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KCB Finals 2012
NATIONAL INDOOR SIX - A - SIDE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2012
KENT COUNTY FINALS - KENT CRICKET ACADEMY - CANTERBURY
SUNDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2012 Click Here for draw sheet
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Thanks to Eric Banning for the images below:
Pegasus team 2005
Thanks to Jo Mitchell for the images below:
Westbrook 2008-2009
Westbrook A 2008-2009
Umpires Neville & Eric
TICL Roots
Indoor cricket came to Thanet in March 1976 when an exhibition match between a team from Kent County Cricket Club led by Brian Luckhurst and a side selected from members of the Thanet Works League was played at the Ramsgate School Sports Hall. Local clubs were invited to send two observers and Les Lenham the National Cricket Association`s coach for the South of England came to explain the rules and act as umpire. The evening was an outstanding success and efforts then turned to forming a Thanet Indoor League. Eighteen teams applied to join for the inaugural season and the first competitive game was played on 4th October 1976 between Hoverlloyd and Rediffusion. The teams were placed into two groups by ballot with the top two sides in each playing off to produce a champion . In addition there was a K.O.Cup competition. Promotion and relegation was introduced in 1978 with twenty four sides involved. The growth continued with a fourth division in 1980, a fifth in 1985 and the ultimate of seven divisions all with eight teams by 1991. The Pfizer Sports Hall was completed in 1979 and for the next twenty years the various Pfizer teams used it as a venue for their home games. For a short period in the early nineties (1991-93) the newly opened Sandwich Sports Centre was used for a small number of matches but from 1999 when what is now named the East Kent Sports School was upgraded with the help of a major Lottery grant all matches have been played at this single venue.
Of the original eighteen founder members six, Broadstairs, Minster, Northdown, Pfizer, Sandwich and Westgate have played throughout the period while Electric (1982) and Margate(2005) have only missed one season. In total 104 teams from 50 parent clubs have been members of the league for varying periods since 1976. Several of these, generally playing in the lower divisions, have been but a change of club name and not the playing personal. Three teams played for just a single season, Hirst (1977), Sandwich F (1999) and Deal Victorians (2007). As would be expected Sandwich and Broadstairs have fielded the largest number of sides with seven and six respectively while Hartsdonians have fielded five followed by Cliftonville, Pfizer and Westgate with four each. In addition to the senior set-up a Junior League was established in 19?? and today teams in the Under11, 13 & 15 age categories are all involved.
There can be no argument that the Broadstairs first team is far and away the most successful side in the League`s 32 year history having secured the Division One title on twenty occasions. There nearest challengers are Sandwich (4) and Pfizer (3). The winner of this title goes forward each year to represent the Thanet District in a County K.O. Competition the winner of which goes forward as County champions in to a national level where the final stages are played at Lords. The overall strength of the Thanet Indoor League can probably best be gauged by our success at this higher level. Broadstairs were the national champions in 1997, runners-up in 2001 and 2005 reached the Semi-final stage in 2000 and, in addition have won the County championship on no less than ten occasions. In addition to their consistent achievements two other clubs have been crowned County champions. Sandwich in 1994 when they went on to reach the semi-finals of the national competition and Pfizer in 1999.
