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| Sport |
| Cricket |
| Grounds |
| English Test grounds |
| Other county grounds |
| Other Test grounds |
| Other |
| Hampshire village (near Portsmouth) known as "the cradle of cricket" – its club, founded in 1750, was the leading English club prior to the foundation of MCC in 1787. Richard Nyren, landlord of the Bat & Ball Inn which stands beside the original ground on Broadhalfpenny Down, was also captain of the club; they played England 51 times, winning 29 times |
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Hambledon |
| Lancashire (Manchester) – venue of the second Test match in England, and the first Ashes Test in England (1884) |
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Old Trafford |
| Middlesex (St. John's Wood, London) – opened 1814, first Test match 1884 (11 days after Old Trafford); home of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC); known as "the Home of Cricket" |
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Lord's |
| Nottinghamshire (Nottingham) |
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Trent Bridge |
| Surrey's county ground – owned by the Duchy of Cornwall (Kennington, London); first leased to Surrey CCC in 1845; venue of (1) the first match played by an overseas touring cricket team in England (a team of Australian aborigines, 1868); (2) the FA Cup Finals of 1872 and 1874–92; (3) the first football international (England v. Scotland, 1872); (4) rugby internationals against Wales and Scotland (1876), and the first Varsity match (1877); (5) the first cricket Test match in England (v. Australia, 1880 – Australia winning by 7 runs in two days, leading to the famous mock obituary in the Sporting Times, which gave rise to the legend of the Ashes) |
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The Oval |
| Warwickshire (Birmingham) |
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Edgbaston |
| Yorkshire (Leeds) |
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Headingley |
| Radcliffe Road End |
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Trent Bridge |
| Vauxhall End |
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The Oval |
| Nursery End |
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Lord's |
| Durham (Chester–le–Street) – first used for a Test match against Zimbabwe in 2003 |
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The Riverside Ground |
| Glamorgan (Cardiff) |
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Sophia Gardens |
| Hampshire (West End, near Southampton) |
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The Rose Bowl |
| Kent (Canterbury) |
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St. Lawrence Ground |
| Leicestershire (Leicester) |
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Grace Road |
| Worcestershire (Worcester) |
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New Road |
| Essex's county ground is in |
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Chelmsford |
| Gloucestershire's county ground is in |
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Bristol |
| Somerset's county ground is in |
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Taunton |
| Sussex's county ground is in |
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Hove |
Note: the lists below, for the various Test playing countries, are not supposed to be complete. As I keep saying, this website is about the things that come up (or that I think are likely to come up) in pub quizzes.
| Woolongabba ('The Gabba') |
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Brisbane |
| Western Australia Cricket Association (WACA) Ground |
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Perth |
| Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium |
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Chittagong |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium (named after India's second prime minister, who died in office in 1964 aged 63) – 3 Tests, 1955–88; Rajiv Ghandi International Stadium (opened 2010) |
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Hyderabad |
| Eden Gardens (not to be confused with Eden Park) |
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Kolkata |
| Eden Park (not to be confused with Eden Gardens) |
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Auckland |
| The Basin (New Zealand's oldest Test ground) |
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Wellington |
| The University of Otago Oval: became the most southerly ground to host Test cricket when it hosted its first Test match (against Bangladesh) in 2008 |
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Dunedin |
| Gaddafi Stadium (Pakistan's largest cricket ground – renamed in 1974 after the controversial Libyan leader, following a speech he gave at a meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in the city in support of Pakistan's right to pursue nuclear weapons) |
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Lahore |
| Newlands |
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Cape Town |
| Lord's No. 1 Ground (4 Tests, 1910–21 – demolished in 1922); Kingsmead (first Test 1923; traditionally the venue for Boxing Day Tests in South Africa) |
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Durban |
| St. George's Park (South Africa's oldest Test ground) |
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Port Elizabeth |
| The Wanderers |
