Ground information | |||||
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Location | Kingston, Jamaica | ||||
Coordinates | 17°58′40″N76°46′57″W / 17.97778°N 76.78250°W | ||||
Establishment | 1895 | ||||
Capacity | 15,600 [1] | ||||
Tenants | Jamaica cricket team, Jamaica Tallawahs | ||||
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Blue Mountains End Headley Stand End | |||||
International information | |||||
First Test | 3–12 April 1930: West Indies v England | ||||
Last Test | 20–24 August 2021: West Indies v Pakistan | ||||
First ODI | 26 April 1984: West Indies v Australia | ||||
Last ODI | 16 January 2022: West Indies v Ireland | ||||
First T20I | 19 February 2014: West Indies v Ireland | ||||
Last T20I | 26 May 2024: West Indies v South Africa | ||||
Only women's Test | 14–16 May 1976: West Indies v Australia | ||||
First WODI | 6 October 2013: West Indies v New Zealand | ||||
Last WODI | 19 October 2016: West Indies v England | ||||
Team information | |||||
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As of 26 May 2024 Source: ESPNcricinfo |
Sabina Park is a cricket ground and the home of the Kingston Cricket Club, and is the only Test cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica.
Sabina Park was originally a Pen (urban residence and adjoining land of a wealthy merchant, shopkeeper or professional), [2] part of which was eventually sold to the Kingston Cricket Club for their grounds. The entire Estate was 30 acres. [3] The Great House at Sabina Park Pen was named Rosemount. [3]
Higman and Hudson state that the name is a "transfer name", i.e., a name copied from somewhere else, in this case "the region around Rome" of Magliano Sabina. [4]
Shalman Scott, writing in the Jamaica Observer, claims that: [5]
Sabina Park murdered her four-month-old child and in her deposition in the Half-Way-Tree court, admitted that she had killed her child- and proceeded to give her reason for doing so. Sabina's complaint, according to the Crown witness, was that “she had worked enough for 'Backra' (Master) already and that she would not be plagued to raise the child…to work for white people”.
[She] was found guilty of murder by the court and hanged. She was buried on the Liguanea Plain at a place that bore, in perpetuity, her name — Sabina Park.
Sabina Park, the slave, was owned by Joseph Gordon, father of National Hero George William Gordon. She was one of 17 slaves on Goat Island, a property also owned by Joseph Gordon, a Scottish planter who was given huge acreage of land in Jamaica after the restoration of the Monarchy in England, by King Charles II...
Known ownership of Sabina Park Pen includes: [6]
Dates | Owner | Notes |
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1809-1820 | Isabella Hall | Free woman of colour. Died c. 1822, partner of Robert Rainford senior (q.v.) with whom she had two sons, Robert and Samuel. Probably the daughter of Elizabeth Pinnock, "a free Negro woman" by Oliver Hall, born 05/02/1762 and baptised 16/06/1762 in Kingston, Jamaica. In her will she manumitted several enslaved people and divided her property between her nieces and her two sons, adding "All my wearing apparel to be equally divided among my slave relations." [7] |
1823-c1825 | Netlam Tory | A merchant in Liverpool, partner in Tory, Holt (q.v.) who apparently moved to Britain from Kingston Jamaica in the early 1830s. [8] |
1825-1830 | William Titley | Resident merchant of Kingston Jamaica, dying there in 1851. [9] |
1839-18?? | Robert Fairweather | Resident planting attorney and slave-owner. [10] |
18??-1??? | Ellen Agnes Hill née Blakely Albert Maurice Hill (spouse) | Ellen Hill was the vendor of the land sold to Kingston Cricket Club. [3] |
From 1880, Sabina Park was rented by Kingston Cricket Club from Mrs. Blakely, the then owner, for an annual fee of £27. This arrangement continued until 27 November 1890 when it was purchased for £750. [11]
Sabina Park became a Test cricket ground in 1930 when it hosted the visiting MCC team for the fourth and final Test in the West Indies' first home series.
