You Can’t Hurry Us: A History of Cricket in Suffolk

By Simon Sweetman

Suffolk sports stories have tended to be about Ipswich Town or the speedway team, but the story of cricket in the county is a longer one.

In the early years, Norfolk and Suffolk helped with the game’s development, but later both were too far from cricket’s centres of power. Multiple attempts at setting up a county club petered out before the present one was formed in 1932. Since then, Suffolk have won the Minor County Championship three times outright and shared it once.

This book covers the background to county cricket in Suffolk in the eighteenth century, through progress from two to three-day games, to the adoption of one-day and T20 cricket. It also covers the club scene, the start of league cricket and the history of women’s cricket in the county.