Sonning Lane
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Location | Sonning, Berkshire | ||||||
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Only WODI | 24 July 1993: England v Ireland | ||||||
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As of 6 September 2020 Source: Ground profile |
Sonning Lane is a
Sonny Lane is the home of Reading Cricket Club. In 1988
The ground is also the home of Reading Hockey Club who enter teams in both the Men's and Women's England Hockey Leagues. The ground has also hosted several men's and women's international matches.
Cricket
In local domestic cricket, Sonning Lane is the home ground of Reading Cricket Club who play in the
The first
In 1993, the ground played host to a match between the England women's cricket team and the Ireland women's cricket team in 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup.[4]
Reading Cricket Club has seen several of its players progress into professional and international cricket. Martin Andersson is the most recent, having started as a colt at Reading, and now having signed a two-year professional contract with Middlesex County Cricket Club, which will take him to 2020.[5] Gareth Harte, Dan Housego, and Aftab Habib have all played professional cricket having played for Reading, the later playing two tests for England.
Hockey
References
- ^ Reading Cricket Club
- ^ Minor Counties Championship Matches played on Sonning Lane
- ^ List A Matches played on Sonning Lane
- ^ England Women v Ireland Women, 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup
- ^ "MARTIN ANDERSSON AWARDED TWO YEAR PROFESSIONAL CONTRACT". www.middlesexccc.com. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ Reading Hockey Club
- ^ England Hockey League—Players: teams currently entered in the EHL Archived 22 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine, England Hockey
- ^ Great Britain Men to Play Poland in Reading, Great Britain Hockey, 8 January 2008.
External links
- Sonning Lane on Cricinfo
- Sonning Lane on CricketArchive