Ditchmore Lane 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 str ...
ground in
Stevenage,
Hertfordshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1921, when
Hertfordshire played their first
Minor Counties Championship match which was against
Buckinghamshire. From 1921 to 2000, the ground played host to 41 Minor Counties Championship matches and 2
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 ...
matches.
The ground hosted a single
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 ...
match in the
1969 Gillette Cup between Hertfordshire and
Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...
.
In local domestic cricket, Digswell Park is the home ground of
Stevenage Cricket ClubSteveange Cricket Club
/ref> who play in the Home Counties Premier Cricket League Division Two. The cricket club has existed since 1878 and is the oldest sports club in Stevenage.
References
External links
on CricketArchive
on Cricinfo
Cricket grounds in Hertfordshire
Stevenage
Sports venues completed in 1921
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