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A brief history of clubs in and cricket in Winchester around Winchester CRICKET Winchester City Council has two venues available for cricket hire. These are King George V and North Walls Recreation Ground. Both sites offer Trace its evolution in Winchester and ’s cricketing legacy two cricket pitches with pavilion provision. ’s countryside Bishop Ken, a scholar of the college, recorded that he was fond of the game when he was a boy in the 1650s and 60s. For more information telephone In 1845, a college team was reputed to have been surprised when they played a Basingstoke team who won the match 01962 848 405 or visit: www.winchester.gov.uk by using a catapult instead of a bowler. Regular matches between Winchester, Eton and Harrow began in 1825. To see local clubs in action please contact the organisations direct. For a full listing of clubs simply contact Winchester & District Cricket Clubs Association on www.wdcca.play-cricket.com

The in the city of Winchester closely mirrors Bishop’s Waltham Cricket Club the changes in its evolution. At the time that Robert Matthew www.bishopswaltham.play-cricket.com wrote his poem in 1647 which refers to Winchester’s College Chawton Cricket Club pupils playing on St Catherine’s Hill, it was a casual sport played www.chawton.play-cricket.com by boys. William Lillywhite b1792* Harry Altham (b 1888) The Ashton Brothers Douglas Robert Jardine Hubert Doggart OBE Mansoor Ali Khan ‘Tiger’ (1900-1958) (b.1925) Pataudi (b.1941) Frederick William Lillywhite Harry was among the best “We thank thee, we praise Easton & Martyr Worthy Cricket Club By the 1770s, Winchester was regularly adult cricket was one of the great bowlers known personalities in the thee, we bless thee O Lord, As an English cricketer and Hubert Doggart was educated Born into an Indian royal www.emwcc.co.uk of the nineteenth world of cricket. He played, for Hubert, Percy, Gilbert and of the cricket at Winchester College and household, Mansur Ali Khan teams: it is recorded that in 1774 Winchester refused to allow When Hampshire Club looked into renovating legislated, test selected and Claude,” - so goes the old team in the early , Jar- King’s College, a Cambridge Pataudi completed his edu- St Cross Symondians Bishop’s Waltham to finish a match on Twyford Down although Southampton’s old County Ground in 1987, it was agreed that the He was coach to college was a historian and a coach Winchester College song, and dine, an Old Wykehamist (the in five different sports cation at Winchester College www.stcrosscc.co.uk only six runs were needed. Rather than throw the match away, teams in the early 1850s, for 30 years. A master and for good reason. Sporting name given to Winchester and captain in four. after inheriting the titular demands placed upon the pavilion and grounds had outgrown the THE DANCING YEARS AUSTEN FAMILY TIES STEVENTON & BEYOND Coming from a respectable family associated with the Landmarks of the author’s life in Hampshire COASTAL JAUNTS church, Jane and her sister Cassandra occupied a social Jane’s father, George Austen, (1731–1805) was 01962EDUCATION 866 AND EARLY 642 INFLUENCES stratum bracketed as gentry. the rector of St Nicholas Church in the parish of including preparing the boys cricket coach in Winchester, prowess ran in the Ashton College alumni) is perhaps dignity of Nawab of Pataudi Steventon. Reverend Austen took in boys to tutor. Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon The girls’ brief schooling was finally curtailed due to The well-spoken girls enjoyed a busy round of dances and There is also the Waltham players stayed overnight and subsequently warned facilities. Thirteen years and £24m later, The Rose Bowl opened. Rectory in north Hampshire, where her parents had constraints upon the family’s finances and Jane returned to house visits, mingling with the higher echelons of local His wife Cassandra (née Leigh) moved a year previously with three of Jane’s older the rectory in 1787 to begin writing a collection of poems, Georgian society in the great houses dotted throughout the PORTSMOUTH (1739–1827) was a sociable, siblings. Henry was born before Jane, then a further plays and short stories which she dedicated to friends and witty woman whom George rolling green countryside. three siblings arrived, meaning that the Austen brood family. This, her Juvenilia, encompassed her early writings. had met while studying in for their annual end of term he was also part of a family family - all four brothers best known for captaining He taught at Winchester upon his father’s death. numbered eight in all. As well as spending time with the family friend Madam It was whilst Jane was visiting her brothers Charles . Cassandra was visiting Pages from A History of England, perhaps the most celebrated a Jane Austen and Frank, both serving officers in the Royal Navy her uncle, Theophilus Leigh, George Austen, known as ‘the handsome proctor’at Balliol of these early works, can be viewed online at the British Lefroy, who lived at Ashe Rectory, we know that Jane and other teams against