We started in 1988 as 'Aural Sculpture'. We soon switched our name to Garden Cricket Club (c'mon the Flowers!), in recognition of President Doug Allum's back garden, where we learnt our cricket (six and out; four for hitting the terrace wall and two for the fence; watch out for the crazy muthas!) We renamed ourselves Chigwell Cricket Club in 1998 when we decided to grow up.
Starting out at Ray Park in Woodford, we have, since 1996, played at the wondrous Old Chigwellians ground in Chigwell, wearing our distinctive green and gold. This excellent cricket venue has one of the best batting tracks in the county, lovingly maintained by Jim Sherwood. We have a bar and more dressing room space than you can shake a stick at.
In 2008 we joined the Essex Sunday League, thus completing our long transition to, ahem, 'maturity'. Or so we thought. At the end of 2008, we left the Essex Sunday League and co-founded the Middlesex and Essex Invitation League with some like-minded clubs from, well, Middlesex and Essex. We won the League in its first three seasons.
