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 ...
ground in
Hinckley
Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England. It is administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Hinckley is the third largest settlement in the administrative county of Leicestershire, after Leicester and Loughbo ...
, Leicestershire. It was located along Coventry Road to the south, Trinity Lane to the east, with Trinity Vicarage Road to the north. Established in 1946, the ground had a capacity of 3,500.
History
The ground built after the
Ashby Road
The Ashby Road ground was a cricket stadium in the town of Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. It operated between 1911 and 1937. It is now a housing estate.
Ashby Road had been used by Leicestershire as an out-ground, and held 19 games. The first ...
ground ceased the host cricket matches shortly before
World War II
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, leaving Hinckley without a venue for
first-class cricket
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. Local businessmen subsequently joined forces to raise funds for construction of a new ground, with a Mr. Arthur Tansey donating three fields along the Coventry Road, upon which a pitch and
pavilion
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* It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often it is associated with pleasure. In palaces and traditional mansions of Asia ...
was built. First-class cricket returned to Hinckley in 1951, when Leicestershire played
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
in the
County Championship
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. From 1952 to 1957, Leicestershire played two first-class matches per season at the ground. Leicestershire didn't play in 1956, but returned the following season, where they proceeded to play one match per season until 1961. Two first-class matches were played in 1962, although Leicestershire didn't visit in 1963. The final two first-class matches to be held at the ground came in 1964, with Leicestershire playing
Somerset
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and
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
. Seventeen first-class matches were played in total, with Leicestershire winning just once, losing eleven and drawing five.
Subsequently demolished, the site was used for a leisure centre.
Records
First-class
* Highest team total: 372 by
Warwickshire
Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Av ...
v Leicestershire, 1954
* Lowest team total: 42 by Leicestershire v
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
, 1955
* Highest individual innings: 182 * by Jim Stewart for Warwickshire v Leicestershire, 1962
* Best bowling in an innings: 6-20 by
Brian Statham
John Brian Statham, (17 June 1930 – 10 June 2000) was an English professional cricketer from Gorton, in Manchester, who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1950 to 1968 and for England from 1951 to 1965.Coventry Road at
ESPNcricinfo
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