Fenner's

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Fenner's
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Ground information
Location Cambridge, England
Establishment1848
OwnerCambridge University Cricket & Athletics Company Ltd
End names
Pavilion End
Gresham Road End
Team information
Cambridge University Cricket Club (1848 – present)
As of 5 May 2023
Source: CricketArchive
The indoor cricket school Fenners2.jpg
The indoor cricket school

Fenner's is Cambridge University Cricket Club's ground.

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History

Cambridge University Cricket Club had previously played at two grounds in Cambridge, the University Ground and Parker's Piece. In 1846, Francis Fenner leased a former cherry orchard from Gonville and Caius College for the purpose of constructing a cricket ground. [1] [2] In 1848 he sub-let the ground to Cambridge University Cricket Club. [3] Fenner's first hosted first-class cricket in 1848, with Cambridge University playing against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). [4]

A 40-foot wooden pavilion, painted blue, with a slated roof had been erected by the 1856 season. [5]

Since 1894, Fenner's has been owned by the Cambridge University Cricket and Athletic Company; a private limited company whose Members comprise the full members of Cambridge University Cricket Club and Cambridge University Athletics Club.

Facilities

As well as the cricket ground, there is a 3-lane indoor cricket school.

The groundsman pioneered the art of mowing grass in strips to create patterns, a technique now common in sports stadiums around the world. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Fenner's". CricInfo. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
  2. ↑ Thomas Henry Case (1899). Memoirs of a King's College Chorister. W.P.Spalding. p. 45.
  3. ↑ Powell, William (1989). The Wisden Guides To Cricket Grounds. London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd. pp. 393–6. ISBN   009173830X.
  4. ↑ "First-Class Matches played on FP Fenner's Ground, Cambridge" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Cricketers' Chronicle". Cambridge Chronicle and Journal. 31 May 1856. p. 8.
  6. ↑ Allen, Peter (1999). The Invincibles: The Legend of Bradman's 1948 Australians. Mosman, NSW, Australia: Allen and Kemsley. ISBN   1-875171-06-1. p. 103

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