List of Devon County Cricket Club grounds

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Devon County Cricket Club was established on 26 November 1899. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1901 and played List A cricket from 1969 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1901 was against Wiltshire at Gras Lawn, Exeter, while their first home List A match came 77 years later against Staffordshire in the 1978 Gillette Cup at the Recreation Ground, Torquay.

Contents

The twenty grounds that Devon have used for home matches since 1901 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 Devon 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
Recreation Ground
Pavilion, Torquay Seafront Recreation Ground.jpg
Torquay 5 July 1978
v Staffordshire 		8 June 2014
v Cheshire		519 August 1932
v Surrey Second XI 		10 July 2011
v Cheshire 		6812 June 1983
v Buckinghamshire 		10 June 2004
v Suffolk 		9 [1] [2] [3] [4] [n 1]
County Ground, Exeter
Student flats overlooking Exeter Cricket Club ground (geograph 5023915).jpg
Exeter only match:
2 July 1980
v Cornwall 		 18 August 1902
v Wiltshire 		3 August 2014
v Shropshire 		14917 June 1984
v Oxfordshire 		9 May 2010
v Wales Minor Counties 		2 [5] [6] [7] [8] [n 2]
The Maer Ground
Exmouth Cricket Ground - geograph.org.uk - 1091496.jpg
Exmouth 25 June 1986
v Nottinghamshire 		3 May 2005
v Essex 		163 August 1951
v Berkshire 		17 August 2014
v Berkshire		542 June 1991
v Wiltshire 		13 June 2010
v Hertfordshire 		8 [9] [10] [11] [12] [n 3]

Minor Counties

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

NameLocationFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesRefs
Minor Counties Championship MCCA Trophy
Gras Lawn Exeter 9 August 1901
v Wiltshire 		30 August 1901
v Glamorgan 		4––0 [13] [14] [15]
United Services Ground Plymouth 11 July 1904
v Cornwall 		29 July 2001
v Oxfordshire 		17––0 [16] [17]
Kelly College Ground
Kelly College Landscape.jpg
Tavistock 13 July 1906
v Cornwall 		23 July 1913
v Berkshire 		4––0 [18] [19]
Cricketfield Road
Cricket on Cricketfield Road, Torquay - geograph.org.uk - 3479738.jpg
Torquay only match:
4 August 1909
v Carmarthenshire 		 1––0 [20] [21]
Fortfield Road
Sidmouth Cricket Club (geograph 5407702).jpg
Sidmouth 13 July 1914
v Monmouthshire 		6 July 2014
v Cheshire 		393 July 1984
v Cornwall 		13 July 2014
v Cheshire 		7 [22] [23] [24]
The Newton Abbot and District Recreational Ground
The Rec, Newton Abbot - geograph.org.uk - 4204276.jpg
Newton Abbot 22 July 1925
v Monmouthshire 		23 July 1985
v Berkshire 		12––0 [25] [26]
Peverell Park Plymouth 20 August 1926
v Cornwall 		23 July 1975
v Berkshire 		20––0 [27] [28]
Sandhills
North Devon Cricket Ground, Instow.jpg
Instow 18 August 1933
v Surrey Second XI 		17 August 2008
v Shropshire 		1822 June 1986
v Durham 		27 April 2014
v Wiltshire 		9 [29] [30] [31]
Blundell's School Tiverton 4 August 1947
v Dorset 		22 August 1969
v Oxfordshire 		3only match:
18 June 1989
v Dorset 		 1 [32] [33] [34]
Queen's Park
Paignton RFC Main Rugby Pitch.jpg
Paignton 5 August 1949
v Dorset 		18 August 1976
v Cornwall 		16––0 [35] [36]
Court Lane Seaton 6 August 1951
v Dorset 		31 July 1967
v Somerset Second XI 		8––0 [37] [38]
Pilton Ground Barnstaple only match:
23 July 1954
v Cornwall 		 1––0 [39] [40]
St Thomas Cricket Club Ground Exeter 28 July 1965
v Berkshire 		23 August 1972
v Oxfordshire 		7––0 [41] [42]
The Ring
Tavistock Cricket Ground - geograph.org.uk - 87231.jpg
Tavistock only match:
22 July 1976
v Dorset 		 1––0 [43] [44]
Kate Brook Chudleigh 1 August 1978
v Dorset 		31 July 1979
v Dorset		2––0 [45] [46]
Recreation Ground
Bovey Tracey cricket ground and pavilion.jpg
Bovey Tracey 26 August 1980
v Cornwall 		24 July 2007
v Wiltshire 		272 June 1985
v Wiltshire 		21 April 2013
v Oxfordshire 		9 [47] [48] [49]
Ottermouth
Budleigh Salterton cricket club - geograph.org.uk - 1140416.jpg
Budleigh Salterton 26 May 1996
v Dorset 		5 August 2007
v Cornwall 		410 May 1998
v Dorset 		18 May 2008
v Herefordshire 		3 [50] [51] [52]
The War Memorial Playing Fields
Cricket match at Chagford - geograph.org.uk - 898399.jpg
Chagford ––0only match:
21 June 1998
v Cornwall 		 1 [53] [54]

Notes

  1. ↑ Twelve first-class cricket matches have been played on the ground: firstly during the 1950s the ground was used by the South of England cricket team in the North v South fixture on five occasions, and the ground also saw use by an England XI against the Commonwealth XI cricket team on four occasions during the same period. A combined Minor Counties cricket team later played three first-class matches there against touring international sides in the 1970s. Somerset played five List A matches there between 1969 and 1975. Minor Counties West also played one List A match here in the 1974 Benson & Hedges Cup. Only the List A matches played by Devon at the ground are recorded in the table.
  2. ↑ Two first-class cricket matches have been played at the ground. The first was between the West of England cricket team and the touring New Zealanders in 1927; the second was between a combined Minor Counties cricket team and the touring West Indians in 1928.
  3. ↑ The Unicorns cricket team also played two List A matches at the ground in the 2010 and 2011 Clydesdale Bank 40. Only the List A matches played by Devon at the ground are recorded in the table.

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