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24-478: The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road is a cricket ground in Guildford , Surrey . The ground was given to the town in trust in 1911 by Sir Harry Waechter, Bart . Guildford Cricket Club play their home matches on the ground. Surrey County Cricket Club usually play at least one County Championship match there each season, as well as some second XI and Surrey Stars fixtures. Until comparatively recently, hockey

48-409: A ball, there is a degree of latitude afforded whereby both can move around the crease as long as they remain within the aforementioned confines. Batsmen 'use the crease' when they move toward leg or off , before or while playing a shot. Bowlers 'use the crease' by varying the position of their feet, relative to the stumps, at the moment of delivery. In so doing, they can alter the angle of delivery and

72-556: A batter is in or out of his ground is defined by Law 30 of the Laws of Cricket . So long as the batter has his body or his bat (that he is holding) touching the ground, he is in it, and is said to have "made good his ground". Batters can run between the two grounds to score runs . However, if a batter is out of his ground (which can happen when he enters a ground that another batter is already occupying), he may be dismissed (prevented from further scoring) by being run out or stumped if

96-525: A visit to Guildford to mark the 700th anniversary of the granting of a royal charter to the town by Henry III , the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the ground during a county fixture, and the two teams (Surrey and Hampshire) were presented to them. The ground is on the small side, so that some high scores have been made there. The highest individual innings played on the ground in first-class matches

120-512: Is Justin Langer 's 342 for Somerset in 2006. Somerset made 688-8 declared in their first innings in this match, but Surrey responded with 717 - the highest total made on the ground - and the match was drawn. The most notable bowling feat is Martin Bicknell 's against Leicestershire in 2000. He had match figures of 16-119, the second best match figures ever returned for Surrey. His figures in

144-410: Is derived from the earlier feature of cricket pitches, the popping hole. One popping crease is drawn at each end of the pitch in front of each set of stumps. The popping crease is 4 feet (1.2 m) in front of and parallel to the bowling crease, and thus 58 feet (18 m) from the other popping crease. Although it is considered to have unlimited length (in other words, running across the entire field)

168-415: The pitch , around the two sets of stumps . The bowling creases lie 22 yards (66 feet or 20.12 m) apart, and mark the ends of the pitch. For the fielding side, the crease defines whether there is a no-ball because the wicket-keeper has moved in front of the wicket before he is permitted to do so. In addition, historically part of the bowler's back foot in the delivery stride was required to fall behind

192-439: The wicket in his ground is put down by the ball. This article about cricket terminology is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Crease (cricket) In the sport of cricket , the crease is a certain area demarcated by white lines painted or chalked on the field of play, and pursuant to the rules of cricket they help determine legal play in different ways for the fielding and batting side. They define

216-673: The Pavilion End and the Railway End. The 2nd Royal Surrey Militia used the 'Woodbridge Road cricket ground' for its annual drill from 1853 until the 1860s, and particularly during the Crimean War when the regiment was embodied for full time service but was quarantined at Guildford due to an outbreak of smallpox . Surrey first used the ground in 1938, against Hampshire from 13 to 15 July, winning by an innings. They have played there in most seasons since. In 1957, as part of

240-639: The Ransomes Jacobsen Trophy for Achievements in Cricket Groundsmanship at the ECB's annual pre-season dinner for First Class Groundsmen for 2006. Surrey currently play at least one first-class match at Woodbridge Road each season as part of a festival. In 2018 a new pavilion was opened offering much improved facilities, as well as being an events and private hire venue. In 2019, Surrey CCC took over ground maintenance. In 2019,

264-516: The area within which the batsmen and bowlers operate. The term crease may refer to any of the lines themselves, particularly the popping crease, or to the region that they demark. Law 7 of the Laws of Cricket governs the size and position of the crease markings, and defines the actual line as the back edge of the width of the marked line on the soil, i.e., the edge nearest to the wicket at that end. Four creases (one popping crease, one bowling crease, and two return creases) are drawn at each end of

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288-419: The bowler has bowled a no-ball . To avoid a no-ball, some part of the bowler's front foot in the delivery stride (that is, the first impression of stride when he/she releases the ball ) must be behind the popping crease when it lands, although it does not have to be grounded. The foot may be on the line as long as some part of his/her foot is behind the line. This has given rise to the term "the line belongs to