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Johannesburg |
| Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, a.k.a. Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium |
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Kandy |
| Kensington Oval (West Indies' first Test ground – 1930) |
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Bridgetown, Barbados |
| The Bourda (30 Tests, 1930–2005); Providence Stadium (built for the 2007 World Cup – first Test 2008) |
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Georgetown, Guyana |
| Sabina Park (the third of the West Indies' traditional Test venues – also 1930); Andy Sandham of MCC scored 325 – the first ever triple century – in the first game; Garfield Sobers's 365 not out v. Pakistan in 1958 stood as a Test record for over 36 years |
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Kingston, Jamaica |
| Sir Vivian Richards Stadium (built for the 2007 World Cup – first Test 2008; the ends are named after Richards's compatriots Curtly Ambrose and Andy Roberts) |
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North Sound, Antigua |
| Queen's Park Oval (West Indies' second Test ground, also 1930) |
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Port of Spain, Trinidad |
| Windsor Park (completed too late for the 2007 World Cup – first Test 2011) |
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Roseau, Dominica |
| Antigua Recreation Ground (where Brian Lara scored his Test record 375) – 22 Tests, 1981–2009 |
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St. John's |
| Home of Cambridge University CC |
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Fenner's |
| Home of Oxford University CC |
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The Parks |
| Opened as a cricket ground 1855 (Sheffield United CC was an umbrella organisation for six clubs that played there); hosted its first football match 1862; Yorkshire CCC played county games there from 1863 to 1973; home of The Wednesday FC 1880–7 (Sheffield United FC was founded in 1889); hosted a Test match in 1902; now used only for football |
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Bramall Lane (Sheffield) |
| County ground where a lime tree just inside the boundary, said to be over 200 years old, blew down in 2005 |
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Canterbury |
| The only other first–class cricket ground with a tree inside the boundary (South Africa) |
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Pietermaritzburg Oval |
| Match between Derbyshire & Lancashire abandoned because of snow, June 1975 |
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Buxton |
| Grace Gates, Mound Stand, Long Room; Pavilion End, Nursery End |
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Lord's |
| Futuristic Media Centre, designed by Czech architect Jan Kaplický, won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 1999 | ||
| See also below |
Four players who have stands named after them at Lord's :
| Middlesex 1921–50, 25 Tests for England 1930–48 (11 as captain); born in Australia, his family moved to England when he was 6 to give the children an English education (he went to Eton and Cambridge); there were unsubstantiated rumours that his real father wasPlum Warner; a key member of England's fast bowling attack in the controversial 1932–3 Bodyline tour of Australia, when he criticised both Donald Bradman and England captain Douglas Jardine (although he later became a friend of both); later held key positions in the MCC, and came to be seen as an establishment figure as a result of his roles in the D'Oliveira controversy (1968) and the proposed South African tour of 1970; worked as a stockbroker in the London exchange, 1933–72; knighted 1986; nicknamed Gubby (from his initials) |
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George Oswald Browning Allen |
| Played for Middlesex 1936–58, and for MCC until 1964, scoring a record 38,942 first class runs; 78 Tests for England, 1936–50; also played 60 official (i.e. non–wartime) games for Arsenal, but (contrary to what you might hear) never played football for England; his elder brother Leslie also played for Arsenal and Middlesex, but represented England at football and not cricket; his grandson Nick captained Harrow in 2001, played first–class cricket for Middlesex 2001–10 and Somerset 2010–14, and also (although born in South Africa, where his London–born father had played first–class cricket) played Test cricket for England |
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Denis Compton |
| Contemporary of Compton (Middlesex 1937–58, 39 Tests 1938–55): born in Norfolk, a No. 3 batsman and fast bowler; his cousin John played for Surrey 1958–78 and 77 Tests, 1963–76, and was considered one of the best batsmen of his generation |
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Bill Edrich |
| Middlesex 1894–1920, 15 Tests for England 1899–1912 (10 as captain); born in Trinidad (to a Spanish mother and an English father), educated at Rugby and Oxford; went on to be chairman of the England Test selectors in the 1930s, manager of the infamous 1932–3 Bodyline tour of Australia, and President of the MCC; knighted in 1937; known as "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket; nicknamed Plum |
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Sir Pelham Francis Warner |
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