Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground

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Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground
National Cricket Performance Centre
Ground information
Location Krefeld, Germany
Establishment2021
End names
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International information
First T20I5 August 2021:
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany v Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Last T20I11 June 2023:
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany v Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
First WT20I8 July 2021:
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany v Flag of France.svg  France
Last WT20I3 July 2022:
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany v Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia
As of 11 June 2023
Source: Cricinfo

The Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in Krefeld, Germany. Built to international standards, it is part of Germany's national cricket performance centre, which includes a three lane indoor training net facility. [1]

The performance centre, a joint venture between the German Cricket Federation and SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen, a local sports club, is located at and adjacent to the Bayer Sportstadion. It was constructed over the winter of 2020–21. [1]

In July 2021, the ground was the venue for the first ever Women's Twenty20 Internationals to be held in Germany, when Germany's women's team hosted a touring French women's team in a five-match bilateral series. [2] [3] Early the following month, the ground hosted the first Twenty20 Internationals to be held in Germany, when the German Cricket Federation staged a trilateral series there between Germany, Norway and France. [4]

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