Forty-nine games were arranged in that first season, and the popular cricket festival at Stowe Lane, Colwall, which is still held today, was launched.
By the following season there were ten affiliated clubs, by 1934 there were eighty, and by 1938 the number had reached 123.
By 1931 the first county associations had been formed, and Durham played a combined Cheshire and Lancashire XI.
Four years later the country was divided into five regional associations: East, Midlands, North, South and West.
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