Castle Avenue Cricket Ground, also known as Clontarf Cricket Club Ground, is a
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
ground in the suburb of
Clontarf,
Dublin
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,
Ireland
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. It is one of two grounds of
Clontarf Cricket Club
Clontarf Cricket Club is a cricket club in Dublin, Ireland, playing in Division 1 of the Leinster Senior League. Based at Clontarf Cricket Club Ground, the club also has playing facilities in the grounds of Mount Temple Comprehensive School
...
, the other being at
Mount Temple Comprehensive School, and is also home to two rugby union pitches belonging to
Clontarf FC
Clontarf Football Club is an Republic of Ireland, Irish rugby union club based in Clontarf, Dublin and playing, as of 2018, in Division 1A of the All-Ireland League (rugby union), All-Ireland League.
History
Having played firstly in a field a ...
. The ground is one of only three One Day International grounds on the island of Ireland.
Location and dimensions
The ground lies near
Clontarf Castle
Clontarf Castle ( ga, Caisleán Chluain Tarbh) is a much-modernised castle, dating to 1837, in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland, an area famous as a key location of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. There has been a castle on the site since 1172. In mod ...
, and is home to Clontarf Cricket Club. The 50th anniversary of the first game played on the current cricket field was celebrated in 2008. It has a capacity of 3,200 spectators.
Other sports
There are also two
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
pitches within the complex, which are home to Clontarf FC since 1876.
International cricket
Clontarf is one of three
One Day International
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(ODI) grounds in Ireland (the others being
Stormont in
Belfast
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and
Malahide in Dublin), hosting its first ODI match on 21 May 1999 as part of the
1999 Cricket World Cup
The 1999 Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Cricket World Cup '99) was the seventh edition of the Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was hosted primarily by England, with Scotland, Ireland, Wales ...
when
Bangladesh
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played the
West Indies
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.
Ireland
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played their first ODI at that venue in July 2007 against the
West Indies
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as part of a
quadrangular series.
It was selected as a venue to host matches in the
2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier
The 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, for the 2016 World Twenty20, was held from 6 to 26 July 2015. The tournament was hosted by both Ireland and Scotland. 51 matches were played among 14 nations, down from 72 matches among 16 nations previous ...
tournament.
In May 2017, the venue hosted its first match between two
Full Member teams when Bangladesh played New Zealand in the
2017 Ireland Tri-Nation Series
The 2017 Ireland Tri-Nation Series was a One Day International cricket tournament that took place in Ireland in May 2017. It was a tri-nation series between Ireland, Bangladesh and New Zealand. The matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Cha ...
.
Records
International centuries
ODI Centuries
Eight ODI centuries have been scored at the venue.
International five-wicket hauls
Five-wicket hauls have been taken on the ground on four occasions, all of them in ODIs.
Notes
References
External links
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Cricket Europe profileClontarf RFC profileClontarf C.C. website
Cricket grounds in the Republic of Ireland
Clontarf FC
Sports venues in Dublin (city)
Sports venues completed in 1958
Cricket grounds in County Dublin
1999 Cricket World Cup stadiums
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