Reigate Priory Cricket Club Ground

Reigate Priory Cricket Club Ground
Ground information
Location	Reigate, Surrey
Establishment	1853 (first recorded match)
Team information
Surrey	(1909)
HDG Leveson-Gower's XI	(1924 & 1934-1936)
	As of 29 August 2010; Source: Ground profile

Reigate Priory Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Reigate, Surrey. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1853, when East Surrey played West Sussex.^[1] It hosted its first first-class match in 1909, when Surrey played Oxford University. The next first-class match came in 1924 when HDG Leveson-Gower's XI played the touring South Africans. HDG Leveson-Gower's XI returned to the Priory toplay first-class matches in 1934, where they played 3 further matches from 1934 to 1936, playing their final first-class match there against Oxford University.^[2]

Additionally, during a number of periods in the 20th and early 21st century, the ground played host to a number of Surrey Second XI matches in the Minor Counties Championship, Second XI Championship and Second XI Trophy, hosting a combined total of 13 Second XI matches.^[3]^[4]^[5]

In local domestic cricket, Reigate Priory is the home venue of who play in the Surrey Championship Premier Division.^[6] During World War II the ground was damaged in The Blitz.^[7]

Reigate Priory Cricket club has also fielded many famous names over the years like W. G. Grace, Zubin Bharucha and Jason Roy.