List of Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club grounds

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Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club was established in 1988, with it joining the Minor Counties Championship in the same year as a replacement for the Somerset Second XI who had withdrawn from the Minor Counties Championship at the end of the previous season. The club has played minor counties cricket since, and played List A cricket from 1993 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1988 was against Shropshire at the Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground, Welshpool, while their first home List A match came six years later against Middlesex in the 1994 NatWest Trophy at Smithy Lane, Northop Hall.

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The 23 grounds that Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club have used for home matches since 1988 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.

Grounds

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Panteg House Ground
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Marchwiel Hall Cricket Ground
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Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground
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Lower Mill Street
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Croft-y-Genau Road
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Marespool
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Tanyfron Sports Complex
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Spytty Park
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Recreation Ground, Penarth
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Ammanford Park
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Locations of grounds used by Wales Minor Counties

List A

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Wales Minor Counties 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
Smithy Lane
Northop Hall Cricket Ground - geograph.org.uk - 203583.jpg
Northop Hall only match:
21 June 1994
v Middlesex 		 1only match:
18 August 1993
v Oxfordshire 		 117 May 1992
v Staffordshire 		11 June 1995
v Cumberland 		2 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Penrhyn Avenue
Penrhyn Avenue Pavilion.jpg
Colwyn Bay only match:
24 June 1998
v Nottinghamshire 		 112 June 1988
v Shropshire 		5 June 2005
v Shropshire		14––0 [5] [6] [7] [n 1]
St Helen's
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Swansea 23 June 1999
v Somerset 		4 May 2005
v Nottinghamshire 		421 August 1989
v Devon 		26 May 2008
v Dorset 		1720 May 1990
v Oxfordshire 		4 April 2004
v Berkshire 		2 [8] [9] [10] [11] [n 2]
Pontarddulais Park Pontarddulais only match:
2 May 2000
v Buckinghamshire 		 130 August 1992
v Devon 		8 June 2014
v Shropshire 		1820 May 2001
v Herefordshire 		2 May 2010
v Wiltshire 		5 [12] [13] [14] [15]
Sophia Gardens
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Cardiff 16 May 2000
v Buckinghamshire 		29 May 2002
v Durham 		22 August 1988
v Cheshire 		8 July 2001
v Devon 		2––0 [16] [17] [18] [n 3]
Burnham Avenue
Sully Cricket Club - geograph.org.uk - 975226.jpg
Sully only match:
12 September 2002
v Cornwall 		 1––0––0 [19] [20]
Pen-y-Pound Abergavenny only match:
28 August 2003
v Denmark 		 129 July 2001
v Herefordshire 		3 August 2014
v Dorset 		139 May 1999
v Herefordshire 		1 May 2011
v Cornwall 		6 [21] [22] [23] [24] [n 4]
Lamphey Cricket Club Ground Lamphey only match:
5 May 2004
v Middlesex 		 1only match:
30 June 2002
v Berkshire 		 1––0 [25] [26] [27]

Minor Counties

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

NameLocationFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesRefs
Minor Counties Championship MCCA Trophy
Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground
Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground - geograph.org.uk - 251280.jpg
Welshpool ––0only match:
22 May 1988
v Shropshire 		 1 [28] [29]
Lower Mill Street
Usk cricket ground - geograph.org.uk - 4359649.jpg
Usk 9 August 1988
v Wiltshire 		22 June 2014
v Berkshire 		106 June 1993
v Shropshire 		20 May 2014
v Devon 		3 [30] [31] [32] [n 5]
Eugene Cross Park
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Ebbw Vale 16 August 1988
v Dorset 		20 August 1992
v August		5only match:
15 May 2011
v Devon 		 1 [33] [34] [35] [n 6]
Ammanford Park
Ammanford Park - geograph.org.uk - 20598.jpg
Ammanford only match:
6 June 1989
v Buckinghamshire 		 1only match:
17 May 1998
v Warwickshire Cricket Board 		 1 [36] [37] [38]
Recreation Ground Penarth 24 July 1990
v Cheshire 		11 August 1996
v Dorset 		3only match:
7 July 2002
v Gloucestershire Cricket Board 		 1 [39] [40] [41]
Stradey Park Llanelli only match:
26 May 1991
v Oxfordshire 		 1––0 [42] [43] [n 7]
Hoover's Sports Ground Merthyr Tydfil only match:
30 May 1993
v Herefordshire 		 1––0 [44] [45] [n 8]
Marchwiel Hall Cricket Ground
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Marchwiel 17 July 1994
v Cornwall 		18 June 1995
v Wiltshire 		2––0 [46] [47] [n 9]
Panteg House
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Griffithstown ––0only match:
9 June 1996
v Cornwall 		 1 [48] [49] [n 10]
Spytty Park Newport only match:
1 August 1999
v Herefordshire 		 17 June 1998
v Wiltshire 		27 April 1914
v Cornwall 		2 [50] [51] [52]
Main Road Aberdulais only match:
6 August 2000
v Dorset 		 130 May 1999
v Worcestershire Cricket Board 		25 June 2000
v Worcestershire Cricket Board		2 [53] [54] [55]
Croft-y-Genau Road St Fagans only match:
22 August 1999
v Berkshire 		 19 July 2000
v Shropshire 		27 April 2008
v Dorset 		2 [56] [57] [58]
Marespool Mumbles ––04 June 2006
v Berkshire 		2 June 2013
v Berkshire		3 [59] [60]
Sports Complex Tanyfron ––0only match:
6 May 2012
v Buckinghamshire 		 1 [61] [62] [n 11]
Cresselly Cricket Club Ground Cresselly ––0only match:
5 May 2013
v Staffordshire 		 1 [63] [64] [n 12]

Notes

  1. ↑ Glamorgan and Wales have played first-class cricket matches here. Glamorgan and the Unicorns have also played List A matches here. Only the List A match played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table. Denbighshire played Minor Counties Championship matches here between 1930–1935.
  2. ↑ Glamorgan have played first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches here. Only the List A matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table. Prior to becoming a first-class county in 1921, Glamorgan played Minor Counties Championship matches here. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  3. ↑ Home ground of Glamorgan for first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. Only the List A matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  4. ↑ Glamorgan have played first-class and List A matches here. Only the List A match played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground is recorded in the table. Monmouthshire and the Glamorgan Second XI have previously Minor Counties Championship matches here. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  5. ↑ The Glamorgan Second XI played one Minor Counties Championship match here in 1949. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  6. ↑ Glamorgan have played first-class and List A matches at the ground. Both Monmouthshire and the Glamorgan Second XI have played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  7. ↑ Glamorgan have played first-class and List A cricket at the ground. Carmarthenshire previously played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground. Only the Minor Counties Championship match played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  8. ↑ Glamorgan have played two List A matches at the ground in the 1988 and 1989 Refuge Assurance League.
  9. ↑ Denbighshire previously played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground. Only the Minor Counties Championship match played by Wales Minor Counties at the ground are recorded in the table.
  10. ↑ Monmouthshire played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground between 1924–1932.
  11. ↑ Denbighshire played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground in 1930 and 1935.
  12. ↑ Glamorgan played a List A match here against Surrey in the 2007 Friends Provident Trophy.

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