List of Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club grounds

Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club was established in 1988, with it joining the Minor Counties Championship in the same year as a replacement for the Somerset Second XI who had withdrawn from the Minor Counties Championship at the end of the previous season. The club has played minor counties cricket since, and played List A cricket from 1993 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1988 was against Shropshire at the Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground, Welshpool, while their first home List A match came six years later against Middlesex in the 1994 NatWest Trophy at Smithy Lane, Northop Hall.

The 23 grounds that Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club have used for home matches since 1988 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.

Grounds

Map

List of Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club grounds is located in Wales
Panteg House Ground
Panteg House Ground
Marchwiel Hall Cricket Ground
Marchwiel Hall Cricket Ground
Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground
Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground
Lower Mill Street
Lower Mill Street
Croft-y-Genau Road
Croft-y-Genau Road
Eugene Cross Park
Marespool
Marespool
Tanyfron Sports Complex
Tanyfron Sports Complex
Spytty Park
Spytty Park
Hoover's Sports Ground
Stradey Park
Recreation Ground, Penarth
Recreation Ground, Penarth
Ammanford Park
Ammanford Park
Pen-y-Pound
Penrhyn Avenue
Smithy Lane
St. Helen's
Sophia Gardens
Pontarddulais Park
Burnham Avenue
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Locations of grounds used by Wales Minor Counties

List A

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club when it was permitted to play List A matches. These grounds have also held Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.

Name Location First Last Matches First Last Matches First Last Matches Refs
List A Minor Counties Championship MCCA Trophy
Smithy Lane
 Northop Hall only match:
21 June 1994
v Middlesex		   1 only match:
18 August 1993
v Oxfordshire		   1 17 May 1992
v Staffordshire		 11 June 1995
v Cumberland		 2 [1][2][3][4]
Penrhyn Avenue
 Colwyn Bay only match:
24 June 1998
v Nottinghamshire		   1 12 June 1988
v Shropshire		 5 June 2005
v Shropshire		 14 – – 0 [5][6][7][n 1]
St Helen's
 Swansea 23 June 1999
v Somerset		 4 May 2005
v Nottinghamshire		 4 21 August 1989
v Devon		 26 May 2008
v Dorset		 17 20 May 1990
v Oxfordshire		 4 April 2004
v Berkshire		 2 [8][9][10][11][n 2]
Pontarddulais Park Pontarddulais only match:
2 May 2000
v Buckinghamshire		   1 30 August 1992
v Devon		 8 June 2014
v Shropshire		 18 20 May 2001
v Herefordshire		 2 May 2010
v Wiltshire		 5 [12][13][14][15]
Sophia Gardens
 Cardiff 16 May 2000
v Buckinghamshire		 29 May 2002
v Durham		 2 2 August 1988
v Cheshire		 8 July 2001
v Devon		 2 – – 0 [16][17][18][n 3]
Burnham Avenue
 Sully only match:
12 September 2002
v Cornwall		   1 – – 0 – – 0 [19][20]
Pen-y-Pound Abergavenny only match:
28 August 2003
v Denmark		   1 29 July 2001
v Herefordshire		 3 August 2014
v Dorset		 13 9 May 1999
v Herefordshire		 1 May 2011
v Cornwall		 6 [21][22][23][24][n 4]
Lamphey Cricket Club Ground Lamphey only match:
5 May 2004
v Middlesex		   1 only match:
30 June 2002
v Berkshire		   1 – – 0 [25][26][27]

Minor Counties

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.

