Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground
Encyclopedia
Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground was a cricket
ground in Bray, Republic of Ireland
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1907, when Ireland played Yorkshire
in a first-class
match. 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. This was the last recorded match on the ground.
Fred Stedman
was employed at the ground as a groundsman for ten years.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
ground in Bray, Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1907, when Ireland played Yorkshire
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....
in a first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
match. 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. This was the last recorded match on the ground.
Fred Stedman
Fred Stedman
Fred Stedman was an English cricketer. A wicket-keeper and tail-end batsman, his first-class career extended from 1899 to 1912...
was employed at the ground as a groundsman for ten years.
External links
- Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground, Bray at CricketArchiveCricketArchiveCricketArchive is a website that aims to provide a comprehensive archive of records relating to the sport of cricket. It claims to be the most comprehensive cricket database on the internet, including scorecards for all matches of first-class cricket , List A cricket , Women's Test cricket and...