Tuesday 23 June 1772 was market day in Hambledon, Hampshire and on that day the first designated first-class match was due to take place...

A film about Harry Bates and the Spirit of Broadhalfpenny Down premieres The story follows Harry and his wife Nina through their final...

As a prelude to the World Cup tournament being held in England in 2019, Indian journalist Harit Joshi visited Broadhalfpenny Down for the...

A recently unearthed manuscript from the National Archive has sparked a re-evaluation of cricket's origins. The document, dating back to...

Four years ago we embarked on a plan to source beautiful photographs of Broadhalfpenny Down and put them on Wikipedia, Bing, Google and...

The Rioteers is a wandering club with a long history of cricket in the South of England; indeed this was their 60th Anniversary match...

The Times published a special edition on 25 May 1937 to celebrate 150 years since the formation of the M.C.C, featuring stories from the...

Cricket was unloved by 18th-century moralists. By the middle of the century, it had become a popular spectator sport. Much was drunk;...

In the fourth of his six-part series, esteemed crickety historian Stephen Saunders tells tales of the famous cricketers who are buried...