List of Bedfordshire County Cricket Club grounds

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Bedfordshire County Cricket Club was established on 3 November 1899; prior to that a county club had existed before, with Bedfordshire competing in the first Minor Counties Championship in 1895. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1900 and played List A cricket from 1967 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1895 was against Hertfordshire at Bedford School, while their first home List A match came 72 years later against Northamptonshire in the 1967 Gillette Cup at Wardown Park, Luton. Bedfordshire have played the majority of their minor counties fixtures at Bedford School and Wardown Park.

Contents

The eighteen grounds that Bedfordshire have used for home matches since 1895 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.

Grounds

List A

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Bedfordshire County Cricket Club when it was permitted to play List A matches. These grounds have also held Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.

NameLocationFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesRefs
List A Minor Counties Championship MCCA Trophy
Wardown Park
Luton, Wardown Park cricket ground - geograph.org.uk - 191439.jpg
Luton 26 April 1967
v Northamptonshire 		4 May 2005
v Sussex 		136 August 1906
v Buckinghamshire 		8 June 2014
v Suffolk 		1279 June 1996
v Oxfordshire 		20 June 2004
v Cornwall 		4 [1] [2] [3] [4] [n 1]
Goldington Bury
Bedford Cricket Club ground, Goldington, Bedfordshire.jpg
Bedford 25 May 1968
v Hampshire 		26 June 1991
v Worcestershire 		311 August 1967
v Hertfordshire 		27 July 2003
v Northumberland 		3231 May 1998
v Surrey Cricket Board 		25 June 2000
v Leicestershire Cricket Board 		3 [5] [6] [7] [8] [n 2]
Lancot Park
Dunstable Town Cricket Club - geograph.org.uk - 221937.jpg
Totternhoe only match:
29 August 2001
v Derbyshire Cricket Board 		 117 July 1994
v Northumberland 		8 July 2012
v Northumberland		1421 July 1996
v Wales Minor Counties 		4 May 2014
v Norfolk 		8 [9] [10] [11] [12]

Minor Counties

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Bedfordshire County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.

NameLocationFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesRefs
Minor Counties Championship MCCA Trophy
Bedford School Ground Bedford 5 August 1895
v Hertfordshire 		21 July 2013
v Hertfordshire		1816 June 1993
v Cambridgeshire 		17 May 2009
v Cumberland 		5 [13] [14] [15] [n 3]
Dunstable Grammar School Ground Dunstable 19 August 1895
v Wiltshire 		27 June 1905
v Northumberland 		6––0 [16] [17]
Bell Close Leighton Buzzard 29/30 July 1891
v Buckinghamshire 		31 July 1994
v Cumberland 		5––0 [18] [19]
Bedford County School Ground Bedford 21 June 1900
v Staffordshire 		24 June 1914
v Suffolk 		13––0 [20] [21]
Luton Hoo Park Luton 17 August 1900
v Oxfordshire 		9 August 1901
v Oxfordshire		2––0 [22] [23]
Bedford Modern School Ground
Bedford Modern School, Cricket Pavilion.jpg
Bedford 10 June 1901
v Surrey Second XI 		20 July 2014
v Cambridgeshire 		10only match:
9 May 2010
v Oxfordshire 		 1 [24] [25] [26]
WH Allen's Sports Ground Biddenham only match:
21 July 1920
v Norfolk 		 1––0 [27] [28]
Goldington Road Bedford only match:
9 June 1930
v Buckinghamshire 		 1––0 [29] [30]
Southill Park Southill 22 July 1972
v Hertfordshire 		13 August 2000
v Cambridgeshire 		2018 June 1989
v Hertfordshire 		9 June 2002
v Hertfordshire		4 [31] [32] [33]
Bull Pond Lane Dunstable 24 July 1972
v Shropshire 		9 June 1991
v Staffordshire 		15––0 [34] [35]
Vauxhall Motors Ground Luton 15 July 1973
v Cambridgeshire 		12 July 1975
v Cambridgeshire		3––0 [36] [37]
The Pyghties Henlow 23 July 1973
v Shropshire 		5 July 1998
v Northumberland 		22only match:
4 June 1989
v Cambridgeshire 		 1 [38] [39] [40]
Grange Lane Cople ––019 May 1991
v Buckinghamshire 		18 May 2014
v Hertfordshire 		4 [41] [42]
The Vale Westoning 4 June 2000
v Northumberland 		15 July 2001
v Staffordshire 		216 June 2002
v Essex Cricket Board 		18 May 2008
v Shropshire 		4 [43] [44] [45]
Ampthill Park
Cricket Club - geograph.org.uk - 847180.jpg
Ampthill 9 June 2013
v Buckinghamshire 		17 August 2014
v Lincolnshire 		214 May 2006
v Lincolnshire 		8 May 2011
v Hertfordshire 		6 [46] [47] [48]

Notes

  1. ↑ Northamptonshire played first-class and List A cricket matches here between 1973–1997. A combined Minor Counties cricket team played one List A match here against Northamptonshire in the 1998 Benson & Hedges Cup. Only the List A matches played by Bedfordshire at the ground are recorded in the table. Northamptonshire have also played one Twenty20 fixture here against Worcestershire in the 2004 Twenty20 Cup.
  2. ↑ Minor Counties South played a single List A match here against Essex in the 1975 Benson & Hedges Cup. Only the List A matches played by Bedfordshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
  3. ↑ Northamptonshire have played two List A matches here in 1971 and 1982.

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