Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground

Last updated

Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground
Ground information
Location Virginia, Free State
Team information
Impalas (1986/87)
Orange Free State (later Free State)(1986/87–1996/97)
Source: CricketArchive

Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground is a cricket ground in Virginia, Free State, South Africa, near to the Harmony Gold mines. The ground hosted four first-class matches, 19 List A matches and two other matches between 1966 and 1996; the ground has been the home venue for Orange Free State (later Free State) and Impalas. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

History

The first recorded match at the Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground was a one day match in December 1966 between Orange Free State Country Districts and Australians. Australians won by 7 wickets, but carried on batting after winning the match, with Grahame Thomas scoring 95 runs. [4] [5] In the 1967/68 season, the ground hosted another one day match, this time between Orange Free State and South Africa Country Districts; the match ended in a draw. [6] In November 1986, the Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground hosted its first first-class and List A matches. [1] [2] On 19 November, Impalas played Western Province in a List A fixture as part of the 1986/87 Benson & Hedges Series; Western Province won the match by 134 runs. [7] Eight days later, the ground hosted a 3-day first-class match between South African Board President's XI and an Australian XI; Brian Whitfield scored 129* in the South African Board President's XI first innings, and they the match by 3 wickets. [8] The last recorded first-class match at the ground was between Orange Free State and Transvaal in 1991/92, which Orange Free State won by 101 runs, [1] [9] and the last recorded List A match at the ground was between Free State and Easterns in the 1996/97 Standard Bank League, and was won by Easterns by 89 runs. [2] [10] The ground holds the record for lowest scores for (Orange) Free State in all matches against Transvaal (now Gauteng), Impalas and Sri Lankans, with totals of 121, 187, and 221 respectively. [11]

In 2014, a rockfall in an illegal gold mine behind the cricket ground almost trapped 200 miners. [12] [13]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">South Africa national cricket team</span> National cricket team of South Africa

The South Africa men's national cricket team, also known as the Proteas, represents South Africa in men's international cricket and is administered by Cricket South Africa (CSA). South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Its nickname derives from South Africa's national flower, Protea cynaroides, commonly known as the "King Protea".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Graeme Pollock</span> South African cricketer

Robert Graeme Pollock is a former cricketer for South Africa, Transvaal and Eastern Province. A member of a famous cricketing family, Pollock is widely regarded as one of South Africa's greatest ever cricketers, and as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. Despite Pollock's international career being cut short at the age of 26 by the sporting boycott of South Africa, and all but one of his 23 Test matches being against England and Australia, the leading cricket nations of the day, he broke a number of records. His completed career Test match batting average of 60.97 remains the third best behind Sir Don Bradman and Adam Voges.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CSA 4-Day Domestic Series</span> Cricket tournament

The CSA 4-Day Domestic Series is the domestic first class cricket competition of South Africa. The tournament is contested by teams from all nine provinces of South Africa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ron Saggers</span> Australian cricketer (1917–1987)

Ronald Arthur Saggers was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales. He played briefly for the Australian team, playing six Tests between 1948 and 1950. In his Test cricket career he made 24 dismissals and scored 30 runs at an average of 10.00.

Alfred Henry Cecil Cooper was a South African cricketer who played a single Test match for the South African national side during the 1913–14 season. Domestically, he played for Transvaal from 1912 to 1928.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eric Marx</span> South African cricketer

Waldemar Frederick Eric Marx was a South African cricketer who played in three Tests in 1921.

Stanley Keppel "Shunter" Coen was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1927–28. He was born in Heilbron, Orange Free State, and died in Durban, Natal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anton Murray</span> South African cricketer

Anton Ronald Andrew Murray was a South African cricketer who played in 10 Test matches in a little over a year from December 1952 to February 1954, appearing four times against Australia and then six times against New Zealand. He later toured England as a member of the 1955 South African side but did not appear in any of the Tests there. Outside cricket, he was a schoolmaster who founded a noted school in Pretoria.

Free State is the first-class cricket team representing the province of Free State in South Africa. For the purposes of the SuperSport Series, Free State merged with Griqualand West and formed the Eagles cricket team franchise. The team was called Orange Free State from January 1904 to April 1995; it has been part of the Eagles from October 2004.

This article describes the history of South African cricket from its known beginnings until the end of the First World War in 1918.

This article describes the history of South African cricket from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the start of South Africa's cricket isolation in 1970.

South Africa resumed official international cricket in 1991 after the moratorium imposed by the International Cricket Conference in 1970 was lifted. This was the first edition of the sir Vivian Richards trophy. This had restricted official contact with South Africa as a response to the policy of apartheid and South Africa's refusal to select non-white players for their international sporting teams. It formed part of the wider sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era. The South African national team made a short tour of India in 1991. It then played in the 1992 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The decade saw a number of tours of South Africa by major international teams as well as the continued playing of domestic competitions.

Jacobus "Kosie" Francois Venter is a former South African cricketer. Venter was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

The Impalas cricket team represented minor provinces in South Africa's domestic Benson and Hedges Night Series Trophy List A cricket competition for ten seasons between 1984-85 and 1993-94.

S. B. Joel's XI cricket team in South Africa in 1924–25 was a team of English cricketers which toured South Africa between November 1924 and February 1925 and played 14 first-class cricket matches and seven other games. The tour was an unofficial one: an official tour of Australia organised by the Marylebone Cricket Club took place at the same time.

South African Universities are a former first-class cricket team in South Africa. They played 35 first-class friendly matches, usually one match per season, between March 1949 and January 1990.

Graham Michael Charlesworth is an English former first-class cricketer and the coach of Oxford University Cricket Club. Charlesworth has played first-class and List A cricket for Griqualand West, Cambridge University, Impalas, and Combined Universities.

Glen Charles Abbott was a South African cricketer, who played for Griqualand West and Northern Tranvaal. He previously played for the Tshwane University of Technology cricket club.

Raymond Watson-Smith is a former South African cricketer. Playing for Border in 1969–70, he scored a not-out century in each of his first two first-class matches, and reached 310 runs before being dismissed.

Stuart James Gardiner is a South African former cricketer.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "First-Class Matches Played On Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground, Virginia (4)". Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "List A Matches Played on Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground, Virginia (19)". Archived from the original on 19 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Other Matches Played on Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground, Virginia (2)". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Orange Free State Country Districts v Australians". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground, Virginia". Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "Orange Free State v South African Country Districts". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Impalas v Western Province A". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "South African Board President's XI v Australian XI". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "Orange Free State v Transvaal". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "Free State v Easterns". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "Lowest Total for Free State Against Each Team". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  12. ↑ Agence France-Presse (22 February 2015). "Nearly 500 South African Workers Rescued after Mine Fire". NDTV.com. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  13. ↑ "'Over 200 feared trapped' in South African illegal gold mine". Daily Nation. 16 February 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2016.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.