Smallbone Park

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Smallbone Park
Ground information
Location Rotorua, New Zealand
Establishment1921 (first recorded match)
Team information
Northern Districts (19692003)
As of 3 November 2011
Source: Ground profile

Smallbone Park is a cricket ground in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1921 when Rotorua played the touring Australians. [1]

The ground later held its first first-class match during the 1968/69 Plunket Shield when Northern Districts played Otago. Between the 1968/69 and 1995/96 season's, seventeen first-class matches were held there, the last of which saw Northern Districts play Central Districts in the 1995/96 Shell Trophy. [2] The first List A match held there came when Northern Districts played Auckland in the 1984/85 Shell Cup. Northern Districts played six further List A matches at the ground, the last of which came in the 2002/03 State Shield against Otago. [3]

A single Women's One Day International was played there on 25 February 1995, when Australia Women played India Women in the New Zealand Women's Centenary Tournament. [4]

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References

  1. "Other matches played on Smallbone Park, Rotorua". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  2. "First-Class Matches played on Smallbone Park, Rotorua". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  3. "List A Matches played on Smallbone Park, Rotorua". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  4. "Women's One-Day International Matches played on Smallbone Park, Rotorua". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 November 2011.

Coordinates: 38°09′15.66″S176°13′53.85″E / 38.1543500°S 176.2316250°E / -38.1543500; 176.2316250