List Of Cricket Grounds In Australia
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. The list includes all grounds that have been used for
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, first-class,
List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
and domestic Twenty20 cricket matches. Grounds that have hosted international cricket games are listed in bold. The
Sydney Cricket Ground The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is used for Test cricket, Test, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket, as well as, Australian rules football and occasionally for rugby league, rugby union and as ...
has hosted the most first-class games in Australia, with 655 games as of the 2010–11 season. The
Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as "The 'G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadiu ...
has hosted the most List A games, with 228, and the
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and the
WACA Ground The WACA (formally the WACA Ground) is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia. The stadium's name derives from the initials of its owners and operators, the Western Australian Cricket Association. The WACA has been referred to as Wester ...
have both hosted 16
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games. The Melbourne Cricket Ground has hosted 884 games overall, an Australian record.


Australian Capital Territory


New South Wales


Northern Territory


Queensland


South Australia


Tasmania


Victoria

Match totals current up to 21 April 2014 (except Kardinia Park; See Notes section)


Western Australia


Top 10 most games hosted

*''Total matches held'' refers to the combined number of first-class,
List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
and
Twenty20 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...
matches held at one ground.


See also

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List of Test cricket grounds One hundred and twenty-one grounds have hosted Test cricket since the first officially recognised Test match between Australia and England in Melbourne in March 1877. The grounds are listed in the order in which they were first used as a venue f ...
– Full international list * List of Australian Football League grounds *
List of ice rinks in Australia There are 20 ice rinks in total around Australia. They are used for recreational, educational and private use. Most of these ice rinks have private lessons in all aspects of ice sports such as ice hockey and figure skating. Current venues Curren ...
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List of indoor arenas in Australia This is a list of indoor arenas in Australia. Indoor arenas *Total capacity shown. In some cases this may differ from seating capacity. • Retractable roof venues * Temporary tenants See also *List of Australian Football League grounds * Lis ...
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List of National Basketball League (Australia) venues The following list includes all current and former arenas used by current and List of defunct National Basketball League (Australia) teams, defunct teams playing in the National Basketball League (Australia), National Basketball League (NBL) duri ...
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List of Australian rugby league stadiums This is a list of Australian rugby league stadiums by capacity. National Rugby League stadiums This list includes all regular home grounds of National Rugby League clubs. Some of these venues have also hosted the Australian national rugby lea ...
* List of Australian rugby union stadiums *
List of soccer stadiums in Australia The following is a list of Soccer stadiums in Australia, ranked in descending order of capacity. There are many Soccer stadiums and pitches in Australia, so this list is not comprehensive. It includes only stadiums with a capacity of at least 5 ...
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List of Oceanian stadiums by capacity The following is an incomplete list of sports stadiums in Oceania. They are ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can accommodate. Currently all Oceanian stadiums with a capacity of 30,000 or more are inc ...


References


External links


Grounds in Australia – CricketArchiveHowSTAT! Grounds List
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Cricket grounds in Australia 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 strikin ...
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Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...