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Although it is thought that a cricket club already existed in Plymouth in some form or another, it was in 1843 that Mr Mortimer Collier formed the Plymouth Cricket Club. The cricket ground was on Plymouth Hoe, where Elliott Street, Lansdowne Place and Holyrood Place now stand. In 1863 some ground at South Devon Place, in what is now Embankment Road, was secured and the team remained there until 1904, when the Club ceased to play. The Club was resuscitated in 191 courtesy of Mr Teddy Butcher, a Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club three-quarter, Mr Cyril Jinkin and Mr Sid Solomon, amongst others, but they had no home ground so only played away matches. In 1920 they were able to play home matches at Ford Park and then in1922 they moved to the Beacon Park Recreation Ground. Two years later they were on the move again, this time to Venn or Peverell Park, where two pavilions were built, in 1925 and 1938. There they remained until 2009 when the Club moved to the former United Services Ground at Mount Wise, where a new pavilion is due to be completed in 2012. Over the years the Club has played host to teams from Lancashire, Somerset and Warwickshire as well as the International Cavaliers and even All England XIs. Also many local Club players have contributed to the successes of the Devon County Cricket team, amongst whom can be included Mr Duncan Boase, Mr Dave Burke, Mr Teddy Butcher, Mr Cliff Casley, Mr Keith Donohue, Mr Bob Healey, Mr Frank Midgeley, and Mr Derek Pring. The Plymouth Cricket Club has seen many highs and lows, not least among the latter being the uncertainty over a ground on which to play in the late 1990s, but thanks to many determined and unselfish members it has once again become Plymouth's premier cricket club. Source:
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