Cricket
One of the earliest references to cricket in Cornwall is 1816 and Sir William Pratt Call of Whiteford House in Stoke Climsland, organised a match against the Plymouth Garrison, and noted:- tea and a meal in a marquee at 6 o'clock. Cornwall County Cricket Club competes in the Minor Counties Championship, the second tier National County structure. There is also a Cornwall Cricket League.
Notable Cornish cricketers include the following:
- Jack Crapp, England cricketer
- Malcolm Dunstan, former First Class cricketer with Gloucestershire CCC (began at Troon Cricket Club)
- Neil Edwards, First Class cricketer with Somerset CCC
- Carl Gazzard, First Class cricketer with Somerset CCC
- Pasty Harris, First Class cricketer
- Michael Munday, First Class cricketer with Somerset CCC
- Anthony Penberthy, former First Class cricketer with Northamptonshire CCC
- Jack Richards, England cricketer
- Charlie Shreck, First Class cricketer with Nottinghamshire CCC
- Marcus Trescothick, England cricketer of Cornish lineage.
Read more about this topic: Sport In Cornwall
Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)