"and the United Arab Emirates. Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2008 Yorkshire County Cricket Club started the 2008 season in the top division of the LV= County Championship and in the second division of the NatWest Pro40 league. The team also competed in the Friends Provident Trophy and the Twenty20 Cup. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Yorkshire were penalised two points for fielding an ineligible player against Nottinghamshire, thus Glamorgan Dragons qualified as the second-best third-placed team. Yorkshire began their preparation for the 2008 season in the United Arab Emirates, playing four games in the Pro Arch Trophy. They won the tournament, finishing ahead"
"lifted the crown for the first time. Dindigul Dragons Dindigul Dragons is a Twenty20 cricket team representing the city of Dindigul in the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL). The team is owned by Srinivasan H R, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, TAKE Solutions. The team is coached by former Indian cricketer M. Venkataramana. Ravichandran Ashwin is the captain of the franchise. Srinivasan H R, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, TAKE Solutions was the 7th highest bidder and he chose the district Dindigul and the team was named as Dindigul Dragons. The launch of the Dindigul Dragons took place on Monday,"
"Dindigul Dragons Dindigul Dragons is a Twenty20 cricket team representing the city of Dindigul in the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL). The team is owned by Srinivasan H R, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, TAKE Solutions. The team is coached by former Indian cricketer M. Venkataramana. Ravichandran Ashwin is the captain of the franchise. Srinivasan H R, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, TAKE Solutions was the 7th highest bidder and he chose the district Dindigul and the team was named as Dindigul Dragons. The launch of the Dindigul Dragons took place on Monday, August 22, 2016 at the NPR College"
"Dragons (rugby union) Dragons () are one of the four professional rugby union regional teams in Wales. They are owned by the Welsh Rugby Union and play their home games at Rodney Parade, Newport and at other grounds around the region. They play in the Pro14 league, the Anglo-Welsh Cup and the European Rugby Champions Cup/European Rugby Challenge Cup. The region they represent covers an area of southeast Wales including Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen with a total population approaching 600,000 and they are affiliated with a number of semi-professional and amateur clubs throughout the area, including Welsh"
"which had first-class status from 2017 onwards. In October 2017, they lost their opening fixture of the tournament, against Mis Ainak Region, by 262 runs. They also compete in the Afghan Shpageeza Cricket League Twenty20 competition (which will have Twenty20 status from 2017) using the name Band-e-Amir Dragons. They also play in the Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament, which was granted List A status from 2017. Squad for the 2017 Shpageeza Cricket League Band-e-Amir Dragons Band-e-Amir Dragons ( ""Band-e-Amīr Khāmārān / Shāmārān""; ) or Band-e-Amir Region is one of six first-class cricket teams in Afghanistan. In the 2017"
"Dragons 8-7. Under the Auckland Rugby League's ""district scheme"", which lasted until 1963, Otahuhu, Papakura and Papatoetoe combined to form ""Southern Districts"" and Mount Albert and Point Chevalier formed ""Western Districts"". Ponsonby refused to amalgamate with Richmond and instead was relegated into the second division. Tommy Baxter was the Western United's player-coach and the side also included vice-captain Henry Maxwell, Laurie Olliff and Don Hammond. Marist won the Wellington Rugby League's Appleton Shield. Papanui won the Canterbury Rugby League's Massetti Cup. Marist included Pat and Jim White. Jock Butterfield was the captain-coach of Brunner in the West Coast Rugby League"
"Craig Spearman's 39 was the highest score as Gloucestershire Steelbacks took the victory with 17 balls to spare. Warwickshire (2pts) beat Glamorgan (0pts) by 54 runs Warwickshire Bears won their first Twenty20 match of the season, the deep batting line-up finally paying off. Almost every batsman contributed in their total of 205 for 7, Jamie Troughton top-scoring with 42, and no Glamorgan Dragons bowler escaped their wrath. When the Dragons batted, only Matthew Elliott and Sourav Ganguly gave them any hope of winning, and Ganguly's 36 off 35 balls was much slower than the required rate, which was above 10"
"Chittagong Division cricket team Chittagong Division cricket team represents the Chittagong Division, one of the seven administrative regions in Bangladesh. The team was founded in 1999 to compete in the National Cricket League (NCL) and plays first-class cricket. For the short-lived National Cricket League Twenty20 in 2010, the team adopted the name Cyclones of Chittagong (often abbreviated as CC). The equivalent team in the Bangladesh Premier League is the Chittagong Vikings (qv), replacing the Chittagong Kings. Chittagong Division play most of their home games at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium (ZAC) in the port city of Chittagong. The ZAC has"
"the Surrey Lions defeating the Warwickshire Bears by 9 wickets in the final to claim the title. The first Twenty20 match held at Lord's, on 15 July 2004 between Middlesex and Surrey, attracted a crowd of 27,509, the highest attendance for any county cricket game at the ground – other than a one-day final – since 1953. Thirteen teams from different parts of the country participated in Pakistan's inaugural competition in 2004, with Faisalabad Wolves the first winners. On 12 January 2005 Australia's first Twenty20 game was played at the WACA Ground between the Western Warriors and the Victorian Bushrangers."
