Shropshire County Cricket Club was established on 28 June 1956. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1957 and played List A cricket from 1974 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1957 was against Staffordshire at The Grove Ground, Market Drayton, while their first List A match came 17 years later against Essex in the 1974 Gillette Cup at Orleton Park, Wellington.
The sixteen grounds that Shropshire have used for home matches since 1955 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.
Below is a complete list of grounds used by Shropshire 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 Shropshire County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.
Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | Refs |
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Minor Counties Championship | MCCA Trophy | |||||||
Grove Ground | Market Drayton | 29 May 1957 v Staffordshire | 21 August 1976 v Dorset | 14 | – | – | 0 | [26] [27] |
Audley Avenue | Newport | 11 July 1957 v Warwickshire Second XI | 5 July 1998 v Wales Minor Counties | 14 | 3 June 1984 v Berkshire | 17 June 1984 v Northumberland | 2 | [28] [29] [30] |
High Town | Bridgnorth | 30 July 1958 v Drbyshire Second XI | 16 July 2014 v Oxfordshire | 49 | 19 May 1985 v Oxfordshire | 20 May 1990 v Staffordshire | 3 | [31] [32] [33] [34] |
Perkins Cricket Club Ground | Shrewsbury | 24 August 1959 v Nottinghamshire Second XI | 5 July 1965 v Somerset Second XI | 7 | 5 June 1988 v Cheshire | 17 May 1992 v Herefordshire | 4 | [35] [36] [37] |
Ellesmere College Ground | Ellesmere | 14 June 1967 v Lincolnshire | 12 June 1994 v Wiltshire | 4 | – | – | 0 | [38] [39] |
The Avenue | Uppington | 2 June 1971 v Cambridgeshire | 3 June 1975 v Somerset Second XI | 3 | only match: 8 June 2003 v Cumberland | 1 | [40] [41] [42] | |
The Burway | Ludlow | 27 August 1973 v Devon | 19 August 1979 v Somerset Second XI | 6 | – | – | 0 | [43] [44] |
Sir John Moore Barracks Ground | Shrewsbury | only match: 21 August 1974 v Staffordshire | 1 | – | – | 0 | [45] [46] | |
Wrekin College Ground | Wellington | – | – | 0 | only match: 24 May 1998 v Cheshire | 1 | [47] [48] | |
The Kynaston Ground | Wem | – | – | 0 | 3 June 2001 v Wales Minor Counties | 17 May 2009 v Cheshire | 3 | [49] [50] |
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