A Spring game against The Saints in 2008, Matt Sturman and Glen Duggan walking towards the pavilion, and Mike Beardall and Graham Peach...

On 23 September 1771, amidst the flint and flannel of Georgian Surrey, a bat was raised, not in triumph, but in challenge. It was wider...

On this day in 1756, Rover the dog was lost during a cricket match at Broadhalfpenny Down, and a reward was offered for his recovery—the...

By Bill Evershed At first, I thought I had become a victim of the Great Grey Granite Slabs Scam. But it all turned out fine when the...

In 1908, following the erection of the Monument to the Glory of Cricket, W R Weir published The Cradle of Cricket; a Hambledon Souvenir....

In 1951, Henty & Constable published a book about The Hambledon Club and The Bat & Ball Inn written by Dianna Rait Kerr. It described...

Edited from an article first published in The Telegraph by Scyld Berry The Bat and Ball Inn was a most hospitable hostelry when grand...