The Rutland Recreation Ground 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
Ilkeston,
Derbyshire (not the historical county of
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 ...
, as the name may suggest). The
Derbyshire first XI played at the ground regularly between 1925 and 1994, with the ground hosting at least one
County Championship match - and sometimes as many as three or four – each year until 1978. The ground also saw
John Player League matches in the 1970s. The ground hosted 93
first-class matches and 16
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 ...
matches.
Game Information:
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Game Statistics: first-class:
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Game Statistics: one-day:
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References
External links
Cricinfo Website - Ground Page
{{Derbyshire CCC
Cricket grounds in Derbyshire
Ilkeston
Sports venues completed in 1925