Tring Park Cricket Club Ground currently known as London Road is a

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ground in

Tring Tring is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England. It is situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, from Central London. Tring is linked to ...

, Hertfordshire. Tring Park Cricket Club have played on the ground since 1874. The club's 1st XI is currently in the Home Counties Premier League. Hertfordshire played Buckinghamshire in the ground's first Minor Counties Championship match in 1959. From 1959 to 1999, the ground played host to 12 Minor Counties Championship matches and a single

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 2009, Buckinghamshire began using the venue as one of their home grounds when they played

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in the Minor Counties Championship; they used the ground in 2010 for a single match. The ground has also hosted

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matches played by

Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...

. The first List-A match on the ground came in the 1974

John Player League The NatWest Pro40 League was a one-day cricket league for first-class cricket counties in England and Wales. It was inaugurated in 1999, but was essentially the old Sunday League retitled to reflect large numbers of matches being played on days ...

between Northamptonshire and

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. From 1974 to 1991, the ground held 16 List-A matches, the last of which was between Northamptonshire and Surrey. The ground hosted 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 Australia women and Trinidad and Tobago women in the

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.Women's One-Day International Matches played on Tring Park Cricket Club Ground
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