Cricket International at Fenner’s

The Sri Lankan national cricket team will be playing the inaugural match of their UK tour against a British Universities XI at Fenner’s in Cambridge.

The three day match begins today and marks what is becoming a traditional way to start the cricket season at Fenner's. Last year the ground hosted the Bangladeshi team for their first tour match, and the year before that New Zealand.

The University Cricket Ground has hosted first class cricket for more than 100 years. Throughout this time many of the world's great players have graced the wicket with their skills.

Such household names as Peter May, Lord David Sheppard, Ted Dexter, Mike Brearley, Majod Jahangir Khan, Derek Pringle, John Crawley, Steve James and Mike Atherton are among the international players who have played and developed their skills at Fenner's.

Today Fenner's continues that tradition, albeit in a new era and a more professional game. The ground is home to the newly established MCC Universities Centre of Cricketing Excellence, a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University and the MCC.

The ground still remains the home of Cambridge University Cricket Club, but now also embraces a number of other clubs and representative teams as it increasingly becomes the focus of cricket development, not only within universities, but in the community. The Cambridgeshire County Club and the Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Schools play matches and Championship finals at Fenner's; the Cambridgeshire Cricket Board hold courses at Fenner's; and it is the home of Cambridge University Women's Cricket Club.