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A brief history of Lymington Cricket Club shirts...

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Lymington Cricket Club was founded way back in 1807, but it wasn't until the late 1980s that our players first donned what might be classed as 'proper' team shirts. Up until then, for the vast majority of cricket history, players would simply wear whatever was the fashion of the day, and it wasn't necessarily white. In the earliest years of the club, during the Georgian period, shirts were big and frilly and cricketers wore colourful stocks (ties) around their necks. On their heads they would wear powdered wigs under low top hats. By the time Lymington moved their home matches from Pennington Common to the Sports Ground in 1836 players were rather more conservatively dressed. They would take to the field in waistcoats or jackets over plain white shirts and bow ties. By the 1850s, however, the posher cricket teams would start to wear colourful shirts with spots, stripes or even checks on a white background. Between 1880 and 1895 the coloured shirts disappeared and whi...
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TEARS, CHEERS AND BEERS... LYMINGTON'S PREVIOUS CUP FINAL APPEARANCES

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When Lymington take to the field at the Green Jackets Ground in Winchester on Saturday afternoon it will be the fifth time they have reached the final of local cricket's major cup competition: the Southern Premier Cricket League T20 Cup, formerly known as the Echo Trophy.  The Echo Trophy began back in 1980 and predominately featured Southern League clubs, although teams from outside the league could also apply to take part. On occasion Lymington ventured eastwards into Sussex to play Chichester Priory, and westwards into Dorset to face Colehill where, as Stewart Hand will no doubt gleefully tell you, Lymington once became the victim of a rather embarrassing giant-killing act. Each innings would consist of 24 overs or last for a maximum of one and a half hours, whichever came first. Clubs took the competition very seriously and fielded strong sides so the standard was generally very high. Being an evening competition, early season fixtures could often end in near darkness, which wa...
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THE SPORTS GROUND AT WAR

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On Sunday morning the annual remembrance day parade will pass along Southampton Road, just a few yards from the Sports Ground. This is quite fitting because, while we know that many Lymington cricketers served in the armed forces during the two world wars, it's probably not so well known that our beloved home ground also played its part during the conflicts. In this article we look at some of the events that took place on our small patch of grass in those wartime years. It might be worth mentioning that many years before World War 1 the Sports Ground had hosted war-related events. Way back in 1856 the ground (known then as the 'Cricket Field') played host to festivities to mark the end of the Crimean War. A procession of around a thousand children, led by the Lymington Town Band, left the Cricket Field on its way to the town hall (then in the High Street) where the children were 'regaled with tea and plum cake'. Then it was back to the Cricket Field for a 'Varie...
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