About Redgrave & Bressingham Cricket Club

We are a friendly club based in the beautiful North Suffolk village of Redgrave. The club plays a mixture of league and friendly fixtures on Sundays throughout the season and we have joined the Mid Norfolk Sunday League for 2009. We are always on the look out for new players, so if you would like to join the club, please contact us.

A brief history of
Redgrave and Bressingham Cricket Club

As the name suggests Redgrave and Bressingham CC is the result of a happy merger in 1995 of two cricket clubs whose villages are situated either side of the Waveney, the river separating Norfolk and Suffolk. As the population of each village is less than 500 it had become increasingly difficult for either club to field eleven players each week. While Bressingham had some money, a fast-declining membership and no facilities other than a ground the local council had conveniently sited a children's play area behind the bowler's arm, Redgrave, on the other hand, enjoyed a slightly larger pool of players. More importantly, a couple of years previously, Redgrave had received Sports Council funding for a sports ground and pavilion.

The merged club continued to eschew league cricket, restricting itself to Sunday friendlies. The ethos was a unique combination of conviviality, heavily dependent upon Adnams ales, and cricket played in the Corinthian spirit. (Batsmen were even known to have walked for an lbw shout). Redgrave and Bressingham also began to attract like-minded players: some keen to take a break from the demands of South Norfolk's Saturday league cricket, few who were, frankly, past it, while others enthusiastically turned up immaculately clad in ironed whites and carrying cherry-less bats. This combination of "talents" proved devastating for over the years the club had become increasingly difficult to beat.

However, by 2008 it had become well nigh impossible to provide a full fixture list of friendlies and the momentous decision was taken, albeit somewhat reluctantly, to join the Mid-Norfolk Sunday Cricket League (Division four) for the 2009 season.

Despite that, some traditions survive: the club continues to play a few friendlies with old foes. Post-match thirsts are still slaked at the Cross Keys in Redgrave, albeit now a Greene King hostelry, the black-tie annual dinner is still Redgrave's social - some say only - highlight of the year, and the teas are still the second-best on the circuit.