For lovers of England and Test Match cricket it has been a grand summer with England beating the old rival – the Australians – by three matches to nil.
Perhaps the heyday for Market Lavington cricket was 100 years earlier.
Charles Awdry, who had bought the Manor and what was left of the estate had laid out a very fine cricket ground and built a pavilion on quite a lavish scale for a village ground. Wiltshire never had a first class team but it seems some quite prestigious matches were played at the ground. It is rumoured that a touring Australian side. The MCC have no record of a match but have suggested that the 9th June 1909 was a likely date if such a match ever happened.
Today we look at cricketers and supporters a few years after that event – in 1914.
Players and supporters at Market Lavington Cricket Week in 1914
Lavington Cricket Week was probably having its last fling as a social event. The outbreak of war ended such frivolity and much of it never returned.
This picture was copied from an album still owned by members of the Awdry family. Sadly we do not know who any of the men are but we hope they enjoyed their time as cricketers at Market Lavington.
Market Lavington Museum 
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