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The school's cricket ground – the Upper – is usually used by the 1st XI cricket team. The ground was first used in 1870, when Sherborne School played Clifton College. [59] The ground is also one of the venues used by Dorset for their home fixtures. Dorset played their first match on the ground in the 1902 Minor Counties Championship against ...
Their first minor counties fixture in 1897 was against Wiltshire at the Recreation Ground, Blandford Forum, while their first List A match came 71 years later against Bedfordshire in the 1968 Gillette Cup at Sherborne School. The club is based at Dean Park, Bournemouth, which also held first-class and List A cricket for Hampshire from 1897 to 1992.
An advertisement in the Sherborne Mercury dated Tuesday 9 May 1738 is the earliest reference for cricket in Dorset. Twelve Dorchester men at Ridgway Races challenged twelve men from elsewhere to play them at cricket for the prize of twelve pairs of gloves valued at a shilling a pair.
Venue. Sherborne School Cricket Ground. Surface. Grass. The Blackmoor Vale LTC Tournament [1] was a late Victorian era men's tennis tournament founded in August 1880. [2] It was first staged at Sherborne, nr Blackmore Vale, North Dorset, England and ran through until 1883 when it was abolished.
List of Dorset County Cricket Club grounds; S. Sherborne School This page was last edited on 16 December 2019, at 17:04 (UTC). ...
In their twenty List A matches, 88 players have represented Dorset. Stuart Rintoul has appeared the most times for the county, playing in ten matches. Graeme Calway recorded the highest score in List A cricket for Dorset, scoring 105 runs against Hampshire in 1992. Jon Hardy, who also during his career played 142 first-class matches is Dorset's ...
Ted Sainsbury. Edward Sainsbury (5 July 1851 – 28 October 1930) was an English cricketer who represented, and captained, Somerset County Cricket Club in the late 19th century. During a 10-year first-class cricket career, he also represented Gloucestershire and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Most commonly employed as a right-handed opening ...
Dorset. (1982–2015) Hampshire. (1897–1992) As of 6 September 2020. Source: CricketArchive. Dean Park is a cricket ground in Bournemouth, England. It was formerly used by Hampshire and Dorset County Cricket Clubs. It was bought by Park School in 2014.