School Field Ground is a sports ground owned by Cranbrook School located in the town of Cranbrook, Kent, England. It is known by the school as Big Side Playing Field.Sport @ Cranbrook, Cranbrook School, Kent. Retrieved 5 December 2017. The field, which is in size, and located south of Quaker Lane, is used by the school for cricket, rugby union and hockey.Site Summary Sheet: Site 129 Big Side Playing Field adjacent to Quaker Lane and Waterloo Road, Cranbrook, Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish Sites, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
Cricket history The ground has been used as a cricket field since at least the mid 19th century, at which point it was in private hands.Milton, Howard (1979). Kent cricket grounds, in The Cricket Statistician, no.28, December 1979, pp.2–10. Kent County Cricket Club played two first-class cricket matches on a ground specifically prepared on the site, one in 1850 and the other in 1851, both against England XIs.Milton, Howard (2020). Kent County Cricket Grounds, p.210. Woking: Pitch Publishing. First-Class Matches played on School Field, Cranbrook, CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 December 2017. Kent also played two first-class matches at nearby Swifts Park in 1862–63.Grounds Records in Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017, pp.210–211. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
The ground has been used by the school since the 1940s, including for matches against teams such as MCC. A South African Universities team and a South Africa Schools XI played on the ground in 1967 whilst apartheid was in operation. In July 1968, Free Foresters played a United States team on the ground.Other matches played on School Field, Cranbrook, CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
References
External links School Field Ground on Cricinfo