312-405: The bowler has bowled a no-ball. To avoid a no-ball, the bowler's back foot in the delivery stride must land within and not touch the return crease. This is to stop the bowler from bowling at the batsmen from an unfair angle (i.e. diagonally). Though the relatively small size of the crease is such that they limit the degree to which a batsman or a bowler can alter where they stand to face or deliver

336-399: The bowling crease to avoid a delivery being a no-ball. This rule was replaced by a requirement that the bowler's front foot in the delivery stride must land with some part of it behind the popping crease (see below). The origin of creases is unsure but they were certainly in use by the beginning of the 18th century, being created by scratch marks, the popping crease being 46 inches in front of

360-496: The bowling is indeed legal. For a batsman the popping crease – which can be referred to as the batting crease in the context of batting – determines whether they have been stumped or run out. This is described in Laws 29, 38, and 39 of the Laws of Cricket . For a run-out, the wicket near the popping crease must be put down when the batsman is not within their ground behind the popping crease. A 2010 amendment to Law 29 clarified

384-520: The circumstance where the wicket is put down while a batsman has become fully airborne after having first made his ground; the batsman is regarded to not be out of his ground. Drawn parallel with the popping crease and four feet away from it. The bowling crease is the line through the centres of the three stumps at each end. It is 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m) long, with the stumps in the centre. Four return creases are drawn, one on each side of each set of stumps. The return creases lie perpendicular to

408-401: The cricket field, the ground may include a pavilion , viewing areas or stadium , a car park, shops, bars, floodlights , sight screens , gates, and conference facilities. A batter's ground is the area behind the popping crease at his end of the pitch . In general, a ground belongs only to the batter who is closest to it, and stays so until the other batter gets closer to it. Whether

432-519: The ground hosted two championship games versus Somerset and Yorkshire and four Surrey Stars matches in the Women's Cricket Super League season. 51°14′34″N 0°34′38″W  /  51.24278°N 0.57722°W  / 51.24278; -0.57722 Cricket ground A batter's ground is the area behind the popping crease at their end of the pitch . It is one of the two safe zones that batters run between to score runs . In addition to

456-437: The popping crease and the bowling crease, 4 feet 4 inches (1.32 m) either side of and parallel to the imaginary line joining the centres of the two middle stumps. Each return crease line starts at the popping crease but the other end is considered to be unlimited in length and need only be marked to a minimum of 8 feet (2.4 m) from the popping crease. The return creases are primarily used to determine whether

480-423: The popping crease need only be marked to at least 6 feet (1.8 metres) at right angles to, and on both sides of, the middle of the pitch. The popping creases are the edges of an area which is an "unsafe zone" for batsmen (they risk being out when they are in this area); the ball must travel through this area when initially bowled to the batsman. For the fielding team the popping crease is used as one test of whether

504-544: The second innings were 9-47. The highest individual innings in a List A one-day match on the ground is 203 by Alastair Brown in a 40 overs a side AXA Life League match against Hampshire in 1997. This remains the highest score in any 40 overs List A match played in England. The English women's cricket team have played two Test Matches on the ground, against New Zealand in 1996 and against Australia in 1998. The former Woodbridge Road groundsman, Bill Clutterbuck, won

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528-415: The umpire." In addition, a no-ball is called if the bowled ball bounces more than once before it reaches the popping crease of the striker , or if more than two non-wicketkeeping fielders are behind that popping crease on the on side at the time of the delivery. There is no limit to how far a bowler may bowl behind the crease other than that he must be visible to the umpire sufficient for him to verify that

552-410: The wicket at each end of the pitch. In the course of time the scratches became cuts which were an inch deep and an inch wide. Such cuts were in use until the second half of the 19th century. Sometime during the early part of his career, Alfred Shaw suggested that the creases be made by lines of whitewash and this practice was gradually adopted during the 1870s. The origin of the term "popping crease"

576-413: Was played on the ground in winter. The ground was also used for football until at least 1921. It was the home ground of the amateur team Guildford F.C. who existed until 1953 (not to be confused with the professional Guildford City team who played at Josephs Road) and was also used as the venue for some Surrey Senior Cup finals. The ground capacity is 4,500. The two ends of the ground are known as

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