The Ian Healy Oval 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

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, Australia, named after the former Australian international cricketer

Ian Healy Ian Andrew Healy (born 30 April 1964) is an Australian former international cricketer who played for Queensland domestically. A specialist wicketkeeper and useful right-hand middle-order batsman, he made an unheralded entry to international c ...

. In March 2021, it would have become a

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venue by hosting a match in the

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, but the match was eventually abandoned due to rain. Prior to the

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, the ground hosted a warm-up match between

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and the England Lions.

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