Celebrity Cricket Match at Winchelsea featuring Miriam Karlin, best known for her role as Paddy in The Rag Trade, was on the microphone.
Category: Cricket
Cricket from the Rye’s Own archive, bringing together club history, memorable matches, familiar players and the grounds on which the local game was played. The collection ranges from celebratory occasions to long views of Rye cricket, keeping the personalities and social life around the scorecard firmly in the picture.
Rye Cricket Club
By Martin Blincow. Rye Cricket Club is the oldest sporting institution in the town, and one of the oldest Cricket Clubs in the world having been founded in 1754. The club started life playing at Camber Castle, before moving to play on Gibbets Marsh. The arrival of the railway then forced a second relocation in … Continue reading Rye Cricket Club
250 Years Of Rye Cricket
By M. C. G. Thomas Part Two 1901 Players included F. Phillips, W Clarke, R Bloomfield, A. Adams, R Burra, L Ashburnham & C. Longley 1902 Cricket Week v T. Oyler’s XI, Charlton Park, New Romney, & Lydd Camp…F. Phillips 113 * v T. Oyler’s XI (F. Phillips was killed in the 1st World War)