East Grinstead Cricket Club
| Team information | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1857[1] |
| Home venue | East Grinstead Sports Club, Saint Hill Road, East Grinstead |
| History | |
| No. of titles | 1 (SCL 2017) |
| Notable players | Will Adkin,[1] Lewis Hatchett,[1] Fynn Hudson-Prentice[1] |
East Grinstead Cricket Club is a cricket club based in East Grinstead, in Sussex, England. The club was founded in 1857[1] and won its first Sussex Cricket League title in 2017.
History
[edit]There is a record of an East Grinstead team in 1731. On Monday, 12 July of that year, "the gamesters of East Grinstead" played a match against Surrey at Smitham Bottom, near Croydon. The stakes were 40 guineas a side, and East Grinstead won by four wickets.[2][3]
East Grinstead Cricket Club was founded in 1857. In 1989, the East Grinstead Cricket Club merged with nearby East Grinstead Hockey Club to create East Grinstead Sports Club Limited.[4] Following the merger the club sold the cricket ground and moved to the site of the hockey club, which owned its own land. Money from the sale was spent on a new pavilion, a new cricket square and an artificial sand pitch (used for hockey).[4] In 2017, the club won the Sussex Cricket League for the first time and reached the semi-finals of the National Club Championship, having beaten Bath in the quarter-finals.[5]
Honours
[edit]1st XI
- Sussex Cricket League Premier Division
- Champions 2017
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "East Grinstead Cricket Club". East Grinstead Cricket Club. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
- ↑ Waghorn 2005, p. 8.
- ↑ ACS 1981, p. 20.
- 1 2 "History of the Sports Club". East Grinstead Sports Club.
- ↑ "Adkin Inspires East Grinstead to National Cup Semi-Final". Mid Sussex Times. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
Bibliography
[edit]- ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709–1863. Nottingham: ACS. OCLC 85045528.
- Waghorn, H. T. (2005) [1906]. The Dawn of Cricket. London: J. W. McKenzie. ISBN 978-09-47821-17-3.
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