Ashford Road was a
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
ground in
Eastbourne
Eastbourne () is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the la ...
,
Sussex. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1857, when Eastbourne played a
United All-England Eleven
The United All-England Eleven (UEE) was an English cricket team formed in 1852 by players breaking away from William Clarke's All-England Eleven (AEE). Key UEE players included John Wisden and Jemmy Dean, who became joint secretaries of the team ...
.
Sussex played
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
in the grounds first
first-class match. The second and final first-class match held at the ground was played in 1873 and was between Sussex and Kent.
First-Class Matches played on Ashford Road
/ref> The final recorded match held on the ground came in 1879 when the Eastbourne played E Christian's XI. The site is today occupied by buildings.
References
External links
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on Cricinfo
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Defunct cricket grounds in England
Sport in Eastbourne
Cricket grounds in East Sussex
Defunct sports venues in East Sussex
Sports venues completed in 1857
1857 establishments in England