Cookley Cricket Club was founded in 1869.
Our records show that the club achieved its first honour in 1927 when it won the Kidderminster & District League’s first division.
It continued to be members of the league, fielding an A and B team for most of the 1900s. From 1972 to 1983 the first team were virtually unbeatable and carried off the league title every year for an 11-year period.
For nine of those years the team also took home the league’s Charity Cup silverware. During the 70s the team regularly won the league’s Edwin Read Cup while its second team also picked up honours, winning its division on a number of occasions as well as the Fred Yates Trophy.
In 1977 Cookley carried off the ultimate honour winning the Haig Whisky Village Knock-Out Trophy for village clubs at Lord’s by beating Lindal Moor of Cumbria in the final by 28 runs. The team, led by Mick Hopkins, whose score of 214 the following year stood as the highest individual score in the village competition for many years, had endured a nail-biting passage to the final cheered on by around 3,000 Cookley supporters making the trip to the capital. The historic win really putting Cookley on the map with the club becoming the first from the county to pick up national honours.
