The story of Titanic Cricket Club started in an Enfield Pub in 1976 when a group of friends, on leaving school, decided to remain in contact and meet up every Sunday for a drink.
On Sundays back in 1976 pubs only opened between 12noon and
In those early days, the five hours often contained 2 games, due to the lack of a bowling attack and no batsmen. Games with scores such as 11, 16 and 26 all out, were often followed by a ‘beer’ match, where strangely Titanic has never lost.
Mystery surrounded who came up with the club name and why, but it could not have suited the team and the players who have represented Titanic CC over the years, any better. Plus, it has provided local newspaper sports writers with a comprehensive range of headlines. Who could forget the ‘Go Down on a Titanic Cricketer’ tee-shirts from the club’s 1990 tour to
Titanic CC have had many homes, Whitewebbs, Enfield Playing Fields, Goffs Oak, Cuffley, Hertford, Bayford & Hertford, Broxbourne and currently without a home ground.
The club have had relatively few players over the years as most stay! The only ways to leave Titanic are through serious injury, old age, move more than 50 miles away, death or you give up drinking.
Opposition clubs still try to book Titanic CC for a fixture on Bank Holiday weekend Sundays, knowing their seasons’ bar takings will be doubled in one afternoon/evening.
Until the 2004 season Titanic CC would only ever play Sunday friendly cricket, but from the 2005 season the club joined the North Herts Cricket League and becoming league 2 champions in 2007. Not a bad feat for a rag-tag bunch of drinkers who’s home is in South-East Herts – but then Titanic CC have never, and will never be, your normal Cricket Club!
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