Applications to enter the South Essex District Cricket Board’s twenty-20 knock-out cup for the 2012 season may now be submitted.  The competition is being administered by the Hon. Chairman of the South Essex District Cricket Board, Kevin Hymas.  Clubs may contact him by email by clicking here.

The South Essex District Cricket Board’s knock-out cup has its origins in Thurrock, when it was known as the Thurrock and District Knock-Out Cup, the silverware was – and still is – known as the Fred Dinmore Trophy. Its format was a very popular sixteen overs per side, with eight deliveries in an over.  On the History and Honours page, it is intended to review every final played, by providing a match report as well as the teams and scores. That will be quite an achievement – the event first took place in 1951.  More recently, in 2009, the competition format changed to be twenty overs per side to be more aligned with the modern-day twenty-20 format, though so far there has been a resistance to introduce coloured clothing.

If you have any records, scorebooks, photographs or information about this competition, would you please contact the SEDCB Secretary, Cliff Cansdale, who would be pleased to include on this website any details about the competition.