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Bulawayo Athletic Club
Ground information
Location	Bulawayo, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Coordinates	20°09′53.41″S 28°35′36.54″E / 20.1648361°S 28.5934833°E
Establishment	1894
Capacity	12,000
Owner	Bulawayo Athletic Club
Tenants	Zimbabwe Cricket
	End names
	n/a; n/a
International information
Only Test	1–5 November 1992:; Zimbabwe v New Zealand
First ODI	31 October 1992:; Zimbabwe v New Zealand
Last ODI	27 June 2023:; Ireland v United Arab Emirates
First T20I	11 July 2022:; Jersey v United States
Last T20I	17 July 2022:; Papua New Guinea v United States
Team information
Rhodesia	(1951)
Matabeleland	(1994-2009)
	As of 27 June 2023; Source: ESPNcricinfo

Bulawayo Athletic Club^[1] is a sports club in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The Bulawayo Athletic Club Ground is a 12,000-capacity stadium.

History

The club was founded in 1894 and has been a significant venue for many international sporting events. Cricket is the main sport played at the club, but tennis, bowls, squash and billiards are also played.^[2]

On 12 August 2007, a fire broke out at the club, destroying the members' bar area and billiards rooms and causing damages of up to US$400,000. The Walkden Hall, the squash courts and the changing rooms were saved from the blaze. The fire was believed to have been started by an electrical fault.^[2]

At the Hockey Africa Cup of Champions held in Bulawayo in 2014, the Bulawayo Athletic Club ladies team reached the competition's final.^[3] Two Bulawayo Athletic Club players were in the gold medal winning Zimbabwe ladies hockey team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Patricia McKillop and Helen Volk.^[4]^[5]

As a cricket venue

In the summer of 1992, the Zimbabwe national cricket team was granted Test status. Shortly afterwards, Bulawayo Athletic Club hosted one Test match (becoming the country's second Test venue, after Harare Sports Club) and one One Day International, with New Zealand the visitors in both.^[6]

New Zealand won the ODI, on 31 October, by 22 runs. The Test began the following day, but was badly hit by rain and a lack of adequate covering, with ten hours of play lost.^[6] In addition, the wicket was poor, as were the attendances (1,000 on the first day and a few hundred each day thereafter). Thus, when international cricket returned to Bulawayo, it was played at the nearby Queens Sports Club.^[6]

Bulawayo Athletic Club continued to host domestic matches, and along with Queens Sports Club served as a home ground for the Matabeleland team.^[7]

International Centuries

Test Centuries

Only two Test centuries have been scored at the venue.^[8]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	119	Rod Latham	New Zealand	214	Zimbabwe	1 November 1992	Drawn
2	101*	Kevin Arnott	Zimbabwe	200	New Zealand	1 November 1992	Drawn

One Day International Centuries

Four One Day International centuries have been scored at the venue.^[9]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	157*	Calum MacLeod	Scotland	146	Afghanistan	4 March 2018	Won
2	127	Richie Berrington	Scotland	136	United Arab Emirates	23 June 2023	Won
3	136	Brandon McMullen	Scotland	121	Oman	25 June 2023	Won
4	162	Paul Stirling	Ireland	134	United Arab Emirates	27 June 2023	Won