Mote Park (cricket ground)

Mote Park
The Mote in December 2005
Ground information
LocationMaidstone, Kent
Coordinates51°16′05″N 0°32′10″E / 51.268°N 0.536°E / 51.268; 0.536
Home clubThe Mote Cricket Club
Establishment1854 (first recorded match)
OwnerThe Mote Cricket Club
End names
Mote Avenue End
West Park Road End
Team information
Mote Park Cricket Club (1855–1977)
Kent County Cricket Club (1859–2005)
The Mote Cricket Club (1867–present)
Maidstone FC (1950s–present)
As of 1 March 2018
Source: CricketArchive

Mote Park, also known as The Mote, is a cricket ground in Maidstone in the English county of Kent. It is inside the grounds of the Mote Park and is owned by The Mote Cricket Club.[1] The ground is also used by the Mote Squash Club and Maidstone rugby club.[2] It was used by Kent County Cricket Club as one of their out-grounds for county cricket matches. The club played over 200 first-class cricket matches on the ground between 1859 and 2005.[3]

The ground is located around 0.8 miles (1.3 km) south-east of the centre of Maidstone on the western fringe of Mote Park. The A229 road runs 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the east of the ground, Maidstone Leisure Centre is immediately to the south of the ground and Maidstone Grammar School just south-west of the site.[4] Originally the ground was separated from the urban area of Maidstone by farmland, but 20th century housing has been built up to the western edges of the site.[5]

Establishment

The ground was established in the mid-19th century inside Mote Park, at the time a 558 acres (226 ha) country estate to the west of Maidstone.[6] It had been emparked in the 14th century and by the end of the 17th century was owned by the Marsham family. Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney built a new mansion in the grounds of the park in the 1790s and the grounds were redeveloped during the mid-19th century by both the 2nd and 3rd Earls.[7][8]

Cricket was first played on a ground in the park in 1854 and the ground was established fully by 1857.[8] The park was sold to Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted in 1895 and the ground developed extensively under his ownership to allow it to be used regularly for county cricket.[6][8] The ground was levelled and the pitch turned through 90 degrees in 1907. The cricket pavilion and The Tabernacle, built as Viscount Bearsted's private pavilion, were built between 1909 and 1910.[6][9][10]

After the death of the 1st Viscount Bearsted in 1927, his son sold Mote Park itself to Maidstone Corporation,[8] with the cricket ground being excluded from the sale and being gifted to The Mote.[6][11][12] The Tabernacle was initially gifted to the Band of Brothers, a private cricket club closely associated with the county club, and eventually transferred to The Mote in the 1940s.[6]

Cricket history

Kent v Surrey at Mote Park in 1973

The first known match at Mote Park was between Maidstone and an All-England XI in 1854, Maidstone playing with 18 batsmen. A Mote Park team first used the ground the following year.[13]

The first match given retrospective first-class cricket status took place in 1859, Kent playing MCC. The county used the match twice in the 1860s before beginning to play more regularly on the ground in the 1870s. The ground saw several matches played by the amateur Gentlemen of Kent side during the 1860s and the Australian Aborigine team played there twice during their tour England in 1868. Other touring sides to have played at the ground include the Australians in 1890, 1912 and 1951 South Africans, 1954 Canadians and the New Zealanders in 1965 and 1969.[13]

Other than a break when the ground was re-laid in 1908 and 1909, Kent used the ground regularly for an annual cricket week until the end of the 2005 season.[3][14] Over 200 first-class matches took place on the ground,[3] with Kent also using it for limited overs cricket from 1969.[13] It was removed from the list of county grounds used by Kent when an over-watered "green" wicket, prepared for a County Championship match against Gloucestershire, led to a low scoring game which ended after less than two days. The club was deducted eight points due to the state of the pitch.[15]

The ground was also used by Kent's Second XI, including in the Second XI Championship, and by the Kent Cricket Board side in both List A cricket and the Minor Counties Trophy. The Kent Women cricket team first used the ground in 1936 and the ground was used by England Women XIs to play touring sides in 1937 and 1979, with one of the two matches taking place against the West Indies Women in 1979 being an official One Day International.[13]

Redevelopment of the facilities at the ground had been approved during 2005 as part of a larger scheme to increase the profile of cricket in the county town.[16] Since 2005 The Mote Cricket Club have relaid a number of wickets at a cost of £14,000 with the help of grants and technical assistance from the County Cricket Club and Maidstone Borough Council. Kent have expressed a wish to return to the ground at some point, although as of April 2016 the quality of the wicket and the pavilion were still seen as issues that needed to be addressed.[17][18][19][20]

Records on the ground

A total of 218 first-class matches were held on the ground between 1859 and 2005, all of them featuring Kent as the home side.[3] Kent also played List A matches regularly on the ground, with 53 fixtures being played between 1969 and 2005. The Kent Cricket Board played another five List A matches on the ground in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy between 1999 and 2002. Two of Kent's T20 matches were hosted at the ground in 2004.[13][21]

