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Hampshire: a county that gave birth to a great game

Cricket’s origin is dated back to a rural village in Hampshire according to material found from 1700s. Hambledon Club for the first time in the history organized cricket as a...

Middlesex; home for some of England’s finest captains

Middlesex County Cricket Club was established in the year 1864  by a group of London based gentlemen in a tavern. Walker brothers of Southgate were instrumental in playing a pivotal...

Lord’s; the Home of Cricket

Every cricketer has one dream; to play a game at Lord’s. Every cricket reporter has one dream; to cover a match at Lord’s. Every fan of the great game has...

Surrey: rich in history, tradition and a formidable force in cricket

An More than 400 years ago, in 1611, King James I gave to his son Henry, Prince of Wales, the manor Kennington, where the home ground of Surrey – The...

Kent; rich with tradition, icons and cricketing folklore

Cricket is believed to have originated when kids engaged in ball games around Kent, Sussex and Surrey. These three counties were the first centers of the sport. The first ever...

Yorkshire; the heartbeat of English cricket

Yorkshire pride themselves as world’s most famous cricket club. Perhaps rightly so too as the club’s cricket ground – Headingley is part of cricketing folklore while the club itself has...

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