The Great Pyramids of the West Midlands
The Great Pyramids of the West Midlands Many people year after year fly to Egypt to see the great pyramids of Giza, a man made wonder attracting people from around the world they mesmerized explorers promoting a boom in Egyptology in academia and Victoria high society. But another great pyramid exists out there in the cricketing world and this one is a little bit more modern. Formed over years during the late 90’s early 00’s the Birmingham League Pyramid has grown to become one of the top competitions in amateur cricket in the country. Before I get into the stats about this subject I thought I would explain what prompted me to write it. Moving around the country and therefore, playing cricket in various leagues I had always assumed (incorrectly) that counties have “the” league. My experience of cricket in the West Midlands and then moving down to Kent was that of giant all encompassing county leagues, but then I moved to Yorkshire which has a confusing array of overlapp...