Hitting center: Chertsey helped introduce the center stump
PICTURE: Longridge CC
THIS SUMMER, Chertsey Cricket Membership will have a good time a exceptional milestone in cricket historical past: the 250th anniversary of the introduction of the center stump. This innovation, now a elementary a part of the sport worldwide, has its roots in an incident involving a Chertsey participant through the 18th century.
The story begins in Might 1775 throughout a match in opposition to Hambledon. The then legendary Chertsey bowler Edward ‘Lumpy’ Stevens repeatedly beat nemesis batter John Small with deliveries that handed cleanly betwee…
