Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground

Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground
Location Bray, Ireland
Establishment 1907 (first recorded match)
As of 29 August 2011
Source: Ground profile

Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground was a cricket ground in Bray, Ireland. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1907, when Ireland played Yorkshire in a first-class match.[1] Further first-class matches where held on the ground in 1909 when SH Cochrane's XI played the touring Australians, there were three further in 1912 when Woodbrook Club and Ground played the touring South Africans, Ireland played the same opposition, and C.B. Fry's XI played the touring Australians.[1] This was the last recorded match on the ground.

Fred Stedman was employed at the ground as a groundsman for ten years.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "First-Class Matches played on Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground, Bray". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  2. "Wisden - Other deaths in 1918". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 August 2011.

Coordinates: 53°11′22.41″N 6°06′39.15″W / 53.1895583°N 6.1108750°W / 53.1895583; -6.1108750

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