Tea for two – or if you are a cricket club stalwart, tea for 22.

Clubs across the country are used to catering for hot and weary players during a hard day's play.

But a village outfit in Norfolk has gone the extra mile – and now it has been recognised as being among the best in the UK.

Rocklands, near Attleborough, has been shortlisted in a national competition to find the club that dishes up the tastiest of that most British of foodie institutions – the cricket tea.

Its efforts are set to be featured on national TV during the Investec Ashes series between England and the Aussies, which starts today.

Clips of Rocklands, and the other shortlisted clubs, playing – and tucking in – will be screened during breaks in the action on Channel 5's highlights show.

Rocklands, whose first team plays in the Norfolk Cricket Alliance division five, are pitched against three clubs – Great Habton, from North Yorkshire, Corbridge, from Northumberland, and Hyde, from Cheshire – in the Yorkshire Tea Great Cricket Tea Challenge.

At stake is the prize of a new £10,000 kitchen.

Filming for the project took place over May and June, with the winner due to be announced to viewers during the final Test next month.

For the final, two of the club's most staunch supporters, Lis Walker and Lorraine Page, travelled to Lord's – the spiritual home of English cricket – to lay on a spread showcasing Norfolk ingredients in the famous Long Room for a panel of judges comprising Ashes legend Michael Vaughan – who captained England to Ashes victory in 2005 – Ian Brabbin, head of tea at Taylors of Harrogate, and Justin Clapham, from the world-famous Bettys' craft bakery.

Lorraine, who has two sons who play for Rocklands, said: 'It was pretty nerve-racking, making sure you'd got everything – like I'd forgotten the sausage meat, so we had to go back home – it was just going through each combination of what we were going to prepare, making sure we had every element.

'Everything was just made from the heart, everything we did was lovingly thought about.'

Lis, whose husband Martin is a Rocklands club coach, said: 'We sat here several evenings with other people from the club and we tried to work out what we wanted to do.'

More than 200 clubs entered the competition, but to reach the final, Rocklands bowled over first-stage judges with a specially-written poem and descriptions of mouth-watering morsels that included their 'legendary' chocolate cake, homemade Scotch eggs, a 'brilliant' Battenburg, a 'moist, squidgy apricot and coconut cake' and a 'mean meringue with kiwi'.

For the Lord's final-stage judging, Lis and Lorraine laid on a spread that included sandwiches with Norfolk cheeses and tasty home-made preserves. Lorraine said: 'We wanted to take Norfolk to London.'

And the secret of a great cricket tea? Lis and Lorraine are in no doubt – home cooking. Lorraine said: 'The fact that it's such a quick-fix world, people appreciate the time and the effort that goes into home-cooking.'

Rocklands has 15 people on the tea rota, working in pairs, doing the cooking and laying out the spreads.

The club was founded in 1865 and shares facilities with the village football club.

It runs a youth section, with softball for the younger children, and under-11, under-13 and under-15 teams, with a second team that competes in the Norfolk Cricket League, division six, and a team in division two of the Mid-Norfolk Sunday League.