Kensington Park is a

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ground in

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History

The Kensington Cricket Club was founded in 1880 as St Andrew Juniors Cricket Club and originally played their home matches in

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at Camperdown. The following year Cosmo Lorenzo Dicks was appointed captain and moved the club from Kingston to his property, 'Kensington', at Sligoville in

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. The club was then renamed to Kingston Cricket Club. In 1892, the club returned to Kensington and played their home matches at Winchester Park for nine years, before moving to Kensington Park in 1901. For much of its history the

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was based at the ground. Kensington Park first played host to first-class cricket in February 1909, when Jamaica played the touring Philadelphians, with the Philadelphians

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taking 16 wickets in the match. All of the buildings at the ground were destroyed by

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in 1951, but were rebuilt. In 1979, the club house was destroyed by fire, while in 2004 Hurricane Ivan caused damage to the roof of the new club house. Major cricket returned to the Park following an 89 year break in 1998, when three List A one-day matches were played there in the

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. Jamaica returned to the Park in 2000, playing a one-day match against a touring

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team. A further two one-day matches were played there in the

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, with first-class cricket returning to the Park following a 94 year gap, with Jamaica playing

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in the 2004–05 Carib Beer Cup. Jamaica played first-class matches at Kensington Park until 2010, with a further five one-day matches being played there to 2010.

Records

First-class

*Highest team total: 410 for 6

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by Jamaica v

, 2004–05 *Lowest team total: 84 all out by Jamaica v Philadelphians, 1908–09 *Highest individual innings: 110 by Tamar Lambert for Jamaica v

, 2006–07 *Best bowling in an innings: 8-31 by

for Philadelphians v Jamaica, 1908–09 *Best bowling in a match: 16-86 by H. V. Horden, as above

List A

*Highest team total: 330 for 4 (50 overs) by

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v United States, 1998–99 *Lowest team total: 48 all out (26.3 overs) by Bermuda v Windward Islands, 1999–00 *Highest individual innings: 126 by

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for Leeward Islands v United States, 1998–99 *Best bowling in an innings: 5-35 by Richard Basden for Bermuda v Windward Islands, 1999–00

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