 Gray 's Inn was the venue for an early first @-@ class cricket match on Thursday , 2 July 1730 between London and Kent . Kent won the game by an unknown margin . The original source reports " a cricket @-@ match between the Kentish men and the Londoners for £ 50 , and won by the former " , giving the precise location as " a field near the lower end of Gray 's Inn Lane , London " . 
