List of Northamptonshire County Cricket Club grounds

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Northamptonshire County Cricket Club was established on 31 July 1878. The county entered the Minor Counties Championship in 1895 and competed in the competition until 1904, after which it was elevated to first-class status for the 1905 season. It has since played first-class cricket from 1905, List A cricket from 1963 and Twenty20 cricket from 2003, using a different number of home grounds during that time. The County Ground in Northampton has played host to the club's first home fixtures in all three formats of the game; in first-class cricket in 1905 against Leicestershire; in List A cricket in 1963 against Warwickshire; and in Twenty20 cricket against Somerset in 2003. Northamptonshire have played home matches at sixteen grounds, but have played the majority of their home fixtures at the County Ground, which has also held One Day Internationals.

Contents

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

Grounds

Minor county

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Northamptonshire County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship matches before its elevation to first-class status in 1905.

NameLocationFirstLastMatchesRefs
Minor Counties Championship
County Ground
Northants 780.JPG
Northampton 7 August 1895
v Staffordshire 		22 August 1904
v Durham 		49 [1] [2]

First-class county

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Northamptonshire County Cricket Club in first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches following its elevation to first-class status in 1905.

NameLocationFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesRefs
First-class List A Twenty20
County Ground
Northants 780.JPG
Northampton 5 June 1905
v Leicestershire 		23 September 2014
v Sussex 		1,01922 May 1963
v Warwickshire 		21 August 2014
v Essex 		37620 June 2003
v Somerset 		23 July 2014
v Nottinghamshire 		55 [1] [3] [4] [5] [n 1]
Town Ground Peterborough 7 June 1906
v Warwickshire 		18 June 1966
v Essex 		46––0––0 [6] [7]
Town Ground Kettering 7 July 1923
v Glamorgan 		21 August 1971
v Surrey 		6521 June 1970
v Sussex 		10 June 1973
v Glamorgan 		4––0 [8] [9] [10]
Town Ground Rushden 28 June 1924
v Dublin University 		18 May 1963
v Lancashire 		22––0––0 [11] [12]
Ideal Clothiers Ground Wellingborough only match:
22 June 1929
v Oxford University 		 1––0––0 [13] [14]
Wellingborough School Ground Wellingborough 10 August 1946
v Hampshire 		19 July 1991
v Nottinghamshire 		439 August 1970
v Worcestershire 		21 July 1991
v Nottinghamshire 		17––0 [15] [16] [17]
Baker Perkins Sports Ground Peterborough 24 June 1967
v Kent 		14 June 1969
v Warwickshire 		315 June 1969
v Lancashire 		23 June 1974
v Warwickshire 		5––0 [18] [19] [20]
Westminster Road Brackley ––018 July 1971
v Gloucestershire 		7 September 1975
v Nottinghamshire 		4––0 [21] [22]
Bedford School Ground Bedford ––01 August 1971
v Essex 		23 May 1982
v Lancashire		2––0 [23] [24] [n 2]
Wardown Park
Luton, Wardown Park cricket ground - geograph.org.uk - 191439.jpg
Luton 21 June 1986
v Yorkshire 		26 June 1997
v Gloucestershire 		1124 June 1973
v Nottinghamshire 		21 May 1996
v Indians 		24only match:
5 July 2004
v Worcestershire 		 1 [25] [26] [27] [28] [n 3]
London Road Tring ––09 June 1974
v Middlesex 		7 July 1991
v Surrey 		16––0 [29] [30] [n 4]
Denton Road Horton ––024 May 1976
v Essex 		7 May 1977
v Minor Counties East 		2––0 [31] [32]
Manor Fields
Bletchley Rugby and Cricket Club House - geograph.org.uk - 209843.jpg
Bletchley 17 May 1980
v West Indians 		13 June 1987
v Pakistanis 		322 August 1976
v Lancashire 		28 August 1983
v Middlesex 		7––0 [33] [34] [35] [n 5]
Dolben Cricket Ground
Finedon Cricket Club - geograph.org.uk - 614746.jpg
Finedon ––013 July 1986
v Derbyshire 		23 July 1989
v Nottinghamshire 		3––0 [36] [37]
Campbell Park
Springtime in Campbell Park - geograph.org.uk - 368817.jpg
Milton Keynes ––08 June 1997
v Nottinghamshire 		29 July 2014
v Worcestershire 		322 June 2005
v Gloucestershire 		29 June 2011
v Worcestershire 		4 [38] [39] [40] [n 6]
Stowe School Ground
Cricket pitch and Pavilion, Stowe School - geograph.org.uk - 528059.jpg
Stowe ––0only match:
19 June 2005
v Gloucestershire 		 1––0 [41] [42] [n 7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Only the first-class and List A matches played by Northamptonshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
  2. ↑ Bedford School Ground is located in the adjacent county of Bedfordshire.
  3. ↑ Wardown Park is located in the adjacent county of Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire played List A matches here between 1967–2005, while a combined Minor Counties cricket team played one List A match here as the home team against Northamptonshire in the 1998 Benson & Hedges Cup. Only the List A matches played at the ground by Northamptonshire in which they were the home team are recorded in the table.
  4. ↑ London Road is located two counties to the south of Northamptonshire in Hertfordshire.
  5. ↑ Manor Fields is located in the adjacent county of Buckinghamshire.
  6. ↑ Campbell Park is located in the adjacent county of Buckinghamshire. A First-Class Counties Select XI played one first-class match here against New Zealand A in 2000. The touring New Zealanders and Sri Lanka A played a List A match here in 1999. Only the List A matches played at the ground by Northamptonshire are recorded in the table.
  7. ↑ Stowe School Ground is located in the adjacent county of Buckinghamshire.

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  2. ↑ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played on County Ground, Northampton (49)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "First-Class Matches played on County Ground, Northampton (1,019)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "List A Matches played on County Ground, Northampton (376)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Twenty20 Matches played on County Ground, Northampton (55)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
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  35. ↑ "List A Matches played on Manor Fields, Bletchley (7)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
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  37. ↑ "List A Matches played on Dolben Cricket Ground, Finedon (3)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
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  41. ↑ "Stowe School Ground, Stowe". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  42. ↑ "List A Matches played on Stowe School Ground, Stowe (1)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
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