We share our club house and facilities with
Botany Bay Cricket Club
Botany Bay Cricket Club, located in the Green Belt to the north of London, was
founded in 1899 as a village cricket team supported by the local gentry and landowner.
The Club fielded a single team with fathers and sons of the local families playing
side by side for more than half a century playing against local clubs. There
were few significant achievements and low scoring matches were the norm. It took
until 1937 for the first century to be scored at the ground, even then by a visitor.
Post Second World War, led by the ever enthusiastic Alec Callendar, the Club
rebuilt itself building a pavilion with bar, growing to 2 then 3 sides, acquiring
a second ground adjacent to the clubhouse, became a founder member of the Middlesex
Cricketers League and growing in stature in the Middlesex and Hertforshire cricket
scene. Today the Club fields 3 sides in the Saracens Hertfordshire Cricket League
and enters the annual National Village Cup competition.