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Browse every historical article, player profile, scorecard account, source guide and policy page in the Langleybury Cricket Archive.
Every public article and reference page in the Langleybury Cricket Archive, grouped by subject. Start with a collection or go straight to a particular match, person or document.
The history of Langleybury Cricket Club
- The history of Langleybury Cricket Club — Explore Langleybury’s early years, national cup campaigns, 1996 Lord’s final and community history, with the evidence behind each story.
- When did Langleybury Cricket Club begin? — The evidence for 1950, 1952 and earlier cricket at Langleybury House, explained without merging conflicting accounts into an invented founding story.
- Langleybury in the National Village competition — Trace Langleybury’s documented National Village ties from 1972, including three established semi-finals and the long route towards the 1996 Lord’s final.
- The 1996 Lord’s final: Langleybury v Caldy — The date, result, players and scorecard of Langleybury’s 1996 National Village final against Caldy, with the supporters’ story and source distinctions.
- Hertfordshire champions in 1998 — Langleybury’s 1998 Hertfordshire Cricket League title, the evidence that confirms it, and Paul O’Reilly’s ten-wicket performance in that season.
- The club beyond the boundary — Langleybury’s social history: celebrity cricket, fundraising dinners, reunions, quizzes and community work documented across several decades.
A timeline of Langleybury Cricket Club
- A timeline of Langleybury Cricket Club — A sourced chronology of Langleybury’s origins, cup campaigns, people, records and community events, with uncertain dates clearly identified.
The ground at Hunton Bridge
- The ground at Hunton Bridge — A history of Langleybury’s ground, pavilions and playing facilities, using club accounts, council assessments and local records.
- Pavilions, pitches and practice nets — Follow the documented development of Langleybury’s pavilions and playing facilities from the early 1950s to the 2019 assessment.
- Langleybury House and the cricket ground’s setting — Langleybury House, the local landscape and surviving archive leads: historical context without confusing the estate’s age with the cricket club’s foundation.
The people in Langleybury’s story
- The people in Langleybury’s story — Players, presidents, groundsmen, scorers and supporters whose contributions appear in Langleybury’s surviving historical record.
- Alan Bunn (1922–2002): service to Langleybury — Alan Bunn’s early work for Langleybury, committee offices and life membership, reconstructed from the club’s archived notice of 30 April 2002.
- Steven Finn: from Langleybury to England — Steven Finn’s own memories of Langleybury, his early club records and the documented route through West Herts and Middlesex to England.
- Gordon Riddick: player, groundsman and president — Gordon Riddick’s documented playing honours, work on the ground, club roles and the memorial event announced after his death in 2018.
- Norman Harold Chase and the pavilion — Norman Chase’s support for Langleybury, presidency from 1998 to 2015, club awards and the pavilion named in his honour.
- Paul O’Reilly’s two ten-wicket performances — Paul O’Reilly’s 10/43 for Langleybury in 1998 and 10/38 for Hertfordshire exactly a year later, kept distinct with dated evidence.
- Cliff Spinks: Langleybury and Hertfordshire — Cliff Spinks’s Langleybury years, notable club aggregates and county record, drawn from the club tribute and Hertfordshire’s official obituary.
- Players, officers and volunteers in the records — A dated register of Langleybury’s players, officers, scorers and volunteers, with selected awards from the club’s published tables.
Cricket, teams and records
- Cricket, teams and records — Explore Langleybury’s published playing records, cup honours, junior pathway and women’s cricket, with dated sources and clear statistical scope.
- Published Langleybury cricket records — Selected batting, bowling, partnerships, fielding and team totals from Langleybury’s published records through 2025, with scope and source notes.
- Shahzad Malik’s 403 for Langleybury — What is established about Shahzad Malik’s 403 against Middlesex Tamils in 2005, the 515 partnership and 563/2 total, and which details remain disputed.
- Langleybury’s league and cup honours — A sourced guide to Langleybury’s league championship and local cup honours, including the detailed 2018 Heath Park Cup final.
- Colts, junior cricket and the Development XI — Langleybury’s junior cricket history, from the 1988 Colts to Steven Finn’s early records and later age-group provision.
- Women’s cricket and the Pinot Grigio Eleven — The documented story of Langleybury’s Pinot Grigio Eleven, friendly cricket, the 2013 memorial match and charity fundraising.
Explore the archive
- Explore the archive — A guide to Langleybury’s surviving programmes, scorecards, photographs, broadcast references and historical website records.
- Inside the 1988 Luther Blissett programme — What the Langleybury programme for 15 July 1988 reveals about the club, its people and facilities, and why proposed teams are not confirmed playing XIs.
- Langleybury on BBC Going Places in 1975 — The BBC listing for Barry Norman’s report on Langleybury v Isleham, with the match date, broadcast date and limits of the surviving evidence.
- Photographs, scorebooks and archive collections — Where Langleybury’s historical photographs and records can be found, how their dates should be read, and what is needed for responsible reuse.
Sources and research notes
- Sources and research notes — Explore the club records, programmes, scorecards, interviews, public documents and archive leads behind this independent Langleybury history.