The picturesque ground is perhaps one of the most significant in Test cricket history recording the first triple century in the game with England's Andy Sandham's 325 versus the West Indies in the 1930 game. The 365 not out by Sir Garfield Sobers which stood as a Test record for over 36 years is also regaled, as is Lawrence Rowe's world record on debut 214 (equalled by India's Yashasvi Jaiswal who made that same score not out against England) and 100 not out against the visiting New Zealand in 1972. [12]
Sabina Park was the venue for the abandoned test in 1998 involving the touring England team. The test was abandoned after less than an hour's play due to the pitch being deemed unfit for play. [13] [14]
Prior to Independence Park opening in 1962, it would also host the Jamaica national football team.
The members pavilion lies square of the wicket on the west side.
The Blue Mountains form a backdrop to the north, facing the George Headley Stand, with Kingston Harbour to the south. This view is currently blocked by the Northern Stand, built as part of the ground's redevelopment for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. [12]
The George Headley stand which dominates the south end is currently the only stand in the ground named after anyone, and has a capacity of just over 6,000. The Eastern Stands has given way to a "Party Stand" replacing the popular "Mound" stand. The general capacity of Jamaicans for excess is aptly demonstrated in the construction of the huge five-level concrete stand which hosts the outside broadcast facilities, players facilities as well as a fleet of upscale private boxes.
In terms of size, Sabina Park is still relatively small. It can fit a 400-metre running track comfortably on its perimeter, but little else, and with its refurbishing, the capacity has increased to 20,000.
With the commissioning of floodlights in August 2014, Sabina Park became the last of the international grounds in the Caribbean to have this facility. The ground is now capable of hosting day/night matches and this is especially useful for the Caribbean Premier League where the Jamaica Tallawahs play their home games. [15]
A mural featuring 19 famous Jamaican cricketers was constructed outside the ground in 2021. [16]
Hanover is a parish located on the northwestern tip of the island of Jamaica. It is a part of the county of Cornwall, bordered by St. James in the east and Westmoreland in the south. With the exception of Kingston, it is the smallest parish on the island. Hanover is the birth parish of Alexander Bustamante, labour leader, first head of government of Jamaica under universal suffrage, and one of seven Jamaican National Heroes. Its capital is Lucea.
Jerome Everton Taylor is a Jamaican cricketer who has played as a fast bowler for the West Indies. Taylor eventually picked up 100 wickets for the Windies in both tests and odis. During 2017 he reversed an initial decision to retire from international cricket. Taylor has also featured for Jamaica, English sides Somerset, Leicestershire and Sussex, CPL teams St Lucia Zouks and Jamaica Tallawahs and IPL sides Pune Warriors and Mumbai Indians in his cricketing career. Taylor was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 World Cup. He is the only bowler to have ever taken a hat-trick in a Champions Trophy match, which he did in the 2006 tournament against Australia, and that was the first hat-trick taken by a West Indian bowler in the ODI format.
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The franchise Jamaica Tallawahs was the representative team of Jamaica in the Caribbean Premier League of cricket. It was one of the six teams created in 2013 for the inaugural season of the tournament. In December 2023, it was announced that the team would not participate in CPL 2024 due to a lack of support from the Jamaican government. Instead, Antigua & Barbuda Falcons from Antigua would take its place, ending Jamaica's run in the CPL. The Jamaica Tallawahs played their home games at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Edward McGeachy was the Crown Surveyor for the county of Surrey in Jamaica. He trained Thomas Harrison, the first Government Surveyor of Jamaica. He owned Bull Park plantation and Brighton Pen in Saint David Parish and in 1837 received compensation for the loss of eight slaves following the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833.
William Atherton, was a merchant and wealthy landowner from Lancashire, England, who operated and co-owned sugar plantations in the former Colony of Jamaica. He was a slave owner, as well as an importer of slaves from Africa.
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