East Grinstead Cricket Club

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East Grinstead Cricket Club
Team information
Established1857; 167 years ago (1857)[1]
Home venueEast Grinstead Sports Club, Saint Hill Road, East Grinstead
History
No. of titles1 (SCL 2017)
Notable playersWill 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

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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

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1st XI

  • Sussex Cricket League Premier Division
    • Champions 2017

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "East Grinstead Cricket Club". East Grinstead Cricket Club. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b "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.