Old Buckenham Hall Cricket Ground

[1] Robinson expanded the estate from 340 to 2000 acres[2] and within the space of four years built two separate cricket grounds, each equipped with a thatched timber pavilion.

[3] The first ground was half a mile from the Hall and adjacent to Old Buckenham Stud, which Robinson established to further his involvement in horse racing.

The second – still in use today – was created in a woodland clearing close to the rebuilt Hall, Robinson having replaced Duleep Singh’s Georgian house with a vast neo-Jacobean mansion.

Australia were led by Warwick Armstrong and included Jack Gregory – who had made his first-class debut with the AIF team at Old Buckenham two years previously – Warren Bardsley and Charlie Macartney.

[7] Following Robinson’s death in July 1922,[8] the Hall and estate were sold and came into the possession of Ernest Gates who continued to stage cricket at the ground until putting the property up for sale in 1932.

It is now named The Horry Panks Cricket Ground in honour of a long-serving player and groundsman whose family was instrumental in its 1960s revival.