52 Park Drive, Central, Gqeberha is presently home to the Union Cricket Club.
The world-class 18 500-seater St Georges Park Cricket stadium, set within the grounds of the beautiful St George’s Park, is testament to citizens of Gqeberha whose love of the game began with the arrival of the British settlers.
The English troops ”en route” to occupy South Africa in 1795 brought cricket bats and balls along with them in their trunks as an essential part of their kit. Likewise during their second occupation in 1809, they packed their cricket bats with their martial kit.
There is a legend about one of the early 1820 Settlers wading through the surf of Algoa Bay to the shores of his new homeland, cricket bat held aloft to ensure that it would not get wet.
A few months after the Port Elizabeth Cricket Club was established in 1859, the Port Elizabeth town council agreed to … Read the full article here: NMB Wiki
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