Hampshire County Cricket Club Hampshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Hampshire. Hampshire teams formed by earlier organisations, principal ...

was established in August 1863. Since then, the club has played first-class and

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at a number of different home grounds. Their first home first-class match was against

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in 1864 at the

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. The current headquarters of Hampshire County Cricket Club is the Rose Bowl, which located on the edge of Southampton. This venue is also used by

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as a

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and

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venue. As of 12 September 2011, Hampshire have played 1,396 first-class matches and 925 List A matches at 12 different home grounds. They have also played 45

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matches, all of which have taken place at the Rose Bowl. The 12 grounds that Hampshire have used for home matches are listed below, with statistics complete through the end of the 2011 season.

Grounds

Notes

References

{{English county cricket grounds Hampshire County Cricket Club Cricket grounds in Hampshire

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