Establishment 1859 (first recorded match) | ||
B. M. Close's Ground was a cricket ground at Southborough in the English county of Kent. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1859, when Tunbridge Wells played a New All-England Eleven. In 1867, Kent County Cricket Club played a county match against Hampshire in the ground's only first-class cricket match.
The final recorded match held on the ground saw Southborough play a team of Surrey Professionals in 1879. In the 1930s the site of the ground was built on and a housing estate covers the general area of the ground today.
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B. M. Close's Ground Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA