The
Dorset County Cricket Club was established in February 1896. Since then, it has played
minor counties cricket since 1897 and played
List A cricket from 1968 to 2004, using a different number of
home grounds during that time. Their first minor counties fixture in 1897 was against
Wiltshire at the Recreation Ground, Blandford Forum, while their first
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 ...
match came 71 years later against
Bedfordshire in the
1968 Gillette Cup
The 1968 Gillette Cup was the sixth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 27 April and 7 September 1968. The tournament was won by Warwickshire County Cricket Club who defeated Sussex County Cricke ...
at
Sherborne School. The club is based at
Dean Park, Bournemouth
Dean Park is a cricket ground in Bournemouth, England, currently used by Bournemouth University Cricket Club, as well as by Parley Cricket Club and Suttoners Cricket Club. It was formerly used by Hampshire and Dorset County Cricket Clubs. This v ...
, which also held
first-class and List A cricket for
Hampshire from 1897 to 1992.
The seventeen grounds that Dorset have used for home matches since 1897 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2012 season.
Grounds
List A
''Below is a complete list of grounds used by Dorset County Cricket Club when it was permitted to play List A matches. These grounds have also held Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.''
Minor Counties
''Below is a complete list of grounds used by the Dorset County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.''
Notes
References
{{English county cricket grounds
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Cricket grounds in Dorset
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