Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week

Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week is a week-long festival of cricket during which Kent County Cricket Club play their home matches at Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club's Nevill Ground in Royal Tunbridge Wells.[1] Games held during it are considered some of Kent's most popular fixtures.[2] Historically the event has usually been held in May or June but moved to July in 2015.

History

The cricket week has been running since 1902, with a festival being held the previous year to celebrate the opening of the Nevill Ground.[3]This is currently one of Kent's two outgrounds with all other home matches being played at the St. Lawrence Ground in Canterbury.

The week has had a poem written about it.[4]

Cricket

A traditional cricket week at The Nevill Ground usually comprised one County Championship game and one limited overs game. With the advent of Twenty20 cricket, the one day game was replaced with a Twenty20 game. In some years Kent have played an extra one day or T20 game during the week.[5][6]

Games during the Tunbridge Wells Festival week are often high-scoring with the pitch at the Nevill Ground sometimes being considered a "batting paradise".[7] This could be seen during the 2010 County Championship game against Nottinghamshire, where 1242 runs were scored despite the game being hit with rain.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week. "Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week". BBC. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  2. ↑ Gidley, Andrew (2010-06-03). "Tunbridge Wells Festival Week can pull in the crowds for Kent". Kent Messenger. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  3. ↑ "Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club, cricket, kent, uk". Tunbridge Wells cricket club. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  4. ↑ Hopps, David (2010-06-04). "County cricket – as it happened". Guardian. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  5. ↑ "Two Twenty20 fixtures feature at 'special' Tunbridge Wells festival". Your Tunbridge Wells. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  6. ↑ "Reduction in Twenty20 cricket a major blow to Kent". Your Canterbury. 2011-03-23. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  7. ↑ Garrett, Glenn (2011-04-15). "For struggling Kent, a week playing cricket in Tunbridge Wells could be just what the doctor ordered". Thisiskent.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  8. ↑ "Nottinghamshire meander to draw with Kent". BBC Sport. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
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