"and finished fifth in the six-team league. Chittagong Division cricket team Chittagong Division cricket team represents the Chittagong Division, one of the seven administrative regions in Bangladesh. The team was founded in 1999 to compete in the National Cricket League (NCL) and plays first-class cricket. For the short-lived National Cricket League Twenty20 in 2010, the team adopted the name Cyclones of Chittagong (often abbreviated as CC). The equivalent team in the Bangladesh Premier League is the Chittagong Vikings (qv), replacing the Chittagong Kings. Chittagong Division play most of their home games at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium (ZAC) in the"
"Dragons in late September 2010. After leaving his professional playing days behind Charvis toured with JML Welsh Warriors, a semi-professional rugby union team, to the annual Manila 10s tournament, winning the Cup Division in their inaugural appearance at the tournament. In 2000, Charvis stripped bare as the muscular Atlas for S4C's ""Chwaraeon 2000"" promotional video. Charvis is also one of eight celebrities chosen to participate in an intense week learning Welsh in an eco-friendly chic campsite in Pembrokeshire, West Wales in the series """" shown on S4C in July 2011. In 2012, Charvis made a cameo appearance as himself in"
"Durham County Cricket Club Durham County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Durham. Since the 2014 season the Twenty20 team has been called the Durham Jets. Founded in 1882, Durham held minor status for over a century and was a prominent member of the Minor Counties Championship, winning the competition seven times. In 1992, the club joined the County Championship and the team was elevated to senior status as an official first-class team. Durham has been classified as an occasional List A"
"wickets in the final to claim the title. The first Twenty20 match held at Lord's, on 15 July 2004 between Middlesex and Surrey, attracted a crowd of 27,509, the largest attendance for any county cricket game at the ground other than a one-day final since 1953. Soon after with the adoption of Twenty20 matches by other cricket boards, the popularity of the format grew with unexpected crowd attendance, new regional tournaments such as Pakistan's Faysal Bank T20 Cup and Stanford 20/20 tournament and the financial incentive in the format. The West Indies regional teams competed in what was named the"
"Dragons 34 (Matt Prior 2, Jamie Soward 2, Neville Costigan, Wendell Sailor tries; Jamie Soward 5 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 12 (Craig Fitzgibbon 2 tries, 2 goals) Team: Sam Perrett, Sandor Earl, Mitchell Aubusson, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Setaimata Sa, Mitchell Pearce, Nate Myles, Jake Friend, Lopini Paea, Anthony Cherrington, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Shane Shackleton, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Tom Symonds, Nick Kouparitsas. Round 19: New Zealand Warriors 30 (Manu Vatuvei 2, Patrick Ah Van, Stacey Jones, Simon Mannering, Wade McKinnon tries; Stacey Jones 3 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 24 (Tom Symonds 2, Willie Mason, Ben Jones tries; Craig Fitzgibbon"
"Warriors (cricket team) The Warriors is the name used by the combined Eastern Province and Border first class cricket teams in South Africa. Their home venues are St George's Park, Port Elizabeth and Buffalo Park, East London. The combined team, previously known as the Chevrolet Warriors for sponsorship purposes, play in the Sunfoil Series first-class competition, the Momentum 1 Day Cup and the Ram Slam T20 Challenge limited over competitions. They were the 2009/2010 MTN Domestic Championship and Standard Bank Twenty20 winners, as well as runners-up to the Chennai Super Kings in the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 held in South"
"their home matches under their lights. No other counties staged group matches under lights. This was the first time that day/night cricket in England had been played between any two counties outside of the National League and on 19 July 2003 at Trent Bridge in Nottingham Surrey Lions won not only the Twenty20 Cup for the first time but also won the very first domestic cup final to be played under floodlights. In 2004 Derbyshire became the third County to install paramount floodlights at their ground in Derby and also the number of day/night games in the Twenty20 Cup in"
"2010 Twenty20 Cup The 2010 Friends Provident t20 tournament was the inaugural Friends Provident t20 Twenty20 cricket competition for the England and Wales first-class counties. The competition ran from 1 June 2010 until the finals day at The Rose Bowl on 14 August 2010. The eighteen counties were split into two regions, North and South, with the top four teams from each group progressing to the quarter-final knockout stage. The competition was won by Hampshire Royals, who beat Essex Eagles in the semi-finals, and Somerset in the final, by virtue of losing fewer wickets in a tied match. In May,"
