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==Sports== Huntingdonshire is the birthplace of [[bandy]], now an IOC accepted sport.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.internationalbandy.com/viewNavMenu.do?menuID=4 |title=Olympic |website=[[Federation of International Bandy]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003055143/http://www.internationalbandy.com/viewNavMenu.do?menuID=4 |archive-date=3 October 2009}}</ref> According to documents from 1813, Bury Fen Bandy Club was undefeated for 100 years. A club member, [[Charles Goodman Tebbutt|Charles Tebbutt]], wrote the first official rules in 1882 and helped to spread the sport to other countries.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2006/02/15/bandy_sport_feature.shtml |title=Cambridgeshire> History> local history> A handy Bandy guide... |publisher=BBC News |date=24 September 2014 |author=Helen Burchell}}</ref> [[Huntingdonshire County Cricket Club]] is taken to be one of the 20 [[minor counties of English and Welsh cricket]], but it has never played in the [[Minor Counties Championship]]. It has its own Cricket Board and played in the [[Friends Provident Trophy|English domestic one-day competition]] from 1999 to 2003.The county played seven List A matches during this period, with the final List A match it played coming against [[Cheshire County Cricket Club|Cheshire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/cgi-bin/scorecard_oracle_reveals_results.cgi |title=List A matches played by Huntingdonshire County Cricket Club|publisher=Cricket Archive|access-date=24 September 2022}}</ref>
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