The County 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
Exeter
Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol.
In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...
,
Devon. The earliest recorded match on the ground was in 1889 between the Gentlemen of Devon and
Somerset. In 1902,
Devon played their first
Minor Counties Championship
The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...
match on the ground, which was against
Wiltshire. From 1902 to 1987, the ground played host to 148 Minor Counties Championship matches and a single
MCCA Knockout Trophy match between Devon and
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...
in 1984. The ground hosted its first Minor Counties match in 23 years in May 2010, when Devon played
Wales Minor Counties.
The ground has hosted two
first-class matches, the first of which came in 1927, when the West played the touring
New Zealanders. The second and final first-class match played on the ground came the following year, when a combined
Minor Counties cricket team played the touring
West Indians.
The only
List-A match played on the ground came in the
1980 Gillette Cup between Devon and
Cornwall, which Devon won by 145 runs.
In local domestic cricket, the County Ground is the home of
Exeter Cricket Club who play in the Tolchards Drinks-sponsored
Devon Cricket League. The club has played on the ground since 1902, when it became tenants of Devon CCC. Previously the club's home ground was at Grâs Lawn.
The Devon Dumplings,
Devon Dumplings CC website
/ref> a wandering club with no fixed abode, has hired the County Ground on a regular basis since its formation in 1902.
References
External links
on CricketArchive
on Cricinfo
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Cricket grounds in Devon
Sport in Exeter
Devon County Cricket Club
Sports venues completed in 1889