Cricket in Fulham

A 1912 Fulham Cricket League medal sparked a search through old scorecards, sporting journals and local archives. It uncovered a cricket story that stretches back nearly 300 years.

1730s · Putney Heath and Parsons Green

Historical compilations record a Fulham side playing Putney at Putney Heath in 1730 and matches against Chelsea at Parsons Green in 1731 and 1733. These records trace the history of cricket in the area. The modern Fulham Cricket Club is a separate organisation.

1871 · County cricket at Lillie Bridge

Middlesex played Surrey at Lillie Bridge in West Brompton in May 1871. Later that month, a register of W. G. Grace’s first-class centuries records him making 118 there for the Gentlemen of the South.

1904 · Cricket at South Park

Friends of South Park records cricket among the activities offered when the park opened in 1904. Today, South Park is Fulham Cricket Club’s home ground.

1912 · A medal and a century

A surviving medal names the Fulham Cricket League’s Division II winners in 1912. The winning team is still unidentified. Separately, a contemporary cricket journal records J. S. Fryer scoring 100 for Fulham against Roehampton that summer. The match report does not establish a link to the medal or the league.

1920s · A cricket school in Farm Lane

South African Test all-rounder Aubrey Faulkner moved his specialist cricket school to Farm Lane, Walham Green. His pupils included Ian Peebles and Doug Wright.

1953 · A week of cricket at Hurlingham

Nomads Cricket Club’s archive records seven matches at the Hurlingham Club during its Golden Jubilee cricket week.

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Sources include CricketArchive, Friends of South Park, the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, Nomads Cricket Club and Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game. The timeline draws on Fulham Cricket Club’s September 2026 heritage research.