Botany Bay Cricket Club
Description
In the Championship Division of the Saracens Hertfordshire Cricket League. Botany Bay Cricket Club, located in the Green Belt to the north of London, was founded in 1899 as a village cricket team supported by the local gentry and landowner. The Club fielded a single team with fathers and sons of the local families playing side by side for more than half a century playing against local clubs. There were few significant achievements and low scoring matches were the norm. It took until 1937 for the first century to be scored at the ground, even then by a visitor.
Post Second World War, led by the ever enthusiastic Alec Callendar, the Club rebuilt itself building a pavilion with bar, growing to 2 then 3 sides, acquiring a second ground adjacent to the clubhouse, became a founder member of the Middlesex Cricketers League and growing in stature in the Middlesx and Hertforshire cricket scene.
Today the Club fields 3 sides in the Saracens Hertfordshire Cricket League and a friendly 4th XI and enters the annual National Village Cup competition
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