About Fernhurst Cricket Club

The Fernhurst Cricket Club play on the Recreation Ground adjacent to the Village Green and 'The Red Lion' public house, which is a five minute walk down Church Road from the village centre. It is a friendly, well established club in an idyllic setting with first class facilities. They field one Saturday team which plays in the I'Anson Cricket League Div 3 and a Sunday team which plays friendly cricket against several other local village clubs, as well as entertaining a number of teams from the London area, including Sir Tim Rice's Heartaches. The pavilion is fairly modern with reasonable size changing rooms and a shower room, a nice sized lounge area together with a kitchen and licensed bar. It also has it's own car park adjacent to the pavilion. The ground itself is quite large as it boasts two football pitches in the winter and is renowned to have one of the best wickets in the I'Anson League. For visitors who bring families, there is also a fenced-in childrens play area with swings etc. The History of Fernhurst Cricket Club 1889 - 2008
The earliest records of the club date back to the year 1889 in which matches were recorded against Lynchmere, Wispers and the The Marshes. In the early years, apart from annual challenge matches against the Ashurst Estate for the Ashurst Cup(1919 - 1928) and latterly against Verdley/ICI (1950 - 1970), only friendly cricket was played. In 1975 an Evening League was formed to play for the Ashurst Cup and that was when Fernhurst CC first entered competitive cricket. Between 1975 and 1993 they won the League six times and the Knockout Shield four times. In 1997, Fernhurst joined the I'Anson League and won the 4^th Division Title. The following year they were runners up to Cranleigh St.Andrews in Division 3. Success continued in 1999 with the 2^ndDivision Championship and with it the Herald Shield.		With a newly formed 2^nd X1, the millennium year 2000 saw Fernhurst in both Divisions 1 and 5 of the I'Anson League and continuing success with the 1st X1 finishing 5^th and the 2^nd X1 carrying off the Norman Disney Trophy as Division 5 Champions. In 2001 the 1^st X1 finished 6th in Division 1 and the 2^nd X1 won Division 4 and the Bob Birchett Shield. In 2003 the 2nd X1 was disbanded though a shortage of players and the 1st X1 was relegated to Division 2. Three poor seasons were followed by relegation to Division 3 in 2006. However in 2007, some of the junior players (15 - 17 year olds) began to shine and under the captaincy of Mike Allen finished 6^th in Division 3, the last eight games being negotiated without defeat.