Wheal Eliza

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Wheal Eliza
Ground information
Location St Austell, Cornwall
Coordinates 50°20′37″N4°45′13″W / 50.3436°N 4.7535°W / 50.3436; -4.7535
Establishment1973
End names
Jewson End
Britannia End
Team information
Cornwall (1982–present)
As of 10 June 2010
Source: Ground profile

Wheal Eliza is a cricket ground in Holmbush, to the east of St Austell, Cornwall. The ground is bordered to the south by Holmbush Road, to the east by the A391 road and to the north and west by housing. The end names of the ground are the Jewson End and the Britannia End. Facilities include two playing fields with their own changing room facilities enabling two competitive matches to be played every match day. The ground also has a pavilion, scorebox, artificial and grass nets.

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History

Ruin of a 19th-century iron mine on the land Wheal Eliza - geograph.org.uk - 526940.jpg
Ruin of a 19th-century iron mine on the land

Established in 1973, the land surrounding the site of the ground had previously been used for mining. Cornwall first played there against Dorset in the 1982 Minor Counties Championship. [1] A single Minor Counties Championship match was played annually there throughout the remainder of that decade and into the 1990s. [1] The ground held its first MCCA Knockout Trophy match in 1994 when Cornwall played Devon, [2] while the following season it held its first List A match when Cornwall played Middlesex in the 1995 NatWest Trophy, while the following season it held a second match in that format when Cornwall played Warwickshire. [3] Cornwall lost both matches against their first-class opponents. No Minor Counties Championship match was played there in 1999, which was the first time no match had been played there since 1982. Minor Counties Championship cricket returned there in 2000, with Cornwall playing annually there until 2006. [1] Cornwall returned to the ground in 2009 to play an MCCA Knockout Trophy fixture against Wiltshire, with them having since played a further two matches in that competition at the ground. [2] Minor Counties Championship cricket returned there in 2010, with the resumption of an annual fixture. [1]

The ground is the home venue St Austell Cricket Club who play in the Cornwall Cricket League. [4]

Records

List A

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Minor Counties Championship Matches played on Wheal Eliza, Bethel, St Austell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Minor Counties Trophy Matches played on Wheal Eliza, Bethel, St Austell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "List A Matches played on Wheal Eliza, Bethel, St Austell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "St Austell Cricket Club". www.staustell.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Wheal Eliza, Bethel, St Austell - Highest Team Totals in List A matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Cornwall v Warwickshire, 1996 NatWest Trophy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  7. ↑ "Wheal Eliza, Bethel, St Austell - Centuries in List A matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2013.

50°20′37″N4°45′13″W / 50.3436°N 4.7535°W / 50.3436; -4.7535

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