A brief history of Cricket clubs in and cricket in Winchester around Winchester Winchester City Council has two venues available for CRICKET cricket hire. These are King George V and North Walls Recreation Ground. Both sites offer two cricket pitches with pavilion provision. Winchester College’s cricketing legacy For more information telephone 01962 848 231 or visit: www.winchester.gov.uk 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. In 1845, a College team was reputed to have been surprised when they played a Basingstoke team who won the match by To see local clubs in action please using a catapult instead of a bowler. Regular matches between Winchester, Eton and Harrow began in 1825. contact the organisations direct. The history of cricket in the city of Winchester closely mirrors For a full listing of all local clubs the changes in its evolution. At the time that Robert Matthew simply contact Winchester & wrote his poem in 1647 which refers to Winchester’s College District Cricket Clubs Association pupils playing on St Catherine’s Hill, it was a casual sport on 01264 390 100 or visit: played by boys. www.sporthampshireiow.co.uk Bishop’s Waltham Cricket Club By the 1770s, Winchester was regularly fielding adult cricket When Hampshire County Cricket Club looked into renovating Douglas Jardine The Ashton Brothers Roger Winlaw Hubert Doggart OBE Mansur Ali Khan ‘Tiger’ ‘And when the game's 01489 877 670 teams: it is recorded that in 1774 Winchester refused to allow (1900-1958) (1912-1942) (b.1925) Pataudi (b.1941) Southampton’s old County Ground in 1987, it was agreed that ‘We thank thee, we praise o'er, and our fate shall www.bishopswaltham-cc.co.uk Bishop’s Waltham to finish a match on Twyford Down As an English cricketer and thee, we bless thee O Lord, for The decade after Claude Hubert Doggart was Born into an Indian royal the demands placed upon the pavilion and grounds had captain of the England cricket Hubert, Percy, Gilbert and Ashton left Winchester educated at Winchester household, Mansur Ali Khan draw nigh (for the Chawton Cricket Club although only six runs were needed. Rather than throw the team in the early 1930s, Claude,’ - so goes the old College, Winlaw became a College and King's College, a Pataudi completed his outgrown the facilities. Thirteen years and £24m later, The Rose 01420 855 19 Jardine, an Old Wykehamist Winchester College song, and high profile member of the Cambridge blue in five education at Winchester heroes of cricket, like match away, the Waltham players stayed overnight and (the name given to for good reason. Sporting Winchester College cricket different sports and captain College after inheriting the Bowl opened. others, must die), St Cross Symondians ‘Let's join in the praise of the bat and the wicket, subsequently warned other teams against playing such Winchester College alumni) is prowess ran in the Ashton eleven. in four. titular dignity of Nawab of perhaps best known for family - all four brothers were Pataudi upon his father’s Our bats we'll resign, The Rose Bowl has been home to many international cricketers [email protected] and sing in full chorus the patrons of cricket...’ unreasonable opponents. captaining the English squad Blues at Cambridge and also Between 1928 and 1931, he He taught at Winchester death. during its 1932-33 Ashes excelled in football. Gilbert, won the Public Schools College (1950-1972) while neither troubled nor since the move from the old County Ground in 2001. The www.stcrosscc.co.uk tour of Australia. Hubert and Claude all Doubles with HJH Lamb, the maintaining a successful After playing for Oxford, he first Wykehamist pair to do amateur cricket career for went on to captain the Indian vex'd, and give up our legendary Shane Warne played with Hampshire from 2000- Hambledon Cricket Club In 1796 we know that a match took place between the captained the university team His team employed the in the three consecutive so. He captained in his last Cambridge University and national side at 21 and wickets to those that 2007. Club captain for four years, Warne was joined by fellow [email protected] Games akin to cricket have been played on the fields of tradesmen of Winchester and the tradesmen of controversial ‘body line’ seasons from 1921 to 1923. two seasons, heading the Sussex Cricket Clubs. Doggart played 310 matches, scoring technique (where the bowler batting and bowling went on to represent England 15,425 runs, his highest come next.’ Australian internationals Simon Katich, Shane Watson and www.hambledoncricketclub.com England since the middle ages, but a game called 'crecket' Southampton, marking the shift in the game from a deliberately aimed the cricket Awarded the Military Cross in averages in 1930. Winlaw in two Test matches in 1950 being 203 (not-out). Mansur first appears in 1598. ball at the body of the the first world war, Hubert went on to play for and has held many offices in Khan made his Test debut Stuart Clark. Old Alresford Cricket Club children’s game to an adult’s sport, popular with working batsman), tactics employed (1898-1979) went on to play Cambridge University and sports administration, such as against England at Delhi in 01962 733 612 to neutralise the opposing for Essex scoring more than later Surrey and, like Ashton President of the MCC (1981- December 1961. Following Hampshire also has a strong history of developing England Hampshire’s own cricketing history owes much to the men. Another match between local tradesmen was recorded Australian batsmen, 1,000 runs in both 1921 and before him, also played 1982). his retirement, Mansur Ali legacy of the Hambledon and Alresford cricket clubs and in 1856 at Oliver’s Battery when a team representing the particularly Don Bradman, 1922. He was knighted in football for Corinthians. In a Khan Pataudi became the players: the likes of Robin Smith, Shaun Udal, Chris Tremlett West Meon Cricket Club and which caused a veritable 1959 in recognition of his final tragic coincidence, Indian national cricket coach 01730 829 689 the pre-eminent players educated at Winchester College. town north of the High Street played against another from storm in the cricketing world. services as an MP. Winlaw died in the same (1974-75) and later refereed and Dimitri Mascarenhas have all represented their country. fatal plane crash that took ICC matches. www.westmeon.org.uk the south side. In 1923, Claude (1901- 1942, the life of Claude Ashton who After joining Hampshire in 2004, Kevin Pietersen broke into the This leaflet offers you an opportunity to trace the history of pictured above) succeeded was piloting. Wickham Cricket Club Percy as captain of the England set up, leading to a controversial period as captain of the development of the sport across the county. Why not 01329 834 398 university’s cricket team the national side. As the game became more popular, its following among the amassing 916 runs and make Winchester your base as you uncover the fascinating gentry grew and this is reflected in the number of Winchester claiming 50 wickets with his Winchester City Council's tourism service would like to thank the following landmarks of cricket dotted across Hampshire? medium-pace bowling, In 2006 The Rose Bowl hosted the Twenty20 international individuals and organisations for their help in producing this leaflet: Graham College pupils who rose to prominence in the sport. We take together with 21 catches. He * Scobie, Winchester City Council's Historic Information Officer; Dave Savage, played for Essex between against Sri Lanka and, following a successful planning Winchester City Council's Sports Facilities Officer; Charles Inglis; Guy Ashton; a look at some of these noted players… 1934 and 1938, his career application, was awarded Test venue status by the England and Penny McPherson and her colleagues at Winchester College; the marketing team at cut tragically short when he The Rose Bowl. The two excerpts from a poem featured on the front cover and in died in a mid-air training Wales Cricket Board. It will host its first Test match, England vs the Winchester College feature are taken from a work written in 1776 by The accident during the Second Reverend Reynell Cotton (1717-1796) School Master of Hyde School, World War. Sri Lanka, in 2011 to a crowd of up to 25,000 people. Winchester and President of the Hambledon Club in 1773 and 1774. For more information, including forthcoming music and CUS0071-28576 April 2009 Produced by Winchester City Council’s Corporate sporting events, please visit www.rosebowlplc.com. Communications Team in association with Byron Elliott and printed by www.cricketingwinchester.co.uk Culverlands Press, Winchester. © Winchester City Council 2009 Alton Hambledon remained the pre-eminent club until the M3 It is the place where How to plan your visit to The Hambledon era formation of Marylebone Cricket Club and the Rules and regulations 4 a simple country the cradle of cricket 1750s: Formed as a private club by noblemen and country gentry, opening of Lord’s Cricket Ground in 1787. Although 1760-1771: During the period of Hambledon’s pastime finally left its Hambledon Parish Club grew in prominence and Hambledon Cricket Club not the first great cricket club in England, the primacy, several rule changes occurred that turned The map shown on the right is designed to help you plan your Hambledon is the earliest of which we have origins behind and was founded in the 1760s.