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[procricket]

johnny we talking bootle???

[TheAwesomeSLA]

lytham are top atm procricket so i presume hes talking about them? bootle don't seem to be as good this year as previous seasons. they lost a couple of players at the end of last year. it does seem to have made the league more open with bootle not being as dominant. 

[Fetchthatone]

What about the league structures in places like Wales, Scotland, Ireland?

As I remember when Sky did that club life, Ireland had Merrion CC which seemed a big club, and Scotland had a club who won the Club Life exclusive tournament thing.

[procricket]

i play in ni now and the standard is as good as england

[c1arkie]

Almost impossible to judge, but at a guess Id echo whoever mentioned the NE Prem. There was a comp on Sky a few years ago now where South Northumberland just blew teams away, they looked on another level altogether. But its open for debate, particularly up north there are a lot of insular leagues with good players and good pros but that seem stuck in a bit of a time warp in terms of facilities.

[uknsaunders]

Played in a few places, south east, yorkshire, etc. I think it depends on whether you are looking for the best team or standard. Certainly most of the top teams in nearly every major league would probably be as good as each other ie. the top Home Counties Premier League Side would compete with the top Kent/Yorkshire/Bradford side. Alot of the time sides in the north call "Pro's" what guys in the South would call a Minor Counties player or County 2nd XI player, so gauging strength isn't always easy. I would say that in terms of overall strength the Kent/Surrey/Home Counties Leagues must be up there. The Home Counties is a monster league comprising oxon,bucks,berks,herts, parts of surrey, hampshire, middlesex and contains roughly 50 divisions - so you have to be pretty good to play in the Premier League. Yorkshire potentially is the same size but all the best teams are split into many different leagues, bradford, airewhafe, yorkshire central, huddersfield drakes etc, so I'm not sure the depth of sides is all that good.

[essexarsenal]

In essex, the best league is Shepherd Name or T-Rippon.  Sheperd Name has a team which includes James Foster, chambers, westfield (all essex contracted) and a player who plays for the unicorns. T-Rippon has a few like Comber and Phill simmons when free and sometimes I believe Nasser Hussain plays in the league sometimes.

[Buzz]

It is probably safe to say that all leagues fluctuate in standards and on that basis it is impossible to say one league is better than any other...
The Surrey Prem is a very decent standard (I got found out at Div 1 level when I played it a few years ago so haven't played at prem level)

[Simmy]

i used to play for are league(pontefract+district) againts other leagues like the york league, noth yorkshire etc.

and like people have said standard is pretty much the same.

but you tend to find in the other leagues in yorkshire

Central Yorkshire,Bradford league, York league etc

that every good club has big money behind them and can aford to pay wages and get good overseas playins in and x pro's.

in are league money is spent but not to to over seas or x pro's.

we arnt allowed to actually pay players in are league all thought 70% of the clubs do and it goes down as "performance money"

[Johnny]

johnny we talking bootle???

Lytham

[iand123]

Our 1st team play in the Kent Prem and its full of a pro's ex-pro's. Kent assigns 2 payers to each premier league team for the season, working backwards the 2 newly promoted teams get first pick, working up to the previous years champions. Smart money is to pick the people on the fringes of the kent side as they tend to have a greater availability.

Bromley CC have alot of ex pro's like Ed Giddins playing for them. There are also alot of decent overseas players playing due to the money around to play them, ranging from A players to fringe members of international squads

[jimba101]

Where I play in northants cricket league the standard isn't amoung the best in the country however there are some decent players floating around in the prem. Jason gillespie, devon malcolm and darren gough were all payed to play by brixworth. Not a bad bowling attack eh?!

[ProWannabe88]

a few of us from up t'north are touring kent in a few weeks. we have a game against bexley cc.

anything we need to know about before we arrive and hit the southern ale 

[iand123]

my advice would be go somewhere else! are you staying in bexley or nearby?

[Tumo]

Notts is good. Papplewick have Phil Defreitas, Stuey Law, and Dean Headley on their books...