playing such unreasonable opponents. inPortsmouth, that she was influenced to write Master of Balliol College. When Cassandra left College, was a reflective, literary man, who took pride in his Library website (www.bl.uk/onlinegallery). Even in this, one Cassandra came into contact with the infamous Boltons of Mansfield Park. In the novel she portrays the old city the city, George followed her to Bath and continued children’s education. of Austen’s earliest texts, the reader glimpses the wit that Hackwood Park. (Jane dryly comments after meeting the to court her until they got married on 26 April 1764, convincingly, touching on the squalor of its poverty. was to come. The prose is peppered with phrases illustrating illegitimate daughter of Lord Boltonin the Bath assembly at the church of St Swithin in Bath. Hambledon Cricket Club matches at Lords against Eton of first class cricketers were Blues at Cambridge the English squad during College (1950-1972) while Most unusually for the period, he owned more than 500 The naval dockyard she describes in Mansfield Park her flair for detached, literary anticlimax: rooms that she was ‘much improved with a wig’); She also is now a sports field in neighbouring Portsea but the books and was forward thinking in encouraging his daughters trail available Although a close knit family, by today’s standards the household visited the Hansons of Farleigh House; and the Dorchesters In 2012 The Rose Bowl was renamed the Ageas Bowl and has been to read widely. Again unusually, when Jane’s only sister, ‘Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for.’ city still features the Georgian architecture which was subject to somewhat fluid arrangements regarding the care of Kempshott Park where Jane attended a New Year’s ball marks its development as a suburb serving thenaval Cassandra, left for school in 1782, she was of offspring. As was customary for the gentry at the time, Jane’s in 1800. personnel who guarded the once heavy coastal parents sent her as an infant to be cared for by a farming accompanied by Jane, aged just seven. Their and then Harrow. and also excelled in . its 1932-33 Ashes tour of maintaining a successful After playing for Oxford, mother wrote of their bond, ‘If Cassandra’s fortifications. neighbour, Elizabeth Littlewood. www.hambledoncricketclub.co.uk head had been going to be cut off, Jane would STEVENTON Jane Austen’s keen observation of the manners and morals Her brother George, who is thought to have suffered have hers cut off too’. of her extended social network was to give rise to her with an home to many international cricketers since the move from the old from epilepsy, also lived away from the family home. WHAT TO SEE famous plotlines revolving around unsuitable suitors and And the third child, Edward (shown left), was The two sisters attended schools in Oxford, Other than a towering lime tree, offspring of one planted by social position – she started drafting Pride and Prejudice, Sense In 1926, while in Winchester, Gilbert, Hubert and Claude . amateur cricket career for he went on to captain the adopted by his father’s third cousin, Mr Thomas Southampton and Reading. In Southampton In 1796 we know that a match took place between the SOUTHAMPTON Knight, eventually inheriting Godmersham the girls (and their cousin Jane Cooper) left Jane’s brother James, and a clump of nettles that is thought and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey whilst living at the rectory. and Chawton House, which led him to offer a the school when they caught a fever brought to mark the spot where the family well used to stand, nothing cottage attached to the Chawton estate to his to the city by troops returning from abroad. remains atthe site of the rectory other than the rural tranquillity itinerary that that was perhaps as central an element of Austen’s creativity as County Ground in 2001. played with HampshireJane, herfrom mother and sister Cassandra moved to mother and two sisters, Jane and Cassandra. Their cousin’s mother died and Jane the society of her day. DID YOU KNOW? Southampton after the death of her father in 1805. also contracted the illness becoming He lead the revolution as a college master, he wrote all captained the university Cambridge University and Indian national side at 21 and Arrangements like these were normal Jane found living in a city a challenge after her Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation for the time - the family was close and very unwell but, luckily for literary At St Nicholas Church there is a bronze plaque dedicated to country childhood. We know that the women spent of Pride and Prejudice starring tradesmen of Winchester and the tradesmen of Southampton, affectionate and recurring themesWickham of family posterity, survived. Cricketthe writer and you canClub see her elder brother’s grave, along with much time out of doors, promenading along the city Keira Knightly (see right Jane Austen died in a house on College Street in Winchester bonds and respectable rural living would those of other relatives. walls and taking excursions to the