Senwes Cricket Stadium is a

Cricket ground 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 ...

Potchefstroom, North West Province Potchefstroom (, colloquially known as Potch) is an academic city in the North West Province of South Africa. It hosts the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University. Potchefstroom is on the Mooi Rivier (Afrikaans for "pretty river ...

, South Africa. It has hosted two Test matches, with the first in 2002. The

Highveld Lions DP World Lions is a professional cricket team in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The home venue is the DP World Wanderers Stadium. The team plays in the CSA 4-Day Series first class cricket competition as well as in the Momentum 1 Day Cup, CSA Pro ...

also play some home matches here. It is also home to

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, the

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, body responsible for developing the game in that country and the stadium is home to the

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, the ''Lions''. On 29 October 2017, the venue hosted its first

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match for South Africa against Bangladesh, which was the 100th T20I for South Africa. As of 2008, due to a

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agreement, the ground was renamed to Senwes Park. It had been known as ''Sedgars Park''.

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Cricinfo's Senwes Park page
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