"squad to take part in the Clydesdale Bank 40 domestic limited overs competition against the regular first-class counties. The Unicorns were made up of 15 former county cricket professionals and 6 young cricketers looking to make it in the professional game. He played for Shropshire County Cricket Club in the 2010, 2011 and 2013 seasons, having also played club cricket with Reigate Priory Cricket Club. Chris Murtagh Christopher Paul Murtagh (born 14 October 1984 in Lambeth) is an English cricketer who played for Surrey before being released in 2009. He is a right-handed batsman. Chris attended the selective The John"
"Dragons, Rowdy Bangalore, Mumbai Tigers, Kolkata Baabu Moshayes, Jaipur Raj Joshiley, Pune Anmol Ratn and Ahmedabad Express. Delhi Dragons emerged as the inaugural BCL champions in a thriller finale. The first season on Sony Entertainment Television India. The second season took place in 2016. Two new cricket teams, Chennai Swaggers and Lucknow Nawabs were added to the BCL. Again in Season 2, Delhi Dragons for the second time in a row and emerged as the 2 times champions of BCL. The second season aired on Colors TV. The third season premiered on February 25, 2018. Lucknow Nawabs defeated the two"
"St. George Dragons The St George Dragons are an Australian rugby league football club from the St George district in Sydney, New South Wales playing in the top level New South Wales competition and Australian Rugby League competitions from the 1921 until the 1997 ARL season, as well as the unified 1998 National Rugby League season. In 1999, they formed a joint venture with the Illawarra Steelers, creating the St George Illawarra Dragons team which continues to compete in the NRL today. As a stand-alone club, they field teams in the NSWRL underage men's and women's competitions, Harold Matthews Cup,"
"Dragons televised five games in their inaugural season of 2000. Dragons games were televised on WHIO-TV digital channel 7.2 (Time Warner Cable channels 23 and 372) from 2009-2015. Games were televised on Time Warner Cable from 2000-2008. Over the years, Dragons color commentators on television broadcasts have included Joe Nuxhall, Ken Griffey Sr., Tom Browning, Ron Oester, Bill Doran, Tommy Helms, Todd Benzinger, Doug Bair, Jeff Reboulet, and Hal McCoy, among others. Dayton Dragons The Dayton Dragons are a Class A minor league baseball team playing in the Midwest League based in Dayton, Ohio. The Dragons are affiliated with the"
"Croft and Andrew Davies had them all out for 128 at Sophia Gardens. Croft and Matthew Elliott both made fifties as Glamorgan Dragons knocked off the runs with ten wickets and 7.3 overs to spare, helped by five no-balls and four wides from the Gloucestershire bowlers. Somerset (2pts) beat Gloucestershire (0pts) by 95 runs Somerset Sabres made it through to the quarter-finals after recording a massive score of 228 for 5 in twenty overs - the highest team total in Twenty20 Cup history, eclipsing a record set a couple of weeks earlier. The most economical bowler was Steve Kirby, and"
"to take part in the Clydesdale Bank 40 domestic limited overs competition against the regular first-class counties. The Unicorns were made up of 15 former county cricket professionals and 6 young cricketers looking to make it in the professional game. Durston impressed with the bat in the early stages of the competition, and after an unbeaten century against Sussex, he was offered a contract to play Twenty20 cricket for Derbyshire for the 2010 season. After impressing for Derbyshire in the limited overs formats of the game, Durston was offered a full playing contract, and became a permanent fixture in both"
"freelance Twenty20 cricketer and has since played in tournaments in Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Netherlands, England and Hong Kong as well as in Australia where he has signed a 3-year contract to play for the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League. He also has the unique record of having represented 3 countries, having played for Scotland and Netherlands as their overseas player in the English County one day competition and also for Australia in the Hong Kong Sixes. Cameron Borgas Cameron James Borgas (born 1 September 1983 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian cricketer who plays for"
"including Mat Rogers, Mark McGaw and Robbie Kearns. Engadine Dragons The Engadine Dragons Junior Rugby League Football Club is a rugby league football club that was formed in 1958 and competes in the Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League. The club is based out of Engadine in the Sutherland Shire where its headquarters are located and usually draws on the large majority of its junior players from that suburb and neighbouring suburb, Woronora Heights. The Engadine Dragons club currently field teams from Under 6 age groups all the way up to A Grade and is one of the most successful modern"
