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R. Cotton's Ground, Newmarket

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R. Cotton's Ground, Newmarket

Location
  
Newmarket, Cambridgeshire

Establishment
  
1864 (first recorded match)

R. Cotton's Ground (also known today as The Severals) is a cricket ground in Newmarket, Cambridgeshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1864, when a combined Cambridge and Yorkshire team played a combined Kent and Nottinghamshire team in the grounds only first-class match. The first Minor Counties Championship match held on the ground was in 1908, when Cambridgeshire played Suffolk. From 1908 to 1911, the ground hosted 4 Minor Counties Championship matches, with the final Minor Counties fixture seeing Cambridgeshire entertain Suffolk.

References

R. Cotton's Ground, Newmarket Wikipedia