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
40 [13] [14] [15]
United Services Ground Plymouth 11 July 1904
v Cornwall
29 July 2001
v Oxfordshire
170 [16] [17]
Kelly College Ground
Kelly College Landscape.jpg
Tavistock 13 July 1906
v Cornwall
23 July 1913
v Berkshire
40 [18] [19]
Cricketfield Road
Cricket on Cricketfield Road, Torquay - geograph.org.uk - 3479738.jpg
Torquay only match:
4 August 1909
v Carmarthenshire
 10 [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
120 [25] [26]
Peverell Park Plymouth 20 August 1926
v Cornwall
23 July 1975
v Berkshire
200 [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 , Blundell's School, Cricket Field - geograph.org.uk - 1789087.jpg
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
160 [35] [36]
Court Lane Seaton 6 August 1951
v Dorset
31 July 1967
v Somerset Second XI
80 [37] [38]
Pilton Ground Barnstaple only match:
23 July 1954
v Cornwall
 10 [39] [40]
St Thomas Cricket Club Ground Exeter 28 July 1965
v Berkshire
23 August 1972
v Oxfordshire
70 [41] [42]
The Ring
Tavistock Cricket Ground - geograph.org.uk - 87231.jpg
Tavistock only match:
22 July 1976
v Dorset
 10 [43] [44]
Kate Brook Chudleigh 1 August 1978
v Dorset
31 July 1979
v Dorset
20 [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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  16. "United Services Ground, Plymouth". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
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  22. "Fortfield Road, Sidmouth". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
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