Welcome to Capel Cricket Club
Village cricket at the Recreation Ground, Mortimer Road — playing since the 1870s and in league cricket since 1995. New members are always welcome — come along to any training session to meet the teams and see the club.
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This winter
Getting ready for 2027
The 2026 season is over, but the club doesn't stop. Here's what's on before the first ball of 2027.
Winter nets
Indoor nets at Fastlane Cricket Centre, Tadworth, for adults and juniors. From the last week of February 2027 (to be confirmed).
Winter nets →Join for 2027
Players, juniors and social members — new faces always welcome.
Membership →Sponsor the club
Kit, juniors, match days and more, ready for the 2027 season.
Enquire →Book the pavilion
The winter months are often the easiest time to book parties, meetings and events.
Booking request →On the field
Latest results
Get the CSP app
The new Capel Sports Pavilion (CSP) app: your membership, club news and scores in one place. Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
Teams
Six senior sides and a full junior section
League cricket on Saturdays, Village Cricket League on Sundays, T20 in midweek and colts from under-7 to under-14. Season stats and results for every side are on the Fixtures & Results page.
From colts to the first team
Our senior sides are built on our juniors
Around 95% of the players in our Saturday 1st, 2nd and 3rd XIs grew up playing junior and colts cricket at Capel — and stayed to become the senior players who now make up most of our sides.
Junior cricket at CapelNew for 2026
New kit, new supplier
This season Capel signed with Gray-Nicolls as the club's official kit and training-wear supplier. Every senior and junior squad is now in the new Capel playing kit, with training wear available to order through the Gray-Nicolls club shop.
Our squads' kit this season is backed by our sponsors:
- 1st, 2nd & 3rd XI
- Sunday XI
- Ladies
- T20 (Surrey Slam)
- Juniors & Colts
A huge thank you to every sponsor for their continued support — it keeps the club running and our players looking sharp on the field.
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Gallery
Capel in action
Match days on the Recreation Ground, from the men’s and ladies’ sides — there are hundreds more in the gallery.
Teas
The best on the circuit — and consistent for over 30 years.
Visiting sides always say our teas are the best. Both teams, umpires and scorers are served, and there is usually plenty left over for spectators too. Helen Margetts coordinates the teas with a team of around nine other ladies who take their turns — and the standard never drops.
30+ years, no drop in standardSee what’s on the table at cricketteasrus, our teas on Instagram.
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On Instagram
Follow @capelcricketclub
Here for the teas? Follow @cricketteasrus too.
Capel's New Development
New Nets
After another successful season, in September 2022 we dismantled our old nets, which had started to become dangerous and something of an eyesore for the community.
In February 2023 Total Play Ltd installed a three-lane solution on an abandoned bowls green — an ideal spot, tucked away and already flat. Please read the rules before using the new nets.
Net rules
Junior cricket
We host the Capel 6-a-Side Tournament
Twelve teams from across the area came to the Recreation Ground on Sunday 14 June for our annual Under-9 festival of six-a-side cricket.
Read about the day
About Us
A hundred years on the Recreation Ground
Cricket has been played in Capel since the 1870s, first out at Misbrooks Green. The Mortimer family gave the Recreation Ground to the village in 1922, and the club moved to Mortimer Road in early 1926 — where it has stayed ever since.
Capel joined the Surrey Downs League in 1995 and has won its top division four times since. The junior section, rebuilt from 2001, now has more than 150 registered colts and over 20 qualified coaches, with players going on to Surrey and Sussex age-group cricket — and around 95% of our Saturday 1st, 2nd and 3rd XI players came up through it.
More about the club
Contact Us
Find the ground
The Recreation Ground is in the middle of the village, just off the A24 about ten minutes south of Dorking. Parking on site.
Follow the club
Match updates, photos and results through the season.
New members welcome
Come and say hello
New players are welcome to join us wherever and whenever — at training or a match, summer or winter. Come along to meet the teams and players and see what Capel is all about. Whatever your age or experience, you'll be made very welcome.
