Lancot Park 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 str ...
ground in
Dunstable
Dunstable ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, east of the Chiltern Hills, north of London. There are several steep chalk escarpments, most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the ...
,
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The county has been administered by three unitary authorities, Borough of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Borough of Luton, since Bedfordshire County Council ...
. Situated at the foot of Dunstable Downs, on the outskirts of the village of Totternhoe, Lancot Park is the home of Dunstable Town Cricket Club. The ground and clubhouse was constructed in 1993 and hosted its first
Minor Counties Championship the following year, when Bedfordshire played
Northumberland
Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey.
It is bordered by land ...
in 1994. From 1994 to 2008, the ground played host to 13 Minor Counties Championship matches, with the final Minor Counties Championship match played to date at the ground in 2008 seeing Bedfordshire host
Suffolk. The ground has also hosted 5
MCCA Knockout Trophy
The National Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the National Counties in English cricket. At first it was known as the ''English Industrial Estates Cup'', before being called the ...
matches, the most recent of which saw Bedfordshire play
Buckinghamshire in 2009.
The ground has also hosted a single
List A match between Bedfordshire and the
Derbyshire Cricket Board in the 1st round of the
2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, which was played in 2001.
The
Northamptonshire Second XI have also used the ground for
Second XI Championship
The Second XI Championship is a season-long cricket competition in England that is competed for by the reserve teams of those county cricket clubs that have first-class status. The competition started in 1959 and has been contested annually ever ...
matches.
In local domestic cricket, Lancot Park is the home ground of
Dunstable Town Cricket Club, who play Saturday cricket in the
Hertfordshire Cricket League a and in the Bedfordshire League on Sundays.
Dunstable Town Cricket Club
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References
External links
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on Cricinfo
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Cricket grounds in Bedfordshire
Sports venues completed in 1993
Dunstable