East Grinstead Cricket Club

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East Grinstead Cricket Club
Team information
Established1857;166 years ago (1857) [1]
Home venueEast Grinstead Sports Club, Saint Hill Road, East Grinstead
History
No. of titles1 (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.

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History

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. [2] 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). [2] 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. [3]

Honours

1st XI

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "East Grinstead Cricket Club". East Grinstead Cricket Club. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 "History of the Sports Club". East Grinstead Sports Club.
  3. "Adkin Inspires East Grinstead to National Cup Semi-Final". Mid Sussex Times. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2017.