| Ground Name: | East Sussex Cricket Ground |
| Country: | England |
| Location: | St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex |
| Establishment: | 1857 (first recorded match) |
| Year1: | 1857 |
| Club1: | Sussex |
| Date: | 27 August |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/775.html Ground profile |
East Sussex Cricket Ground was a cricket ground in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. The ground was located at the site of a racecourse which had moved after 1826 from the Bulverhythe Salts. It was during its time regarded as one of the finest racecourses in the United Kingdom.[1]
The first recorded match on the ground was in 1857, when Sussex played the Marylebone Cricket Club in the grounds only first-class match.[2] The final recorded match held on the ground came in 1894 when the South Saxons played the Gentlemen of the Netherlands,[3] a Netherlands side which contained the famous Carst Posthuma.