According to Norman Gannaways comprehensive 175 Years of Lymington Cricket Club, published in 1982, cricket was first played in Lymington in 1807 with three matches against Southampton. Until 1836 the club played its matches on Pennington Common before moving to the Sports Ground where it has remained ever since. In the mid 1800s Lymington ranked among the countys best clubs, although the club occasionally fell on hard times and indeed disbanded temporarily during the 1850s. The clubs lowest ever recorded total occurred in 1897 when Ringwood dismissed Lymington for just eight runs. However, in 1926, a record 509 runs were scored against Zingari, and eight years later the highest individual score by a Lymington player was recorded when Dick Jenvey accumulated 202 not out against Aldenham. The postwar years represented a testing time for Lymington. A feature of cricket in the town was the annual Alderman Stone Cup competition which would attract large crowds to the Sports Ground for matches between the major clubs in the New Forest. During one such match in 1934 Perce Goff scored a record 158 in less than an hour. The last 25 years have been marked by steady progress in the clubs fortunes. Lymington won the Southern League in both 1983 and 1985 and although there have been no titles since, the club has generally been one of the major forces in the League.

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