History

Englefield is set in the grounds of Englefield house, the home of Sir William Benyon, father of Richard Benyon MP.With Englefield house on the hill and the lake other side this is a truly breathtaking setting for cricket. This is English cricket at it’s best.The club was named in the top 5 in The Wisden Cricketer Magazine ‘Loveliest Ground Competition in 2006.Englefield is a truly unique club and a fantastic place to play the game you love.

There has been a cricket club at Englefield since at least 1894. For many years the Englefield Estate employed and housed an army of agricultural workers and many found their way on to the cricket field in the summer. The 1970's saw a decline in the club as the trend towards league cricket saw the club's friendly fixtures decline in number and so in 1982 the club joined the Berkshire League. The late 1980's and early 1990's found a large crop of extremely talented young cricketers emerge in the locality and choose to play their Sunday cricket for Englefield and this period saw a great improvement in the standard of the fixture list. The League eleven progressed more slowly for a period but recent years have seen a rapid improvement running in tandem with the improvement of the square which is now accepted as one of the finest in the area. In recent years the 1st XI have won both the Berkshire Premier League and the Chiltern League that we moved to in 2004 and the Sunday teams has won their leagues.