River Itchen and after a short illness. Her final resting place is Winchester play a strong part in Jane’s writing. and overleaf) has scenes links to this 2000-2007. He was Club captain for four years, and was joined bythe ruins of The 1000-year old yew, which used to house the key in the time of that were shot in Winchester. Cathedral, which is a central landmark of her life. This trail which moved from ‘The History of Cricket’, one of team in the three consecutive His team employed the Cricket Clubs. Doggart played 310 matches, scoring the Austens, still yields berries – its secret, central hollow intact. Netley Abbey. Surviving correspondence also tells us traces her journey from birth to her death giving you an that the three women travelled up the Beaulieu River, The Wheatsheaf Inn in North Waltham was once a coaching inn insight into the life and times of this ‘Hampshire girl’. passing Buckler’s Hard, an 18th century shipbuilding www.wickham.play-cricket.comand posting house visited by Austen as a child. Today it serves marking the shift in the game from a children’s game to an village, and Beaulieu Abbey. Jane also danced at the food to passers by. Offering open fires and cosy seating, many of ‘Give a girl an underarm (‘Hambledon style’) the earliest defintitive works seasons from 1921 to 1923. controversial ‘body line’ went on to represent England 15,425 runs, his highest fellow Australian internationals , andDolphin Stuart Hotel. the building’s 18th century features are still intact. education and one. introduce her properly Tel: 01256 398 282 Postcode: RG25 2BB. into the world, and ten to one but she THE AUSTEN FAMILY – WHAT TO SEE If you would like this leaflet in a larger format please has the means of contact the tourist information centre on 01962 840 500 settling well.’ adult’s sport, popular with working men. Another match to round-arm where the ball and it is still a major reference technique (where the in two Test matches in 1950 being 203 (not-out). Mansur The most extensive collection of memorabilia relating to the or e-mail [email protected] JANE AUSTEN Clark. Austen family is showcased at Jane Austen’s House, Chawton. between local tradesmen was recorded in 1856 at Oliver’s and hand must not be higher work today. His great legacy Awarded the Military Cross bowler deliberately aimed the and has held many offices in Khan made his Test debut See overleaf to find out more... West Meon Cricketjaneausten.co.uk Club visitwinchester.co.uk Battery when a team representing the town north of the High than the shoulder. With his is the formation of national in the first world war, Hubert cricket ball at the body of the sports administration, such against England at in Hampshire also has a strong history of developing England players: the 01730 829 213 “Let’s join in the praise of the bat and the , and sons he founded Lillywhite’s coaching schemes. (1892-1979) went on to play batsman), tactics employed as President of the MCC December 1961. Following likes of , Chris Smith, Shaun Udal, Chris Tremlett and Dimitri Winchester City Council’s tourism service would like to thank the following for their help sing in full chorus the patrons of cricket...” Street played against another from the south side. in Piccadilly . for Essex scoring more than to neutralize the opposing (1981-1982). his retirement, Mansur Ali Mascarenhas have all represented their country. in producing this leaflet: Graham Scobie; Charles Inglis; Winchester College; the marketing 1,000 runs in both 1921 and Australian batsmen, particu- Khan Pataudi became the team at The Ageas Bowl; Stephen Baldwin. The excerpt from a poem featured on the front Games akin to cricket have been played on the fields of England As the game became more popular, its following among the *Image by Unknown Artist 1922. He was knighted in 1959 larly , and which Indian national cricket coach cover on the Winchester College feature was written in 1976 by The Reverend Reynell since the Middle Ages, but a game called ‘crecket’ first appears c 1850, William Lillywhite. in recognition of his services caused a veritable storm in (1974-75) and later refereed In 2006 the Ageas Bowl hosted the international against Sri gentry grew and this is reflected in the of Winchester Cotton (1717-1796) School Master of Hyde School, Winchester and President of the in 1598. By permission of the Warden as an MP. the cricketing world. ICC matches Lanka and, following a successful planning application, was awarded Hambledon Club in 1773 and 1774. College pupils who rose to prominence in the sport. We take a and Scholars of Winchester Test venue status by the England and Wales Cricket Board. It hosted Hampshire’s own cricketing history owes much to the legacy of look at some of these noted players… College In 1923, Claude (1901- its first Test match, England vs Sri Lanka, in 2011 to a crowd of up to the Hambledon and Alresford cricket clubs and the pre-eminent 1942, pictured above) 25,000 people. players produced at Winchester College. succeeded Percy as captain Why not make Winchester your base as you uncover the of the