Oxfordshire County Cricket Club was established on 14 December 1921; prior to that a county club had existed before, with Oxfordshire competing in the first two Minor Counties Championship's in 1895 and 1896, and an Oxfordshire side also appeared in the competition from 1900 to 1906. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1922 and played List A cricket from 1967 to 2003, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1895 was against Worcestershire at Christ Church Ground, Oxford, while their first home List A match came 75 years later, also against Worcestershire, in the 1970 Gillette Cup at Morris Motors Sports Ground, Cowley.
The thirty grounds that Oxfordshire have used for home matches since 1895 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.
Below is a complete list of grounds used by Oxfordshire 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.
Below is a complete list of grounds used by Oxfordshire County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. [n 2]
Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | Refs |
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Minor Counties Championship | MCCA Trophy | |||||||
Oxford County School Ground | Thame | 17 July 1895 v Buckinghamshire | 5 August 1898 v Buckinghamshire | 4 | – | – | 0 | [20] [21] |
Britannia Works Ground | Banbury | 2 August 1895 v Bedfordshire | 1 August 1898 v Berkshire | 4 | – | – | 0 | [22] [23] |
Hertford College Ground![]() | Oxford | 26 August 1895 v Norfolk | 17 August 1904 v Suffolk | 13 | – | – | 0 | [24] [25] |
New College Ground ![]() | Oxford | 14 August 1896 v Wiltshire | 25 August 1939 v Bedfordshire | 13 | – | – | 0 | [26] [27] [n 3] |
Merton College Ground | Oxford | 16 August 1897 v Berkshire | 18 August 1937 v Bedfordshire | 20 | – | – | 0 | [28] [29] |
Burford Road![]() | Shipton-under-Wychwood | 26 July 1922 v Berkshire | 13 June 1999 v Shropshire | 9 | – | – | 0 | [30] [31] |
Blenheim![]() | Blenheim | only match: 4 August 1922 v Buckinghamshire | 1 | – | – | 0 | [32] [33] [n 4] | |
St John's College Ground | Oxford | 27 July 1923 v Cambridgeshire | 30 August 1961 v Berkshire | 8 | – | – | 0 | [34] [35] |
Trinity College Ground | Oxford | only match: 20 August 1923 v Buckinghamshire | 1 | – | – | 0 | [36] [37] | |
Northern Aluminium Company Ground | Banbury | 1 July 1930 v Monmouthshire | 10 August 1960 v Devon | 13 | – | – | 0 | [38] [39] |
Grange Road | Banbury | 23 August 1935 v Berkshire | 7 July 2013 v Shropshire | 8 | only match: 15 May 2011 v Bedfordshire | 1 | [40] [41] [42] | |
Lincoln College Ground | Oxford | 21 August 1936 v Berkshire | 3 August 1938 v Devon | 3 | – | – | 0 | [43] [44] |
St Edward's School Ground | Oxford | 6 August 1948 v Cornwall | 18 July 1993 v Dorset | 29 | – | – | 0 | [45] [46] |
Smith's Industries Ground | Witney | 25 August 1950 v Buckinghamshire | 25 August 1967 v Berkshire | 12 | – | – | 0 | [47] [48] |
Roman Way Sports Ground | Oxford | 8 August 1955 v Cornwall | 31 July 1968 v Wiltshire | 30 | – | – | 0 | [49] [50] |
Pressed Steel Fisher Sports Ground | Cowley | 10 August 1962 v Wiltshire | 3 August 1997 v Cheshire | 12 | only match: 4 June 1994 v Berkshire | 1 | [51] [52] [53] | |
The Brakspear Ground![]() | Remenham | 6 August 1964 v Oxfordshire | 8 June 2014 v Cornwall | 17 | 27 April 2008 v Herefordshire | 22 April 2012 v Wales Minor Counties | 6 | [54] [55] [56] |
Witney Mills Ground | Witney | 25 August 1969 v Berkshire | 16 August 1979 v Wiltshire | 11 | – | – | 0 | [57] [58] |
Abingdon War Memorial Field![]() | Abingdon | 2 August 1980 v Dorset | 10 August 1981 v Devon | 2 | – | – | 0 | [59] [60] |
Banbury Twenty Cricket Club Ground | Banbury | 13 August 1980 v Devon | 27 August 1995 v Berkshire | 11 | – | – | 0 | [61] [62] |
Church Meadow![]() | Thame | 30 May 1995 v Shropshire | 28 July 2002 v Wiltshire | 8 | 11 June 1995 v Berkshire | 19 May 1999 v Huntingdonshire | 3 | [63] [64] [65] |
University Parks | Oxford | only match: 4 July 2000 v Cornwall | 1 | – | – | 0 | [66] [67] [n 5] | |
Bicester and North Oxford Cricket Club Ground![]() | Chesterton | 27 July 2003 v Dorset | 17 July 2005 v Berkshire | 3 | 6 May 2012 v Hertfordshire | 13 July 2014 v Wiltshire | 5 | [68] [69] [70] |
Radley College ![]() | Abingdon | – | – | 0 | 3 June 2007 v Wiltshire | 16 May 2010 v Herefordshire | 2 | [71] [72] |
Ledwell Road![]() | Great Tew | 7 June 2009 v Dorset | 3 August 2014 v Berkshire | 7 | only match: 11 May 2008 v Cheshire | 1 | [73] [74] [75] |
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