Chatteris Cricket Ground

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Chatteris Cricket Ground
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Ground information
Location Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Establishment1832 (first recorded match)
Team information
Cambridge Town Club (1832)
Cambridgeshire (1967-1971)
As of 21 August 2010
Source: Ground profile

Chatteris Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1832, when Cambridge Town Club played the Marylebone Cricket Club in the ground's only first-class match. [1] The ground was first used for Minor Counties Championship cricket when Cambridgeshire played Lincolnshire in 1967. From 1967 to 1971, the ground hosted 4 Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which saw Cambridgeshire play Bedfordshire [2] Chatteris CC was formed in 1879 and it is uncertain if the field used in 1832 is the same one currently used by the town club in Wenny Road. [3]

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