Covering Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk the XL Club will enjoy more than 24 games during summer 2008 against schools and clubs across the region.
The Eastern Counties is one of 12 national districts under the central administration of The Forty Club, which was founded in 1936. Its aim then and still is "to take cricket to the schools."
As a wandering club, the Forty Club does not own a ground, but enjoys a membership of about 3200 cricketers nationwide plus a growing number overseas.
XL fell to their first defeat at Wymondham College in a number of years. XL were bowled out for 167 in the 56th over with the top five batsmen all getting in but with no-one going on to register a hal

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today confirmed a new Twenty20 competition for ECB Premier League clubs called Cockspur Club Twenty20. Cockspur Rum already sponsor the 45-over ECB National C

