The North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League, commonly abbreviated to NYSD, is the top-level competition for recreational club cricket in the north of Yorkshire and south of Durham, England. The league was founded as long ago as 1892, the first competition was held in the following year.
Since 2012 the league has been a designated ECB Premier League, and the league champions qualify to take part in the Yorkshire Championship, together with the winners of the Bradford Premier League, Yorkshire Premier League North, Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League and Huddersfield Premier Cricket League.
The league chose to play an official, if shortened, competition after most ECB Premier Leagues formally cancelled the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is a successful league in the country, in national inter-league competitive cricket, having won the LCC National inter-league competition (latterly known as the Presidents Trophy) on no fewer than 12 occasions. The League hold the record for the longest sequence of consecutive titles (7 from 1988 to 1994) and the longest sequence of consecutive victories (36). Within that competition they hold the record for the highest total recorded (425–6 in 45 overs v the NEPL at Marske in 2010). In 2018 Richmondshire Cricket Club won the ECB National Club Championship.
League members : Bedale, East Harsley, Great Ayton, Guisborough, Maltby, Marske, Marton, Middlesbrough, Normanby Hall, Northallerton, Redcar, Richmondshire, Saltburn, Skelton Castle, Stokesley, Thornaby, Whitby and Yarm : Barnard Castle, Billingham Synthonia, Bishop Auckland, Blackhall, Darlington, Darlington Railway Athletic, Hartlepool, Newton Aycliffe, Norton, Preston, Rockliffe Park, Seaton Carew, Sedgefield, Shildon Railway, Stockton and Wolviston
Winners # Club Years by century 19th 20th 21st 22 Darlington 1896 1904, 1906, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1941, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1962, 1977, 1985, 1987, 1990 2014 17 Guisborough 1895 1905, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1942, 1972, 1976, 1981, 1989, 1996 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 12 Middlesbrough 1919, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1970, 1993, 1994 2007, 2008, 2010, 2022 11 Norton 1898 1902, 1903, 1914, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1998 10 Hartlepool 1899 1900, 1901, 1908, 1913, 1928, 1964 (as West Hartlepool), 1978, 1982, 1988 (as Hartlepool) 8 Redcar 1894 1924, 1927, 1931, 1952, 1965, 1991, 1992 9 Richmondshire 1995 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2026 8 Saltburn 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1979 2000, 2005, 2023 5 Bishop Auckland 1934, 1966, 1973, 1980, 1999 5 Normanby Hall 1940, 1947, 1956, 1963, 1997 3 Barnard Castle 2016, 2018, 2025 3 Blackhall 1933, 1936, 1939 3 Darlington Railway Athletic 1929, 1932, 1944 3 Stockton 1897 1948, 1975 3 Thornaby 1943, 1945, 1986 2 Great Ayton 2006, 2017 2 Marske 1971, 1984 2 Marton 2009, 2011 1 Billingham Synthonia 1983 1 Constable Burton Inaugural
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Premier division since ECB Premier League status
Key Gold Champions Blue Left League Red Relegated
+ Performance by season, from 2012 Club 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Barnard Castle 8 8 5 4 1 3 1 3 7 2 3 4 6 1 2 Billingham Synthonia 14 13 6 9 3 12 Bishop Auckland 12 9 9 10 9 Darlington 2 2 1 8 3 8 5 11 4 6 11 10 Darlington Railway Athletic 10 10 8 3 Great Ayton 3 4 4 2 2 1 2 9 6 10 6 12 11 Guisborough 7 5 6 9 8 11 Hartlepool 9 7 7 6 9 10 8 8 3 4 5 3 3 4 5 Marske 13 12 5 4 6 11 4 10 12 12 Marton 5 3 8 13 4 7 2 4 7 11 5 2 8 Middlesbrough 4 6 11 7 7 7 10 10 2 9 1 5 8 7 7 Normanby Hall 10 13 10 12 12 11 12 Norton 11 10 12 12 Redcar 9 10 14 Richmondshire 1 1 2 1 5 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 Saltburn 10 13 5 5 10 1 4 9 11 Seaton Carew 9 12 6 9 9 12 Sedgefield 12 12 14 Stockton 9 8 2 6 4 Stokesley 6 11 3 3 11 5 4 7 11 6 8 7 7 5 6 Thornaby 11 14 6 5 8 8 7 11 References
References
External links Official play-cricket website