East Grinstead Cricket Club
English cricket club
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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.
| 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] |
History
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
1st XI
- Sussex Cricket League Premier Division
- Champions 2017
