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[pablomarmite]

The ncu premier  in Northern Ireland is as strong as any premier league in England that includes the Lancashire league and the Middlesex premier league and the wepl div 2

I suspect th wepl 1 would be right at the top of the tree but there so many it would be hard to pick one

Interesting view point. The Leinster league is stronger than the NCU and having seen a lot of both the east Anglian premier league and the ncu premier league I would say the east Anglian is stronger. I must add I haven't played in either of the leagues only a bit too high a standard for me!! Have you played/seen the leagues you are referring to?

[Jenko]

I played Kent premier league like people have said there were some very strong teams and then not so strong teams (like who I played for lol) did play against some serious cricketers tho Bell-Drummond comes to mind he smashed us all over the place. blackheath and bromley had some serious talent too.

[Stewie-Kidd]

I played Kent premier league like people have said there were some very strong teams and then not so strong teams (like who I played for lol) did play against some serious cricketers tho Bell-Drummond comes to mind he smashed us all over the place. blackheath and bromley had some serious talent too.

did you see that aiden blizzard was playing for blackheath this season?

[Gingerbusiness]

I've played in the Home Counties Premier League, the Surrey Championship Prem and the Middlesex Premier over the last 10/12 years - though this year I've moved back to my boyhood club in the Thames Valley Cricket League.

In my experience, without a doubt, the Surrey Championship is the best. The other two aren't a million miles away, but the players you get are all current or ex-first class counties players, and they aren't scared to bring in a high quality overseas or two either.

I think it's great that this cricket exists - but for some of the clubs too much focus is placed on the 1st XI and the rest can do whatever because the chairman doesn't care. It's a shame when it's run like that. I played for a club, no naming names, but when a first team player got injured, instead of calling up a 2s player, the chairman rang Giles White at Hampshire and got in one of their second string in. Pitiful.

[Optical]

did you see that aiden blizzard was playing for blackheath this season?

Yeah, he hit 156 odd off 77 balls against us!

[joeljonno]

How many Premier Divisions are there nationally? Also i was wondering  which county has the highest standard of cricket in their premier league and what is the standard like compared to 2XI county cricket ? Just a few things id like to know, anyone on the forum who plays premier cricket would be good to comment.

Jimster

As you can see, there is a lot of view points about the different Premier leagues. Each will believe there's is the best, however, I think there's much more than just 'best'.

To make a strong league, you need a number of strong teams and perhaps you should look at the other end of the league too really rate this. Some leagues may be won by the same couple of teams every year, and some maybe different a lot of the time. Just because a team in your league wins national trophies, didn't necessarily mean that is the best league.

There's a lot of subjectiveness and everyone will have a view.

Until there is a fully implemented pyramid structure where teams get promoted and relegated a league will never be as strong as it could be.