Town v. Gown; City v. Village: A History of Cricket in Cambridge – Prof Tony Watts

Speaker: Prof Tony Watts

Cambridge has had a rich cricket culture and tradition. Cambridgeshire could have been a first-class county. But Town and Gown never harnessed satisfactorily their joint resources. The University provided access to first-class cricket. There were strong city clubs, playing on high-quality college grounds run by dynasties of extraordinary groundsmen. This contrasted with the league cricket in the surrounding villages. This lecture, based on Tony Watts’s recent book, will celebrate Cambridge’s distinctive cricket tradition, analyse the changes, and describe the endeavours to sustain and develop local cricket in a new era.

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