[1][2] The first mention of a Norfolk representative team is in 1764, playing against Suffolk at Bury St Edmunds racecourse (today the location of Rougham Airfield) on 23 August.
Norfolk won this match, which was reported in the Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser on Tuesday, 28 August.
After that, the centre of county cricket was Norwich and a prominent club was founded there on 11 January 1827.
For a few seasons, prior to Fuller Pilch's departure for Kent about 1835, Norfolk could put a fairly strong eleven into the field.
Cambridgeshire) in the 1840s but Norfolk generally fared very poorly and by 1852 the team had lost important status.