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Essex CCC at the Old County Ground
Brentwood was the original county ground in the days before Essex CCC was
first-class. Forty-six years after the 1876 formation of the Club, the inaugural
first-class match was between Essex and Dublin University in July 1922. The
match was drawn but C J H Tregdown made his highest score for Essex (77)
and J G Dixon (7-61) also produced the best return of his career, in his
final season with the County. It was only when Essex moved away from Leyton
that first-class cricket returned to Brentwood in 1934. The list of records
up to the last match with Worcestershire in May 1969 are worth recording.
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| First-class matches:
| Played 58; Won 21; Drawn 21; Lost 15; Tied 1
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| County Championship matches:
| Played 51; Won 17; Drawn 19; Lost 14; Tied 1
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| Tied match:
| v Lancashire in 1952
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| Highest Total:
| 803 for 4 declared by Kent in 1934
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| Lowest Total:
| 34 v Kent in 1969
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| Highest Score:
| 332 by W H Ashdown for Kent in 1934
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| Best Bowling:
| 9 for 61 by K D Boyce v Cambridge University in 1966
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| Best Match Bowling:
| 15 for 161 for Glamorgan in 1948
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| Highest Partnership:
| 352 for 2nd wicket by W H Ashdown & F E Woolley for Kent in 1934
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There are many other standards that still remain. These include records for
any cricket ground, first-class records for and against Essex plus much more
at a venue that Trevor Bailey described as, "Like a Barbie Doll, pretty, but
so petite that when batting from the pavilion end a straight six was not
more than a chip with a nine iron. Strangely, this short boundary proved
to be a wicket-taker, because so many batsmen simply could not resist the
temptation and holed out."
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