Dean Park is a

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Bournemouth Bournemouth () is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area of Dorset, England. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 183,491, making it the largest town in Dorset. It is situated on the English ...

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, currently used by Bournemouth University Cricket Club, as well as by Parley Cricket Club and Suttoners Cricket Club. It was formerly used by

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and

Dorset County Cricket Club Dorset County Cricket Club is one of twenty National county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Dorset. The team is currently a member of the National Counties Cricket Asso ...

s. This venue has now been bought by Bournemouth Park School. This building has since been transformed into a children's daycare facility.

History

Dean Park has hosted 343 first-class matches since 1897, but none since 1992. There have also been 77

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games at the ground, the most recent being in 2010. One

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, between

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and

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, was staged at Dean Park as part of the inaugural

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in 1973. on Tuesday 26 November 1878

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participated in one of the first floodlit matches, when they played under experimental electric lights at Dean Park for "a grand exhibition of the new electric light". In 1888 the club moved to Dean Park and changed their name to Bournemouth Dean Park. Following changes to county borders that transferred Bournemouth from Hampshire to Dorset, reflecting this the ground is now used by

as its main venue and club headquarters.

Records

First-class

* Highest team total: 610 by

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, 1906 * Lowest team total: 31 by Hampshire v

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, 1965 * Highest individual innings: 316 by Dick Moore for Hampshire v

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, 1937 * Best bowling in an innings: 9-39 by

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for

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v South of England, 1902 * Best bowling in a match: 15-68 by Hugh Trumble, as above

List A

* Highest team total: 333/4 (50 overs) by

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Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of , ...

, 2000Same match. * Lowest team total: 71 (33.2 overs) by

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nor ...

v Dorset, 2000Same match. * Highest individual innings: 156 by Matthew Elliott for Glamorgan v Dorset, 2000 * Best bowling in an innings: 5-10 by

Vyvian Pike Vyvian John Pike (born 13 August 1969) is a former English cricketer. Pike was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break. Pike made his debut for Dorset in the 1993 Minor Counties Championship against Cornwall. In Pike's first spell with th ...

for Dorset v Norfolk, 2000

References

External links

Dean Park, Bournemouth
CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 May 2007.

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