Ground information | |||
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Location | Leicester, England | ||
Establishment | 1878 | ||
Capacity | 6,000 cricket matches / 19,999 music concerts | ||
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Pavilion End Bennett End | |||
International information | |||
First ODI | 11 June 1983: India v Zimbabwe | ||
Last ODI | 27 May 1999: Scotland v West Indies | ||
Only women's Test | 8–12 August 2006: England v India | ||
First WODI | 30 June 1984: England v New Zealand | ||
Last WODI | 14 September 2023: England v Sri Lanka | ||
Team information | |||
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As of 21 September 2021 Source: CricketArchive |
Grace Road, known for sponsorship reasons as the Uptonsteel County Ground, Grace Road, [1] is a cricket ground in Leicester, England. It is the home ground and administrative base of Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
Leicestershire County Cricket Club bought in 1877 the land on which Grace Road now stands from the then Duke of Rutland, and spent the massive sum of £40,000 on developing a cricket club, athletic track and hotel. [2] The first match played there took place three months later, when Leicestershire played a touring Australia team. Contrary to popular belief, the road was named after Grace Margaret Yearby, the daughter of a local property owner Edward John Yearby, not W. G. Grace.
Leicestershire CCC left the Grace Road site in 1901, owing to low attendances at matches, which were blamed on lack of public transport to the ground. [3] The club moved to a site near to Aylestone Road in order to be closer to the city centre. Leicestershire eventually returned to Grace Road in 1946, after the end of the Second World War, [4] and has been based there ever since, re-purchasing the land in 1966.
The record attendance, at Leicestershire's match against the touring 1948 Australians, is 16,000.
Three One Day Internationals have been played at Grace Road, although none has involved the England team.
In the 1983 Cricket World Cup eventual winners India, chasing a target of 156, beat Zimbabwe by five wickets. [5] The second and third games were both in the 1999 World Cup. In the second Zimbabwe beat India by three runs, [6] and in the third the West Indies beat Scotland by eight wickets. [7]
One WTest century has been scored at the venue. [8]
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Opposing team | Innings | Date | Result |
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1 | 115 | Claire Taylor | England | 233 | India | 3 | 8 August 2006 | Drawn |
Seven WODI centuries have been scored at the venue. [9]
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Opposing team | Innings | Date | Result |
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1 | 106 | Heather Knight | England | 109 | Pakistan | 1 | 27 June 2017 | Won |
2 | 137 | Natalie Sciver (1/2) | England | 92 | Pakistan | 1 | 27 June 2017 | Won |
3 | 104* | Deandra Dottin | West Indies | 76 | Pakistan | 1 | 11 July 2017 | Won |
4 | 117* | Sophie Devine | New Zealand | 116 | England | 2 | 13 July 2018 | Won |
5 | 114 | Tammy Beaumont (1/2) | England | 115 | Australia | 1 | 4 July 2019 | Lost |
6 | 119 | Tammy Beaumont (2/2) | England | 107 | South Africa | 1 | 18 July 2022 | Won |
7 | 120 | Nat Sciver-Brunt (2/2) | England | 74 | Sri Lanka | 1 | 14 September 2023 | Won |
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