List of Devon County Cricket Club grounds

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.

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.

Name	Location	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	Refs
		List A			Minor Counties Championship			MCCA Trophy
Recreation Ground	Torquay	5 July 1978 v Staffordshire	8 June 2014 v Cheshire	5	19 August 1932 v Surrey Second XI	10 July 2011 v Cheshire	68	12 June 1983 v Buckinghamshire	10 June 2004 v Suffolk	9	[1] [2] [3] [4] [n 1]
County Ground, Exeter	Exeter	only match: 2 July 1980 v Cornwall		1	8 August 1902 v Wiltshire	3 August 2014 v Shropshire	149	17 June 1984 v Oxfordshire	9 May 2010 v Wales Minor Counties	2	[5] [6] [7] [8] [n 2]
The Maer Ground	Exmouth	25 June 1986 v Nottinghamshire	3 May 2005 v Essex	16	3 August 1951 v Berkshire	17 August 2014 v Berkshire	54	2 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.

Name	Location	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	Refs
		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	Tavistock	13 July 1906 v Cornwall	23 July 1913 v Berkshire	4	–	–	0	[18] [19]
Cricketfield Road	Torquay	only match: 4 August 1909 v Carmarthenshire		1	–	–	0	[20] [21]
Fortfield Road	Sidmouth	13 July 1914 v Monmouthshire	6 July 2014 v Cheshire	39	3 July 1984 v Cornwall	13 July 2014 v Cheshire	7	[22] [23] [24]
The Newton Abbot and District Recreational Ground	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	Instow	18 August 1933 v Surrey Second XI	17 August 2008 v Shropshire	18	22 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	3	only match: 18 June 1989 v Dorset		1	[32] [33] [34]
Queen's Park	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	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	26 August 1980 v Cornwall	24 July 2007 v Wiltshire	27	2 June 1985 v Wiltshire	21 April 2013 v Oxfordshire	9	[47] [48] [49]
Ottermouth	Budleigh Salterton	26 May 1996 v Dorset	5 August 2007 v Cornwall	4	10 May 1998 v Dorset	18 May 2008 v Herefordshire	3	[50] [51] [52]
The War Memorial Playing Fields	Chagford	–	–	0	only 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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