Name Location First Last Matches First Last Matches Refs
Minor Counties Championship MCCA Trophy
Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground
 Welshpool – – 0 only match:
22 May 1988
v Shropshire		   1 [28][29]
Lower Mill Street
 Usk 9 August 1988
v Wiltshire		 22 June 2014
v Berkshire		 10 6 June 1993
v Shropshire		 20 May 2014
v Devon		 3 [30][31][32][n 5]
Eugene Cross Park
 Ebbw Vale 16 August 1988
v Dorset		 20 August 1992
v August		 5 only match:
15 May 2011
v Devon		   1 [33][34][35][n 6]
Ammanford Park
 Ammanford only match:
6 June 1989
v Buckinghamshire		   1 only match:
17 May 1998
v Warwickshire Cricket Board		   1 [36][37][38]
Recreation Ground Penarth 24 July 1990
v Cheshire		 11 August 1996
v Dorset		 3 only match:
7 July 2002
v Gloucestershire Cricket Board		   1 [39][40][41]
Stradey Park Llanelli only match:
26 May 1991
v Oxfordshire		   1 – – 0 [42][43][n 7]
Hoover's Sports Ground Merthyr Tydfil only match:
30 May 1993
v Herefordshire		   1 – – 0 [44][45][n 8]
Marchwiel Hall Cricket Ground
 Marchwiel 17 July 1994
v Cornwall		 18 June 1995
v Wiltshire		 2 – – 0 [46][47][n 9]
Panteg House
 Griffithstown – – 0 only match:
9 June 1996
v Cornwall		   1 [48][49][n 10]
Spytty Park Newport only match:
1 August 1999
v Herefordshire		   1 7 June 1998
v Wiltshire		 27 April 1914
v Cornwall		 2 [50][51][52]
Main Road Aberdulais only match:
6 August 2000
v Dorset		   1 30 May 1999
v Worcestershire Cricket Board		 25 June 2000
v Worcestershire Cricket Board		 2 [53][54][55]
Croft-y-Genau Road St Fagans only match:
22 August 1999
v Berkshire		   1 9 July 2000
v Shropshire		 27 April 2008
v Dorset		 2 [56][57][58]
Marespool Mumbles – – 0 4 June 2006
v Berkshire		 2 June 2013
v Berkshire		 3 [59][60]
Sports Complex Tanyfron – – 0 only match:
6 May 2012
v Buckinghamshire		   1 [61][62][n 11]
Cresselly Cricket Club Ground Cresselly – – 0 only match:
5 May 2013
v Staffordshire		   1 [63][64][n 12]

Notes

  1. ^ Glamorgan and Wales have played first-class cricket matches here. Glamorgan and the Unicorns have also played List A matches here. Only the List A match played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table. Denbighshire played Minor Counties Championship matches here between 1930–1935.
  2. ^ Glamorgan have played first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches here. Only the List A matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table. Prior to becoming a first-class county in 1921, Glamorgan played Minor Counties Championship matches here. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  3. ^ Home ground of Glamorgan for first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. Only the List A matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  4. ^ Glamorgan have played first-class and List A matches here. Only the List A match played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground is recorded in the table. Monmouthshire and the Glamorgan Second XI have previously Minor Counties Championship matches here. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  5. ^ The Glamorgan Second XI played one Minor Counties Championship match here in 1949. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  6. ^ Glamorgan have played first-class and List A matches at the ground. Both Monmouthshire and the Glamorgan Second XI have played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  7. ^ Glamorgan have played first-class and List A cricket at the ground. Carmarthenshire previously played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground. Only the Minor Counties Championship match played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  8. ^ Glamorgan have played two List A matches at the ground in the 1988 and 1989 Refuge Assurance League.
  9. ^ Denbighshire previously played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground. Only the Minor Counties Championship match played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  10. ^ Monmouthshire played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground between 1924–1932.
  11. ^ Denbighshire played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground in 1930 and 1935.
  12. ^ Glamorgan played a List A match here against Surrey in the 2007 Friends Provident Trophy.

References

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  5. ^ "Penrhyn Avenue, Colwyn Bay". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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  8. ^ "St. Helen's, Swansea". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
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  33. ^ "Eugene Cross Park, Ebbw Vale". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
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  42. ^ "Stradey Park, Llanelli". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
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  44. ^ "Hoover's Sports Ground, Merthyr Tydfil". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
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  46. ^ "Marchwiel Hall, Marchwiel". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
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  48. ^ "Panteg House, Griffithstown". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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  50. ^ "Spytty Park, Newport". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
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  53. ^ "Main Road, Ynysygerwn". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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  56. ^ "Croft-y-Genau Road, St Fagans". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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  59. ^ "Marespool, Mumbles". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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