Old Buckenham Hall Cricket Ground
Encyclopedia
Old Buckenham Hall is a cricket
ground in Attleborough
, Norfolk
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1912, when L Robinson's XI played the first first-class
match on the ground against the touring South Africans. From 1912 to 1921, the ground hosted 6 first-class matches, the last of which saw L Robinson's XI play the touring Australians. All first-class matches held at the ground has L Robinson's XI as the home team.
The ground continues to be used to his day and in local domestic cricket, the ground is the home of Old Buckenham Cricket Club.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
ground in Attleborough
Attleborough
Attleborough is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England situated between Norwich and Thetford. The parish falls within the district of Breckland and has an area of 21.90 km² with a Mainline to both Norwich and Cambridge....
, Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1912, when L Robinson's XI played the first first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
match on the ground against the touring South Africans. From 1912 to 1921, the ground hosted 6 first-class matches, the last of which saw L Robinson's XI play the touring Australians. All first-class matches held at the ground has L Robinson's XI as the home team.
The ground continues to be used to his day and in local domestic cricket, the ground is the home of Old Buckenham Cricket Club.
External links
- Old Buckenham Hall on CricketArchiveCricketArchiveCricketArchive is a website that aims to provide a comprehensive archive of records relating to the sport of cricket. It claims to be the most comprehensive cricket database on the internet, including scorecards for all matches of first-class cricket , List A cricket , Women's Test cricket and...
- Old Buckenham Hall on CricinfoCricinfoESPNcricinfo is believed to be the largest cricket-related website on the World Wide Web. Content includes news,articles, live scorecards,live text commentary and a comprehensive and searchable database called 'StatsGuru', of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present...