Sutton-In-Craven Cricket Club

Trip Down Memory Lane

Sutton-In-Craven Cricket Club was formed around 1902 by the Vicar, playing friendly matches.
By 1904, under the Rev A R Light, they joined the "SKIPTON JUNIOR CRICKET LEAGUE".
The team was known as Sutton Church, and to play for the team the members
had to be church-goers. In 1933 the team, which was now called Sutton Parish, joined the
West Bradford League. Team membership had been thrown open to all
men in the parish. They re-joined the Craven League in 1940 but after 1941 the team was
not in the league owing to the Second World War, with the shortage of players etc. Sutton Cricket Club, as it was now known, re-joined the
Craven League in 1946 and shared the championship with J Nelson's, and in 1947 won the WYNN Cup.
During the war the cricket ground was used for friendly matches between local factories, and the Home Guard and ARP Wardens. Although not winning the WYNN Cup since 1947, the club has won the Keighley Cup a few times -the first team in 1994 and the second team
in 1984 and 1997.
Now the club is still going strong with two senior and two junior teams still playing
on the same ground after 100 years.
In September 2013 the club purchased the freehold of the ground thereby securing its future use as a cricket field.
In 2016 the club built a brand new pavilion and changing rooms.
The club went from having the oldest changing rooms in the league built
in the 1930’s to having a pavilion that offers one of the best facilities in the league.