university’s cricket The new Hilton Hotel at the Ageas Bowl offers 171 bedrooms for guests team amassing 916 runs and fascinating landmarks of cricket dotted across Hampshire? looking for a an indulgent and luxurious experience overlooking the If you would like this leaflet in a claiming 50 with his King_Alf medium-pace bowling, together pitch or the stunning golf course. larger format, please contact the with 21 catches. He played for tourist information centre In 2019, the Ageas Bowl will play host to some of the ICC World Cup KingAlfWinchester Essex between 1934 and 1938, 01962 840 500 his career cut tragically short matches, making it the perfect time to explore the area where cricket [email protected] when was born. KingAlfWinchester he died visitwinchester.co.uk during a For more information, including forthcoming music and sporting events, mid-air please visit www.ageasbowl.com. Produced by Winchester City Council training accident just before the April 2019 Second World War. visitwinchester.co.uk Alton 5 Rules and regulations M3 How to plan your visit to 1760-1771: During the period of Hambledon’s the cradle of cricket primacy, several rule changes occurred that 1 New Alresford turned the sport into its modern recognisable The map shown on the right is designed to help you plan form. your visit to Winchester and the district 7 Bowling: of the ball was pitched and is numbered to sequence the Winchester 6 under-arm, the ball was originally rolled along developments of the sport chronologically. A272 the ground and then hit with bat shaped like It’s up to you how you plan the itinerary St Catherine‘s a stick. In the 1820s William Lillywhite of your personal homage to cricket. You’ll 2 Hill lead a campaign to all round arm bowling. notice strong links between inns and the game The laws were changed to the -arm style West Meon - offering you a legitimate opportunity to explore some of bowling we have today in time for the 1864 Hampshire’s oldest and finest hostelries from The Bat & Ball 3 season. in Hambledon to The Globe in Alresford. In West Meon a M3 4 Wicket: The third (middle stump) was thriving gastro-pub named after Thomas Lord showcases B2177 B3035 the best of local food. B2150 introduced. Before this if the ball passed through the two stumps the batsman was deemed ; 8 Bishop‘s And there’s also an opportunity to visit Winchester and A3M Bats: The original bats had been of crooked or ‘hockey-stick’ design but M27 Waltham stroll up St Catherine’s Hill (site of a cricket match between evolved into a flat-faced type to cope with the new bowling style. In college boys in 1647) or take a tour of Winchester College Hambledon 1771 the width of the bat defined as 4¼ inches when noted cricketer itself where so many cricketers, including the controversial Southampton ‘Shock’ White emerged onto the pitch one September day in 1771 , honed their skills. As Hampshire is now the The Ageas Bowl Wickham with a bat the full width of the wicket. county of The Ageas Bowl, this strong tradition is clearly This unsporting behaviour led the Hambledon Club to minute: “In continuing with pride. view of the performance of one White of Ryegate on September 23rd that four and quarter inches shall be the breadth forthwith.” The ruling was accepted by most other clubs elsewhere, and recognised in the Code of 1774.

Early days The Lord legacy 1 Winchester College 3 St Catherine’s Hill 4 Hambledon 6 Alresford 7 West Meon 8 The Ageas Bowl 1622: One of the first records of ‘cricket’ ever being played is (1914-1991) (1755-1832) in a legal case in Boxgrove, West Sussex. Two men were Visit the college to find A Latin poem refers to Visit The Bat & Ball Inn In the eighteenth century Thomas Lord, founder of It seems Hampshire is Alresford’s Hambledon Players The cricket broadcaster and accused of playing cricket in the church grounds. The out more about where a match played on this whose famous landlords the noted cricketer Thomas Lord’s Cricket Ground, not going to give up its Thomas Taylor (1753-1806) This famous English The Alresford Connection commentator John Arlott lived Thomas Lord, founder of Lord’s Cricket churchwardens stated that it was “contrarie to the Altham coached cricket and unspoilt beauty spot have included Richard Taylor was landlord of The retired to West Meon in reputation as a centre of cricketer and Alresford resident played for the The Alresford Connection in Alresford between 1961 and Ground in London is buried in the seventh article (Sabbath) and for that they use to Douglas Jardine, the famous overlooking Winchester Nyren who ran Hambledon Globe in Alresford. Why not the Winchester district. You cricketing excellence. Hambledon Club and is regarded as one of the most Ashton brothers and Hubert in 1647. The view of Cricket Club, and Andrew take in the view of the lake can visit The Thomas Lord The multi-million pound According to John Arlott, (see right), Alresford 1981. church yard of St. John‘s Church in breake windowes with the ball”. Their defence was Doggart all learned to the city has changed Freemantle, a player who over lunch and then walk