Chorleywood Cricket Club
Chorleywood are a very active club fielding 4 teams in the Saracens Herts league in divisions 1,6,10 and 13. A further two teams in the Chess Valley Cricket league on a Sunday and no less than 10 colts team ranging from under 9s upwards. Many thousands of people will have seen the ground as the A404 borders one end of the ground. Chorleywood have been playing on the common for over 200 years and for many of those years I suspect the large tree at backward sqaure will have seen many runs scored and wickets taken. If the ball hits the tree anywhere it is four runs
The club have several insurance claims every year from balls hitting the passing traffic as the straight boundary is only about 50 yards from the non strikers end. Plans are in place though to move the square further away from the road. These include a new club house but may well mean the end for the tree.
Recently discussions had taken place with a neighbouring club to merge the teams but these came to nothing.
