CLUB HISTORY
Kirby Muxloe Cricket Club is situated at the Sports and Village Club on Ratby Lane.
Apparently various sites around the village had been used by the cricket team in their early days but according to our oldest club members the recreation ground was where the cricket team had played for as many years as they could remember prior to the move in 1979 to our present site.
In 1981 the club were invited to join the recently formed Leicestershire Club Cricket League and remain members to the present day.
Before joining the league in 1981 the club had built up a strong set of friendly fixtures, running two Saturday sides and a full set of Sunday fixtures.
Club records from 1954 show that the 1st XI played 22 Saturday fixtures, The "A" Team played 20 games and there were14 Sunday fixtures. We still meet a few of our opponents from that time. Teams such as Barkby, Ivanhoe, Market Bosworth and Bitteswell are also members of the League. Many of the others from the 1954 fixture card, company teams like Symingtons, Bentleys, Corahs, Briggs Tanners, Mellor Bromley and British United no longer exist.
By 1977 more of the friendly fixtures were with village teams like Newtown Linford, Billesdon, Ashby, and our neighbours Ratby, all of which would soon, like ourselves, be playing in the rapidly growing Leicestershire League.
For many years the annual Capey Cup match was played between Kirby Muxloe and Barkby, who were the opponents in our oldest recorded fixture.
The Geary Cup was another annual, one off match, played against our local rivals Ratby. Both of these fixtures were always taken very seriously, but normally played in good spirits although there were odd occasions when that wasn't the case!!
The Louis Freeman Cup was an annual knock out competition organised by Kirby Muxloe involving eight invited teams. Leicester Banks and Wigston were regular winners although Kirby did manage wins in 1989 and 1991.
Sadly non of these cup competitions are now played.
PAST PRESIDENTS
Mr D. E. Cameron
Mr L. Freeman
Mr J. C. Heighton
Mr M. G. Freeman
The President's Day fixture was at one time the most important date on the Club calender. The President's team, to play against KMCC 1st XI, consisted of invited players from various clubs around the county and when possible, a player from Leicestershire County Cricket Club. The game would start around 11am with some serious cricket being played. At 1pm a leisurely lunch would be taken where the odd glass of wine would be sampled. An afternoon of less serious cricket led up to the tea interval, after which the result didn't really matter and everyone finished in the bar with more food, drink and laughter.
CLUB HONOURS
1987 1st XI Division 2 Champions
1992 2nd XI Division 6 Runners-Up (Promoted)
2002/03 1st XI 28 games undefeated from June 2002 until July 2003
2004 2nd XI Division 7 Runners-Up (Promoted)
2008 2nd XI Division 7 Runners-Up (Promoted)
BEST INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES
BOWLING: Brian Lissaman 10 for 33 Friendly Fixture Vs Evington Waverley 1973
BATTING: Bernie Poole 146 n.o. 2nd XI Vs Gracedieu Park 2004
PRESIDENT'S DAY FIXTURE CARD (1981)
PHOTOGRAPHS OF KMCC TEAMS FROM DIFFERENT PERIODS
Move curser over photo to see players names, where known.
An early team photo
Unknown date 1948 or earlier
Back Row: second from left L Russell
Middle Row: second from left B Cullen, second from right B Cragg
Back Row: G Ellerway, S Kirkpatrick, H Fanton, J Sharp, B Cragg, H Dickman(Ump)
Front Row: R Cooper, W Cullen, F Brown, J Beazley, G Barkby(Scorer), P Cooper
About 1950
1976
Back: G Bird (Scorer), S Tavener, D Dickinson, S Hitchman, P Dickinson, M Bradford, M Sowman, ??,
A Hudson (Ump) N Loxley Jnr.
Front: A West (Treasurer) A Roberts, Martin Freeman (Chairman) John Freeman (Cpt) Jack Heighton,
Ron Cullen, N Loxley
KMCC 1979 in front of the original pavilion at the Sports and Village Club.
Back: Brian Lissaman, Tony Webster, Richard Dale, Chris Ward, John Waters, Nigel Loxley, Martin Bird
Front: Alan Clarke, David Stanley, Jack Heighton (Ump) Martin Freeman (Cpt) Dick Smart, John Batty