List of Suffolk County Cricket Club grounds

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Suffolk County Cricket Club was originally established on 27 July 1864, and competed in the Minor Counties Championship from 1904 to 1914, though without success. The present club was founded in August 1932, and has since played minor counties cricket from that year, as well as playing in List A cricket from 1966 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1904 was against Norfolk at the Town Ground, Felixstowe, while their first home List A match came 62 years later against Kent in the 1966 Gillette Cup at Ipswich School Ground.

Contents

The fourteen grounds that Suffolk have used for home matches since 1904 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 Suffolk 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
The Victory Ground Bury St Edmunds 11 July 1981
v Derbyshire
4 May 2005
v Glamorgan
1022 July 1935
v Surrey Second XI
22 June 2014
v Cumberland
5614 June 1987
v Norfolk
15 June 2014
v Devon
7 [1] [2] [3] [4] [n 1]
Ipswich School Ground
Ipswich School library - geograph.org.uk - 1294470.jpg
Ipswich only match:
30 April 1966
v Kent
 17 August 1935
v Hertfordshire
6 July 2014
v Buckinghamshire
376 May 2007
v Staffordshire
27 April 2014
v Hertfordshire
4 [5] [6] [7] [8]
Wamil Way
Behind the sightscreen - geograph.org.uk - 922545.jpg
Mildenhall 2 May 2000
v Lancashire Cricket Board
27 June 2001
v Nottinghamshire
317 August 1977
v Norfolk
26 June 2011
v Cumberland
311 June 2008
v Staffordshire
31 May 2009
v Northumberland
2 [9] [10] [11] [12]
Old London Road
Copdock & Old Ipswichian CC 228.jpg
Copdock only match:
29 August 2001
v Denmark
 130 August 1992
v Norfolk
17 August 2014
v Hertfordshire
79 June 1996
v Cambridgeshire
16 May 2006
v Norfolk
8 [13] [14] [15] [16]

Minor Counties

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Suffolk County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.

NameLocationFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesRefs
Minor Counties Championship MCCA Trophy
Town Ground Felixstowe 20 July 1904
v Norfolk
26 July 1983
v Hertfordshire
1010 [17] [18]
Cemetry Road Bury St Edmunds 28 July 1904
v Cambridgeshire
19 August 1914
v Lincolnshire
80 [19] [20] [n 2]
Portman Road Ipswich 5 July 1905
v Norfolk
3 August 1914
v Cambridgeshire
140 [21] [22]
Woodbridge School Woodbridge 29 July 1908
v Bedfordshire
21 June 1909
v Norfolk
220 May 2001
v Essex Cricket Board
10 May 2009
v Hertfordshire
6 [23] [24] [25]
Denes Oval Lowestoft 4 July 1934
v Lincolnshire
18 August 1971
v Norfolk
310 [26] [27]
Churchman's Ground Ipswich 29 July 1949
v Hertfordshire
24 August 1951
v Middlesex Second XI
30 [28] [29]
Ransomes and Reavell Sports Club Ground Ipswich 2 August 1972
v Hertfordshire
7 June 2009
v Bedfordshire
4812 June 1983
v Cambridgeshire
23 May 2010
v Berkshire
2 [30] [31] [32] [n 3]
Manor Road Haverhill only match:
25 August 1974
v Lincolnshire
 10 [33] [34]
Guardian Royal Exchange Ground Ipswich 3 August 1979
v Buckinghamshire
23 July 1985
v Hertfordshire
80 [35] [36]
Chilton Fields Stowmarket only match:
1 June 1993
v Hertfordshire
 10 [37] [38]
Exning Park Exning 017 May 1998
v Northamptonshire Cricket Board
26 May 2002
v Cambridgeshire
5 [39] [40]

Notes

  1. The Unicorns cricket team played a single List A cricket match here against Essex in the 2011 Clydesdale Bank 40 Only the List A matches played at the ground by Suffolk are recorded in the table.
  2. An informal Suffolk team played two first-class matches here against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1830 and 1847.
  3. Minor Counties East played a single List A match here against Middlesex in the 1978 Benson & Hedges Cup.

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