an Arts & Crafts Inn named stadium started hosting Cricket Club was one of the strongest cricket teams outstanding players of the 18th century. Taylor was West Meon. He retired to the village in another cricketing innkeeper. He was the landlord of that the game they were playing ‘was not cricket’, play cricket - and see for over the centuries, but Nyren himself admired. around the well preserved in his honour to enjoy Test series in 2011. in England, standing „higher in cricket than any Alresford Town 1830. An The Globe at Alresford (see map, left) and was buried in a plaque hence the origins of the phrase ‘it’s not cricket’. yourself the immaculately remains breathtaking. Cross the road and you’ll Georgian town with its local produce from their Visit www.ageasbowl.com town its size has done in the history of the game“ and council erected ­­­ award-winning Arts & Crafts Inn has between 1770 and 1795. Old Alresford in 1806 kept grounds overlooking For information on self see a statue and the cricket circular river walk that is kitchen garden. View Lord’s to find out more to mark his residence at 52 been trading there as the Thomas Alresford’s excellent cricketing reputation was well 1647: A Latin poem by Robert Matthew the water meadows where guided walks that include pitch that was once home remarkably unchanged tombstone at the local East Street (The Old Sun), Lord public house and restaurant they played. For more St Catherine’s Hill go to to the famous pavilion. today. Alresford’s cricketing church to complete the deserved and fiercely protected by the players. In Richard Aubrey Veck (1756-1823) Born in New contains a reference to a cricket match celebrating its unveiling with a since 1955. information, or to book a www.visitwinchester.co.uk Call 023 9263 2692 to book connections continued experience. To book a table 1774 The Hampshire Chronicle reported that Alresford, Veck made 35 known first-class appearances involving Winchester College pupils on when the team appeared to be commemorative cricket match in guided tour call 01962 621 or call 01962 840 500. a table. Postcode: PO8 0UB to recent times - Sun at The Thomas Lord call for the Hambledon Club between 1776 and 1784. Veck St Catherine’s Hill. Although cricket was losing a match against the united the New Alresford Ground and a Originally from Thirsk, North and Educated in 209 or email enterprises@ House, on Sun Lane was 01730 829 244. was a regular Hampshire player for nine seasons until certainly played earlier in the county, wincoll.ac once home to legendary Postcode: GU32 1LN. parishes of Alton and Chawton the launch event at The Globe. Diss, Norfolk, Lord moved to London to bowl for the White 1784, but then left the game at age 28, apparently to this is the first written record of a game in The Globe commentator John Arlott. Alresford players were not keen Conduit Club. He met the 9th Earl of Winchilsea, George 5 set up a business in Bishop’s Waltham, where he died Hampshire. Alresford to continue play Did you know? 2 The Bell Inn the next day on in 1823. Finch and the future Duke of Richmond, Charles Lennox, Thomas Taylor (1753-1806), a famous English cricketer was the who offered him the financial backing he needed to build Walk along the water the same ground The Bell Inn, St Cross, has 1654: During ’s landlord of this pub (see Alresford’s Hambledon Players, right). his first cricket ground off Dorset Square. When the lease Protectorate the playing of cricket was meadows to the Bell Inn Today it’s a family and dog friendly experience with good food as was generally Andrew Freemantle (1768-1837) Born in Bishop’s a full sized score board in in St Cross for a Cricket the practice. ran out on this, Lord purchased two fields in St John‘s prohibited on the Sabbath, and in this and stunning views over the lake. Call 01962 733 118 to book. Sutton, just outside Alresford, Freemantle made his the pub garden themed outing! Postcode: SO24 9DB According to the Wood, and a ground was completed there in 1809. In year the penalty fine was doubled to two mark for Hampshire during the Hambledon era. His Postcode SO23 9RE newspaper this was debut was in 1788 season and by 1810 he had made 1813 plans were agreed to transect this site with the shillings. If you would like this leaflet in a larger because, ‘not having 136 known major match appearances. His brother Regency Canal so the ground was moved again to its format please contact the tourist John Freemantle was also a Hambledon player and present site where it opened in 1814. 1660: The Restoration of the Monarchy in England lifted lost a match the whole Visit visitwinchester.co.uk for more information on information centre on 01962 840 500 or their familes went on to play for the Alresford club for the sanctions although the church continued to disapprove of the summer, they were determined cricket in the local area and places of interest. email [email protected] generations. Andrew took on The Bat & Ball Inn in visitwinchester.co.uk playing of the game on Sundays. to preserve their fame entire throughout the season.’ Hambledon in his thirties.