Campbell Park is a

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ground in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, located in Campbell Park. The first recorded match on the ground in 1981, when the Northamptonshire Second XI played the Leicestershire Second XI in the Second Eleven Championship. The first

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match held on the ground came in 1997 when

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played

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in AXA Life League. In 1999, the ground hosted a List-A match between New Zealand A and Sri Lanka A. , the most recent List-A match held on the ground came in 2004 when Northamptonshire played

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in the Totesport League. In 2000, Campbell Park hosted a single first-class match between a First-Class Counties Select XI and New Zealand. In 2005, the ground hosted its first

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match when Northamptonshire played

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in the

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. From 2005 to 2008, the ground 4 Twenty20 matches, the last of which saw Northamptonshire play

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in the

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. Between 1998 and 2000, Buckinghamshire used the ground for

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matches, playing 2 Minor Counties Championship matches against Staffordshire and Suffolk and a single

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match against the Sussex Cricket Board. Campbell Park has held 2 Women's One Day Internationals; the first was between England women and South Africa women in 1997 and the second between India women and Ireland women in 1999. In local domestic cricket, the ground was the home venue of the Northamptonshire Cricket Academy who play in the

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. , Campbell Park is used by Stony Stratford Cricket Club for their Premier Division and Division 2 fixtures in the

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