven and beyond. As a club, we are looking to expand on this level of achievement and the growth of cricket in Shrewsbury by offering the chance for external organisations to become a part of the success that is Shrewsbury Cricket Club, through a range of sponsorship opportunities. In doing so, giving you the chance to associate your company and brand with some of Shropshire’s finest cricketers and a family oriented cricket club.

Three Shrewsbury CC players that have progressed to Ed Foster lifts the ECB National higher honours - England international James Taylor, Club Championship trophy following victory over Cambridge top, Worcestershire’s Joe Leach, middle, and his county Granta at Derby in 2011. teammate Ed Barnard, bottom, on England U19 duty. SPONSORING SPONSORING SHREWSBURY SHREWSBURY CRICKET CLUB CRICKET CLUB

Gold sponsor Silver sponsor Balcony/splay board Ground board Minimum duration: Three years Minimum duration: Three years Minimum duration: One year Minimum duration: One year The club’s top sponsorship package includes your Our second tier of sponsorship includes your logo printed Take prime, all year round, advertising space at Gain a presence around the ground at London Road by company’s logo displayed on the chest of all adult playing on the playing shirt back, between the shoulders, of all Shrewsbury Cricket Club either on London Road, at taking an advertising board alongside the playing surface shirts. adult players at the club. the entrance to the club, or positioned on the pavilion and benefit from visibility during all cricket matches and balcony, overlooking the ground. events at the club. Benefit from additional exposure including advertising at Additional features of this package include exposure in the club’s London Road ground and coverage in the local the club’s fixture card and on the club letterhead. media.

Bronze sponsor Coloured kit sponsor Match day sponsor Match ball sponsor Minimum duration: Two years Minimum duration: Three years Minimum duration: One match Minimum duration: One match The highlight of our bronze sponsorship package is the Sponsor the club’s new coloured kit, which is warn Our tailored match day sponsorship package is designed Match ball sponsorship is an attractive and cost effective positioning of your company’s logo on the club’s match increasingly throughout the season in and to give your company great exposure for your selected way of partnering with Shrewsbury Cricket Club - choose stumps which regularly appear in action shots in the League Cup competitions, as the look of the professional fixture as well as the opportunity to host your guests your fixture and entertain your guests at London Road. local press as well as being viewed by all spectators and game reaches the best of amateur cricket. during the match. players. SPONSORING SPONSORING SHREWSBURY SHREWSBURY CRICKET CLUB CRICKET CLUB

THE HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY CRICKET CLUB

Shrewsbury Cricket Club was formed on 15 May 1839 at a Birmingham League’s divisions playing in the Premier and National Club competitions in 2008 and 2010 respectively, win because of his football commitments whilst Ken meeting held at the Unicorn Inn, Wyle Cop, in Shrewsbury First Division respectively. The First XI won the Premier with the U15s reaching the last eight in 2011. Mulhearn, former goalkeeper for Manchester City, kept town centre. The Club’s first match was against the Division for the first time in 2010 and in doing so became in the 1983 cup winning side. “Mechanics” and was contested over two days, starting on one of only two Clubs in the history of the league to win Having progressed through the Shrewsbury youth the evening of 10 July 1839 and concluding the evening of all three Birmingham League competitions; the League section, as well as being part of the national title winning Following the Club’s success in the 2010 Birmingham 11 July 1839. The match was won by Shrewsbury. Knockout and League Twenty20 competition being the junior sides, Jack Shantry now represents county side Premier League season, the same side went one step other two. Worcestershire along with Joe Leach and Ed Barnard, further, equalling the achievements of the Club’s 1983 During this game Shrewsbury’s first connection with they join Nottinghamshire and England’s James Taylor as side. The 2011 ECB National Club Championship Final saw the world of football began. Shrewsbury’s John Charles In 1983, in the middle of a fifteen year period where current and former Shrewsbury players in the professional Shrewsbury Cricket Club crowned the best in the country Thring was influential, along with Henry de Winton, in Shrewsbury won the Shropshire League no fewer than game. Steve Gale, captain of the 1983 William Younger for the second time following a three wicket victory over the development of the modern codes of football in 1862. eleven times, the Club achieved its highest honour when it Cup winning side, now stands as a first class umpire. Cambridge Granta at Derby. Both Thring and de Winton were pupils of Shrewsbury won the then William Younger Cup (now the National Club School and the Club’s long connection with the school Cricket Championship) at Lord’s, defeating Hastings and St Cricket is not the only game the Club’s players have The first eleven side secured the club’s second commenced when they played each other in the Club’s Leonards Priory from Sussex. progressed to at a professional level with current England Birmingham Premier League title with a new top flight third ever match on 15 August 1839. goalkeeper Joe Hart a member of the national title record high of 378 points in 2013, and added a third title Shrewsbury has a thriving, successful and 120 member winning junior sides. Former Coventry City goalkeeper in 2015. The first recorded fixture at the Club’s current London strong junior section which sees many players progress Steve Ogrizovic missed the 1983 William Younger Cup Road home was in 1914 when Shrewsbury hosted Wem through the ranks into the Club’s senior teams. In addition Cricket Club. From 1957 onwards, the ground has staged a number of players have progressed to recognition with numerous Minor Counties Championship and Knockout first class counties in recent years. Following the 2011 matches as well as two International Cricket Council Bunbury Festival, then the Club’s U15 captain, Ed Barnard, Trophy matches. In addition fixtures in the Benson and was named England’s U15 captain. NEXT STEPS... Hedges Cup and the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy have also taken place at the ground. Twice Shrewsbury’s junior sides have won on the national If you’re interested in being part of Shropshire’s most successful ever cricket club then we’d like to hear from you. stage with the 2000 U13 side and 2002 U15 side winning The Club, which holds the ECB Clubmark accreditation the ECB’s national competitions, the only time the This brochure details a number of opportunities attractive to potential partners, but if you have any ideas as to and is an ECB Focus Club, currently runs four senior sides same set of players have done so in the competition’s how your relationship with Shrewsbury Cricket Club could work, please do get in touch using the below details. on a Saturday, with the first and second teams joining history. Notably, in 2009 the Club’s youth teams won all Ed Foster the Birmingham & District Premier Cricket League in the Shropshire County Cups, with the U15s now having 07754 391829 2001 after the Club won the Shropshire Premier League. retained the County Cup from 2006 to 2011 and teams The First and Second XIs have progressed through the have reached the last twelve of the ECB U13 and U15