Oakham School 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 striki ...

ground in Oakham,

Rutland Rutland () is a ceremonial county and unitary authority in the East Midlands, England. The county is bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire. Its greatest len ...

. Forming part of sports facilities of

Oakham School (Like runners, they pass on the torch of life) , established = , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent day and boarding , religion = Church of England , president ...

, the ground dates from around 1821.

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was first played at Oakham School in the 1935 County Championship, with

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

playing against

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. Leicestershire used the ground as an outground on three more occasions prior to the

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. Following a gap of 62 years, first-class cricket returned to Oakham School in 2000, when Leicestershire played the 1999 County Champions

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. The ground has since been used intermittently as an outground for first-class matches by Leicestershire, with five matches played there since 2000. During the first decade of the 2000s, Leicestershire played nine List A one-day matches at the ground between 2001–08, before returning after a ten year gap when they played

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in the 2018 Royal London One-Day Cup. In 2020, Leicestershire announced plans to revive the Oakham Cricket Festival and make it a permanent part of Leicestershire's county schedule.

Records

First-class * Highest team total: 534 all out by

v Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Derbyshire, 2004 * Lowest team total: 56 all out by

v Leicestershire, 1935 * Highest individual innings: 295not out, * by Ali Brown for

v Leicestershire, 2000 * Best bowling in an innings: 8–123 by Tich Freeman for Kent v Leicestershire, 1935 * Best bowling in a match: 11–106 by Frank Woolley, for Kent v Leicestershire, 1938 List A * Highest team total: 299 for 5 by Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire, 2007 * Lowest team total: 137 all out by Leicestershire v Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire, 2004 * Highest individual innings: 107 by Stephen Fleming for Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire, 2007 * Best bowling in an innings: 4–12 by Dinesh Mongia for Leicestershire v Somerset County Cricket Club, Somerset, 2005

References

{{Leicestershire CCC Oakham Cricket grounds in Rutland Leicestershire County Cricket Club

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