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Hampshire
Grounds (Minor and Non First-Class)
Excerpts from Cricket Grounds of Hampshire
Statistics by Victor H Isaacs (ACS Publications 1988)
[Hampshire Main Grounds ]
[Other Early Hampshire Grounds]
[Southampton - Daniel Day's Itchen Ground]
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Non First-Class Grounds
Other
Early Hampshire GroundsKilmiston
Down
About eight miles east of Winchester and adjacent to Thomas
Ridge's House, Kilmiston Manor, one game was staged at the site on
September 4th 1775 between Hambledon Town and Hampshire.
Cheden
Holt
Situated between Hambledon village and Broadhalfpenny Down,
this ground was according to the reports prepared at great expence, but
by whom it is not clear, or who was the tenant at the time. The only
match being on 22nd - 24th July 1776 between Hampshire and England.
Odiham
The
Reading Mercury of July 7, 1788 announces that a match will take place
between Hampshire and Surrey for 100 guineas on Odiham Down. No other
reference to this match seems to be extant. The first known match on
Odiham Common took place in 1764, when the Reading Mercury notes a match
will be played on Oct 3, Odiham v Bramshot for 11 guineas a side. The
'new ground' on Odiham Down was made in 1780, but by the middle of the
19th century matches had reverted to the common. In the 1870's, Odiham
played in the Park, but moved back to the Common in 1880. In 1898 a
piece of ground on the common was especially fenced off for the use of
cricket.
Bramshill
The cricket ground in the park
of Bramshill was laid about 1810, either by Sir Denzil Cope, or by his
brother Sir John Cope, who succeeded to the title when Sir Denzil died
in 1812. The following three major matches were staged on the ground:
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| 1823 |
Aug
14-18 |
Hampshire
v England |
| 1825 |
Aug
15 |
Hampshire
v Sussex |
| 1826 |
Aug
7 |
Hampshire
& Surrey v Sussex
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The
great days of Bramshill Cricket Club seem to have ended in the 1850's,
when Sir John Cope died, but cricket seems to have been played there
fairly regularly since then. The house is now occupied by the Police
College and the ground is still in use.
Southampton
- Daniel Day's Itchen GroundIn
1845, Daniel Day moved from the Antelope Ground at the Woolston Hotel on
the south side of Woolston Road, Itchen, only a few hundred yards across
the river from Southampton. He converted the field on the East side of
the Hotel into a cricket ground and the first match staged on the ground
was in April 1846 when Married of Southampton played the Single. A
pavilion was built on the north side of the ground, the size of the
ground being about 6 acres. The lease of the hotel ran out in 1851 and
Day, who claimed he had spent between £1,000 and £1,200 on
cricket, decided the ground was not viable and moved to Southsea to
manage the East Hampshire Ground there. Day's ground at Itchen was built
over in the 1850s. The Woolston Hotel changed its name to the Railway
Hotel in the 1870s, but since the Second World War it has been known as
the Huntsman.
The details of the only two matches played on
the ground, which are listed in the ACS Guide to Important Matches
1707-1863 are:
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| 1848 |
England
Eleven 93 (D.Day 4/20) and 22 (F Bathurst 6/13, D.Day 4/9) drew with XIV
of Hampshire 53 (W.Hillyer 8/26) and 44-12 (W.Hillyer 6/22, J.Wisden
5/17). |
| 1850 |
XIV
of Hampshire 74 & 57 (W.Hillyer 8 wkts) lost to England Eleven 131
(J.Guy 46, F.Bathurst 6 wkts, D.Day 4 wkts) and 1-1 by 9 wickets. |
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