First-class cricket

Percy Chapman made the highest individual score at Mote Park in 1927

The partnership between de Silva and Cowdrey set a new record as the highest partnership for any wicket for Kent.[6] It remained Kent's highest partnership in first-class cricket until 2017 when it was surpassed by Sean Dickson and Joe Denly who made 382 runs for the 2nd wicket against Northants at County Cricket Ground, Beckenham.[22][23]

In 1910, Colin Blythe and Frank Woolley bowled unchanged throughout both innings of a fixture with Yorkshire repeating a performance from 1889, also against Yorkshire, by bowlers Walter Wright and Fred Martin.[6]

List A cricket

In 1995 Mark Ealham set a record for the fastest century in 40-over cricket. In 44 balls, Ealham scored a hundred, with nine sixes and nine fours.[6] This remained the Kent record for the fastest century in List A cricket until Darren Stevens equalled the record in 2013.[24]

Twenty20 Cricket

Andrew Symonds scored the only T20 century on the ground.

Two Twenty20 matches were played on the ground in 2004. Kent made the highest T20 score on the ground, scoring 157/3 against Middlesex who made 155/7 in reply. The match was reduced by rain to 18 overs per side. Middlesex batted first and Kent reached their target in only 13.1 overs.[25][26] Andrew Symonds scored 112 runs in the match, the only T20 century scored on the ground. Symonds scored his century in 34 balls, at the time a record for the fastest century in T20 cricket. As of March 2018 it remains the third quickest century scored in top-level T20 matches worldwide and the fastest scored in the UK.[27][28]

The best bowling figures in a T20 match on the ground were 4 wickets for 20 runs from 3.2 overs by Scott Brant for Essex in the grounds other T20 match.[13]

Other uses

As of 2018, the ground is the current home of Maidstone FC who have played rugby union on it since the 1950s.[29][30][31] The redevelopment of parts of the ground is likely to mean that the rugby club moves to a new ground in the future.[32]

The ground is also the home to The Mote Squash Club.[33]

References

  1. ^ The Mote CC - About Us Archived 2012-07-24 at archive.today, The Mote Cricket Club. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
  2. ^ Maidstone Rugby Club Archived 2010-01-27 at the Wayback Machine, Maidstone Rugby Club. Retrieved 2011-04-09
  3. ^ a b c d First-class matches played on Mote Park, Maidstone, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  4. ^ Explorer Map 148 – Maidstone & the Medway Towns, Ordnance Survey, 2015-09-16.
  5. ^ Kent LXLII.7, Ordnance Survey map, revised 1907, published 1908.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h A brief history of the Mote, CricInfo. Retrieved 2011-03-23.
  7. ^ Historic England (13 November 2000). "Mote Park (1001481)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  8. ^ a b c d History of Mote Park, Mote Park Fellowship. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  9. ^ Mote Park Cricket Ground, (also known as The Mote), England, Parks and Gardens Trust. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  10. ^ Maidstone Cricket Ground, The Times, 1907-12-31, p.5.
  11. ^ Mote Park, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  12. ^ Mote Cricket Ground, Maidstone, The Times, 1929-04-06, p.7.
  13. ^ a b c d e f Mote Park, Maidstone, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  14. ^ Cricket: The Kent Festivals, The Times, issue 40239, 1913-06-16, p.13.
  15. ^ Kent end 140-year Maidstone deal, BBC Sport, 2005-09-30. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  16. ^ Major changes for cricket ground, BBC Sport, 2005-06-02. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  17. ^ Redevelopment may lead to Kent's Mote return, Kent Online, 2008-06-26. Retrieved 2011-03-23
  18. ^ Kent County Cricket Club say they want to play at grounds around the county, Kent Online, 2011-12-02. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  19. ^ Kent Cricket chief executive Jamie Clifford says the county would love to return to Maidstone but that there are too many hurdles at the moment, Kent Online, 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  20. ^ Tucked C (2013) Exciting plans for redevelopment of The Mote, Kent Online, 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  21. ^ Grounds Records in Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017, pp.210–211. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
  22. ^ Milton H (2016) 'Team Records' in Reid J (ed) 2016 Kent County Cricket Club Annual, pp.199–202, Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club
  23. ^ Dickson's 318 tops day of Kent records, CricInfo, 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  24. ^ Stevens' 44-ball ton chases 337, CricInfo, 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  25. ^ Symonds batters Middlesex, BBC Sport, 2004-07-02. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  26. ^ Symonds powers Kent to Twenty20 win, Kent Online, 2004-07-02. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  27. ^ Dutton J (2013) Chris Gayle and the story of the fastest centuries in cricket, The Independent, 2013-04-24. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  28. ^ Fastest Hundreds, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  29. ^ Club history, Maidstone FC. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  30. ^ Tucked C (2015) Maidstone Rugby Club are ready to end their long-running dispute with The Mote Cricket Club by finding a new ground, Kent Online, 2015-08-07. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  31. ^ Welcome to Maidstone F.C, the rugby club at the heart of Kent’s County Town, Maidstone FC. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  32. ^ Tucked C (2015) Maidstone Rugby Club keen to move from current ground at The Mote to new development in Tovil, Kent Online, 2015-11-15.
  33. ^ Welcome to The Mote Squash Club, The Mote Squash Club. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

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