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The Cricketers, Richmond
Richmond
TW9 1LX
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Metropolitan Pub Co (Greene King)Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Ian Mapp left this review about The Cricketers
Thought this pub was fantastic - mainly due to the service from an old school landlord. Shirt and Tie and made me feel really welcome, as a solo diner.
Beautiful frontage and views looking over Richmond Green.
A Greene King pub - with their IPA on and Landlord as guest.
Food was superb and for Richmond/London, reasonably priced.
Very enjoyable visit.
On 19th February 2024
- rating: 9
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Cricketers
A very Richmond sort of pub, in a nice location overlooking the corner of the green. The opening wall at the front is a key feature, at least in the summer, and a function room is signed upstairs. The interior was slightly dowdy, as was the house beer which is presumably the usual Greene King offering. Alternative cask ales were IPA and TT Landlord. Adequate, but didn't appeal greatly.
On 23rd August 2023
- rating: 6
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Cricketers
I’ve utilised this one quite a few times over the years for an alfresco pint when in Richmond due to its key selling point of the fantastic location on Richmond Green. It’s a tossup between this one and the Fullers run Princes Head in that respect but being back in Richmond this week we decided to utilise this one again, but this time for a spot of lunch so sat inside, although in one of the front window seats which still afford the excellent views of the Green but with the certainty of a proper non-plastic glass.
It’s run by the Metropolitan Pub Company, which is owned by Green King so no surprise that GK IPA is permanent alongside another badged GK product which, for this visit, was something called Triple C. Normally I don’t have to go anywhere near these as the other two pumps usually have something more interesting on which this time was Wimbledon Brewery Common Pale Ale and Exeter Brewery Falls Over, both of which were very good in their differing ways.
Very good friendly service levels from the bar staff who showed no corporate allegiance to GK and when they knew I was there for the ale were more interested in pushing the virtues of the Exeter Brewery seasonal ale and convinced me that it had a lot going on with its 5% ABV and fortunately they were not wrong.
On 1st November 2022
- rating: 7
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Moby Duck left this review about The Cricketers
This pub was heaving with post Christmas revellers on my Wednesday afternoon visit, a simple one room layout , although extra seating was available upstairs,there were four handpumps on the bar with Greene King IPA and a house beer Cricketers Ale,no doubt of GK origin, these were backed up with a brace of beers more interesting, Truman's Original Porter and Bedlam Pilgrim, the latter proving to be a decent drop.As mentioned it was a little too busy to be comfortable but a decent enough pub none the less.
On 29th December 2016
- rating: 6
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hondo . left this review about The Cricketers
Located across from Richmond Green interior as described below. 4 real ales and food served.
On 2nd May 2015
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Malden man left this review about The Cricketers
The pub has an enviable location on Richmond Green and presumably comes into its own during the summer months when one can sit outside quaffing a pint while watching the cricket. There is a single room downstairs with the bar along one side, unusually with the counter front painted bright green but also with hops entwined along the gantry. A wood burning stove is opposite the bar, décor is mostly cricket themed with photographs, bats and stumps and scoreboard numbers displayed on the walls. The pub has its own team and an honours board sits on a carved sideboard that also carries the cutlery trays.
Seating is mostly standard issue and includes an elaborate two seater bench near the front.
Four handpumps, GK IPA seems to be a regular, Cricketers Ale will also be a GK rebadge, Sambrook's Scrum Down (£3.99), Truman's Blindside was being intermittently pulled through for later.
The TV was off but a board listed the 6 Nations games which indicated live sports are shown; clearly dog friendly with a water bowl on the floor and a jar of doggy treats.
A pleasant visit yesterday afternoon but I have seen the place packed to the rafters on a sunny summer day with plastic glasses being the norm so timimg is everything I suspect.
Another room upstairs "Club Room" remains unvisited by me but I believe is an overflow area and can be hired too.
On 7th March 2015
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Cricketers
Built in 1834 on the site of a previous pub called 'The Cricket Players' which sadly burnt down, this is a simple single room pub overlooking Richmond Green. The pub has a very uncomplicated layout, with a front section packed full of standard, low stool and pew seating under grey walls with a few old pictures dotted around. Interestingly, there is an honours board near the door, detailing the exploits of the pub's own cricket team, for whom the Green acts as a very picturesque pitch. The servery appears midway down the left hand side of the room and has a nice spirit display on the bar back, a decorative feature which spells the pub's name out using coloured wine bottles and an unusual metal wine glass storage system in the canopy. A dumb waiter in the middle of the bar back has been surrounded by a collection of pump clips, which also liven up a well presented servery. The rear section of the pub has four or five tables served by benches and standard chairs, with a fireplace to the right and lots of cricket themed memorabilia, including several signed bats, although I wasn't able to get close enough to figure out exactly who had signed them. There is a collection of books that can be browsed and presumably swapped, with a range of board games stacked on top. In warmer weather I imagine it's very pleasant to sit out at the front of the pub overlooking the Green, and I noticed a stack of plastic glasses at the end of the bar which were being dispensed to those who expressed a preference for outdoor drinking.
The pub used to be a Young's house, but is currently tied to Greene King, with their IPA available on handpull alongside Truman's Lazarus, Twickenham Smiler's Ale and something called Cricketers Ale, which I suspect is a Greene King brew rebadged. I had a very passable pint of the Lazarus, served to me by a reasonably cheery barmaid.
This is quite a straightforward, functional pub that elevates itself by the lovely position it finds itself in. There's nothing particularly outstanding here to make you go out of your way to find it, but you can't fault it for the quintessentially English experience of supping good ale to the sound of leather on willow.
On 5th June 2014
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Cricketers
Fairly average Greene King pub in a fine location on Richmond Green, opposite (as you would expect) the cricket square. The bar isn't that large so it feels crowded, even when not actually that busy, but there is also more seating upstairs plus some benches out front. Decor-wise, it has been refurbished in the rather anonymous semi-modern style favoured by the brewery's managed house team, but the glazed front screens can be opened in fine weather. Three beers on hand pumps - the inevitable IPA (£2.95) plus Abbot and the seasonal Bonkers Conkers.
On 7th October 2010
- rating: 6
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Cricketers
The Cricketers is in a nice location facing Richmond green and when i first went in here it was a Charrington house.
On this visit it was a Greene King house,it has been altered inside and now there is not a lot of character left in this pub.
There were a couple of GK beers on the bar i had a drink of GK IPA and this was drinkable but nothing special the other beer was Abbot.
Pub visited 1/11/2001
On 1st November 2001
- rating: 6
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