Britain's best village cricket grounds

The Daily Telegraph selected the best ten among readers' entries for cricket grounds that are quintessentially British. David Robson writes:

If the England cricket team were as spoiled for talent as England is spoiled for picturesque cricket grounds, it would never lose another match.

Test cricket is played in some of the most beautiful places on earth, from Barbados to Cape Town, but no Test Match ground can hold a candle to the real thing - the English village green, unchanged in centuries.

Bridgetown Cricket Club in Somerset, located in the Exmoor National Park, was adjudged the winner.

It was the eccentric detail that made this little ground, accessible by a wooden footbridge over a river, sound so heart-warmingly English. "There is a swallows' nest in the dressing-room, a wrens' nest above the front door... showers non-existent, though it is possible to take a dip in the river Exe to cool off after the match...a boiler fired by gas bottles for that most essential cricketing ingredient - tea." You can almost hear the kettle whistling as the players plod off the field.

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