Lewes Priory is a

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club based in

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. The club is based at the Stanley Turner Ground, Kingston road, Lewes. The Saturday 1st XI plays in the 2nd division of the

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. The Saturday 2nd XI plays in the 2nd XI Division 2 of the Sussex Cricket League. The Saturday 3rd XI plays in Division 9 of the East Sussex Cricket League. There is also a Sunday XI and an occasional midweek XI that play friendly matches. LewesprioryccCap

Lewes Priory has a large junior section and was clubmark accredited until October 2014. The club runs sides from under-8s/9s to an under-16 development XI Quite a few of the Lewes Priory junior players play area cricket, eastern eagles, southern sabres etc. The current under 16 team features a player who plays for sussex academy. Lewes Priory is associated with the annual wandering side Lewes Nomads. In the summer of 2013 and 2014 their tour is to the

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. Some matches are held at Falmer. Lewes (and the locations of the home games of Lewes Priory Cricket Club) are six minutes by train/bus from the

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Honours

*Sussex Cricket League **Premier Division champions 1986, 1990 **Division 2 champions 1999, 2006, 2008

History

The origin of the club extends back to at least 1831 when Mr J. Longford (one of the local brewers) bought 10 acres of the Lewes Priory Grounds from the Earl of Chichester and made some of the grounds known as the ' Dripping Pan' available for cricket LewesPriorycricketclubcap(pre1945)

Timeline of club history

Club captains

1960 H. Pett 1961 J. Winter 1962 J. Winter 1963 R. C. Cosham 1964 R. C. Cosham 1965 R. C. Cosham 1966 J. O'Connor 1967 J. O'Connor 1968 J. O'Connor 1969 R. C. Cosham 1970 S. B. Hughes 1972 S. B. Hughes 1973 C. H. Johnson 1974 C. H. Johnson 1975 J. O'Connor 1976 J. O'Connor 1977 J. O'Connor 1978 J. O'Connor 1979 J. O'Connor 1980 J. Leckey 1981 B. Holding 1982 B. Holding 1983 B. Holding 1984 R. Seager 1985 R. Seager 1986 R. Seager 1987 R. Seager 1988 C. Hartridge 1989 C. Hartridge 1990 J. Roycroft 1991 J. Roycroft 2000 K. Ibrahim 2001 K. Ibrahim 2002 M. Murray 2003 M. Murray 2004 M. Murray 2005 M. Murray 2006 M. Murray 2007 M. Murray 2008 M. Murray 2009 M. Murray 2010 C. Baker 2011 M. Murray 2012 T. Sharp 2013 R. Eborn 2014 J. Bates 2015 unknown 2016 I. Khan 2017 I. Khan 2018 I. Khan Lewespriorycricketclub1981anniversarycapandtie

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Club Presidents

To 1981 Rt Hon. Viscount Gage KCVO 1982-1985 S. B. Hughes, Esq 1986-1984 J. P. Beilby, Esq 1995-1996 R. J. Hayward 1996-1999 R. C. Cosham 2000 to date J. A. O'Connor

Notable members

* Herbert Whitfield *

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* George Spillman represented Middlesex CCC. Died c1911 * George Kent (1907-1980): Captain of Lewes Priory Cricket Club and Lewes Rugby Football Club. Kent served as president of the Sussex County Rugby Football Club, was a committee member of the

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, chairman of the Lewes Building Society and the Sussex County Building Society. He was Conservative district counsellor for Kingston in 1973 and served as chairman of Lewes District Council * Brian Lessiter played cricket for

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and Sussex second eleven. * Jon Roycroft director of sport at

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played for Leicestershire. Play for Lewes Priory CC for two seasons as opening batsman (his batting average in one year was 54; the next 61) * Les Bampton a leg spin and googly bowler who captained the Club Cricket Conference for several years. Took 300 wickets twice in a season

Sussex CCC players

Since 1938 at least six Lewes Priory players have played for Sussex, including: * Doug Smith fast bowler who played for sussex before the second world war * D.J. Smith * P.G. Laker * Ralph Cowen: Oxford blue at cricket and football who was at the receiving end of the fastest goal (at that time) scored at Wembley. He also took 6 wickets for 19 runs bowling Sussex to victory against the Aussies. One of his victim was Alan Border *

Carl Hopkinson Carl Hopkinson (born 14 September 1981) is a former English cricketer and current coach. He was a right-handed batsman (cricket), batsman and a right-arm Seam bowling, medium pace bowler. He was also an extremely talented fielder. Born in Sus ...

current fielding coach at Sussex CCC * Paul Phillipson

England players

Rosalie Birch Rosalie Anne Birch (born 6 December 1983) is an English former cricketer who played as a right-arm off break bowler and right-handed lower middle order batter. She appeared in 7 Test matches, 37 One Day Internationals and 4 Twenty20 Internati ...

Overseas players and members

* K.G.N. (Kyron) Lynch (Trinidad & Tobago) *

Amit Jaggernauth Amit Sheldon Jaggernauth (born 16 November 1983) is a former West Indian cricketer who featured as an off spinner. Jaggernauth mainly played as a first-class cricketer for Trinidad and Tobago. Career In recent years, Jaggernauth has been one o ...

(Trinidad & Tobago offspinner) *

Rayad Emrit Rayad Ryan Emrit (born 8 March 1981) is a West Indian cricketer. Emrit has represented the West Indies Senior team, making his first ODI appearance just a year after his regional debut in 2007. Emrit maintained discipline and motivation and defied ...

(Trinidad & Tobago off) * Suren Perera (Sri Lanka and Ragama cricket club) *

Kashif Ibrahim Kashif Ibrahim (born 16 November 1977) is a former Pakistani cricketer. Ibrahim was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Karachi, Sindh Province. Ibrahim made his first-class debut for Karachi Whites agains ...

Indrajit Coomaraswamy Indrajit Coomaraswamy ( ta, இந்திரஜித் குமாரசுவாமி, si, ඉන්ද්‍රජිත් කුමාරස්වාමි; born 3 April 1950) is a Sri Lankan economist and the 14th Governor of the Cen ...

* John Boyd played top grade cricket for Waverley cricket club in Sydney, Australia LPCCtourofDenmark1985sticker

References

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External links

Official website:
Lewes Priory CC
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