#ground history

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First Match at the Saffrons, Eastbourne — 1832

Eastbourne club fixtures

1832-08-01

In 1832 the first recorded cricket match was played on the meadow at Eastbourne known as the Saffrons, named for the saffron crocuses once grown there. The ground would become one of the longest continuously used cricket venues in England and the regular home of Eastbourne Cricket Club, hosting Sussex county fixtures and, in the twentieth century, Australian touring sides.

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Lord's Moves to St John's Wood — Thomas Lord's Third Ground, May 1814

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1814-05-07

In the spring of 1814 the Yorkshireman Thomas Lord, evicted from his Middle Ground in Marylebone by the route of the Regent's Canal, dug up his sacred turf for the second time in three years and laid it down on a former duck pond on Colonel Henry Eyre's estate at St John's Wood. The new ground — Lord's third — opened in May 1814. It has stood on the same site for more than two hundred years and is now the senior cricket ground in the world.

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