"Colombo Commandos Colombo Commandos cricket team is one of the five provincial cricket teams which make up the Sri Lankan domestic cricket structure representing mainly three districts of Western Province, Sri Lanka, the Colombo District, the Gampaha District and the Kalutara district, and with some nearby provinces. In previous occasions, the province was divided into two halves as Basnahira North and Basnahira South, which was combined in this season as Colombo Commandos. The cricket team's first participation came during the Twenty20 competition known as the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 2016 season which was known as Super T20 Provincial Tournament. The team plays"
"Speen Ghar Region in the 2018 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament on 1 March 2018. He made his List A debut for Speen Ghar Region in the 2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament on 10 July 2018. In September 2018, he was named in Balkh's squad in the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League tournament. In December 2018, he was named in Afghanistan's under-23 team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. Ikram Ali Khil Ikram Ali Khil (; born 29 September 2000) is an Afghan cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Band-e-Amir Dragons in"
"Band-e-Amir Dragons Band-e-Amir Dragons ( ""Band-e-Amīr Khāmārān / Shāmārān""; ) or Band-e-Amir Region is one of six first-class cricket teams in Afghanistan. In the 2017 Shpageeza team auction, the Band-e-Amir Dragons team was bought by Paragon Group, a logistics and supply services company, and it will play as the Paragon Band-e-Amir Dragons in this competition. The Region represents the following provinces in the centre of Afghanistan: Ghazni, Bamyan, Parwan, Panjshir, Daykundi, and Wardak. The team is named after Band-e Amir, a series of six deep blue lakes in Bamyan Province. Band-e-Amir Region compete in the Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament,"
"in 1990, participating teams varied from year to year. The tournament started with four provincial teams. They were Western Province, Southern Province, North Western Province and Kandurata. In the first first-class Inter-provincial tournament, which was called the 1990 Singer Inter-Provincial Trophy, Kandurata, then called Central Province, captained by J.R.Ratnayeke, had come second out of the four provinces, losing none but second to Western Province on points, with 11.4. Western Province went on to win the tournament, not losing a game. With the establishment of Twenty20 cricket in 2003, it came to Sri Lanka in 2004 as the Twenty20 Tournament, however"
"Central Districts cricket team Central Districts, also known as the Central Stags, are a first-class cricket team based in central New Zealand. They are the men's representative side of the Central Districts Cricket Association. They compete in the Plunket Shield first-class competition, the Ford Trophy domestic one day competition and the Burger King Super Smash Twenty20 competition. They are one of six teams that make up New Zealand Cricket. They were the fifth of the current teams to compete in the Plunket Shield, which they entered for the first time in the 1950–51 season. Central Districts comprises eight district associations:"
"dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship. It was intended to deliver fast-paced, exciting cricket accessible to thousands of fans who were put off by the longer versions of the game. Stuart Robertson, the marketing manager of the ECB, proposed a 20 over per innings game to county chairmen in 2001 and they voted 11–7 in favour of adopting the new format. The first official Twenty20 matches were played on 13 June 2003 between the English counties in the Twenty20 Cup. The first season of Twenty20 in England was a relative success, with the Surrey Lions defeating the Warwickshire Bears by 9"
"the Twenty20 Cup for the first time in 2015. Cricket may not have reached Lancashire until the 18th century. As advised by the Association of Cricket Statisticians (ACS), the earliest known reference to the sport being played in the county has been found in the ""Manchester Journal"" dated Saturday, 1 September 1781. It concerned an eleven-a-side match played the previous Monday, 27 August, at Brinnington Moor between a team of printers and one representing the villages of Haughton and Bredbury, who were the winners. As Bredbury was then in Cheshire, the match is the earliest reference for that county too."
"Pro12"" ""More information at: 2017–18 Pro14"" Following the 2016–17 season, the Newport Gwent Dragons dropped their geographic identifiers from their name, becoming simply Dragons. Judgement Day (rugby union) Judgement Day () is an annual Welsh Rugby Union event that takes place at Millennium Stadium (currently known for sponsorship reasons as Principality Stadium) in Cardiff and is part of the Pro14 competition. The four regions – Cardiff Blues, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets – join with the Welsh Rugby Union in organising a double-header fixture at the Millennium Stadium. The annual derby day clash will be repeated for the foreseeable future with"