The Castle Cary and Ansford Cricket Club was founded in 1837, but then had folded by 1840 when the Hadspen club was started. In 1859 the Castle Cary Cricket Club was formed although its headquarters were at Hadspen until 1870 when it acquired a field at South Cary where a pavilion was built in 1881.
In 1900 the Club supplied five players to the Devon & Somerset Wanderers team, which defeated France and won the first and only Cricket Olympic medal, an event which was celebrated in 2012 in parallel to the London Olympics.
A description of the match and tickets can be found here
The Jubilee Playing Field, established before 1900, was redesigned in 1947 as the Donald Pither Memorial Field with a new pavilion, football and cricket pitches, one grass and two hard tennis courts, bowling green, car park, seats, and flower garden.
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