Location Cheam, London Establishment 1864 | Capacity 8,000 | |
Address Cheam Cricket Club, Cheam Sports Club Peaches Cl, Sutton SM2 7BJ, United Kingdom Similar Carshalton Beeches railway st, Wimbledon Cricket Club Gro, Sports Ground - Woodbrid, The Oval, Wimbledon Profiles | ||
Cheam Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Cheam, London (formerly Surrey). The first recorded match on the ground was in 1940, when Cheam played London Counties.
More recently, the ground has held Surrey Second XI matches in the Second XI Championship and the Second XI Trophy.
In 1968, the ground held a game for John Edrich against the International Cavaliers. The game attracted 8,000 people and was the first cricket match to be televised in colour by the BBC.
The Surrey Cricket Board played 2 List-A matches at the ground, the first of which came against Norfolk in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. Their second List-A match at the ground came in the 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy against Huntingdonshire.
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