Meir Heath Cricket Club 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 ...
club and ground in
Meir Heath,
Staffordshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1991, when
Staffordshire played
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to ...
in the grounds only
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 ...
match. In 1992, it held its first
Minor Counties Championship match which saw Staffordshire play
Suffolk. The following year, the ground held its second and to date final Minor Counties Championship match, which was between Staffordshire and
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...
.
The ground has also held a single
Women's One Day International
Women's One Day International (WODI) is the limited overs form of women's cricket. Matches are scheduled for 50 overs, equivalent to the men's game. The first women's ODIs were played in 1973, as part of the first Women's World Cup which was ...
between the
Netherlands women and
West Indies women in the
1993 Women's Cricket World Cup.
In local domestic cricket, Meir Heath Cricket Club use the ground as their home venue.
References
External links
Michelin Groundon CricketArchive
on
Cricinfo
Cricket grounds in Staffordshire
Sports venues in Stoke-on-Trent
Sports venues completed in 1991
1991 establishments in England
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