List of Oxfordshire County Cricket Club grounds

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Oxfordshire County Cricket Club was established on 14 December 1921; prior to that a county club had existed before, with Oxfordshire competing in the first two Minor Counties Championship's in 1895 and 1896, and an Oxfordshire side also appeared in the competition from 1900 to 1906. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1922 and played List A cricket from 1967 to 2003, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1895 was against Worcestershire at Christ Church Ground, Oxford, while their first home List A match came 75 years later, also against Worcestershire, in the 1970 Gillette Cup at Morris Motors Sports Ground, Cowley.

Contents

The thirty grounds that Oxfordshire have used for home matches since 1895 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 Oxfordshire 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
Christ Church Ground
Christ Church Oxford Cricket Ground 2.jpg
Oxford 11 July 1981
v Glamorgan 		29 August 2001
v Nottinghamshire Cricket Board 		524 June 1895
v Worcestershire 		23 July 2000
v Devon 		7312 June 1982
v Dorset 		10 June 2001
v Surrey Cricket Board 		16 [1] [2] [3] [4] [n 1]
Morris Motors Sports Ground Cowley 25 April 1970
v Worcestershire 		25 June 1975
v Cornwall 		230 July 1954
v Buckinghamshire 		7 July 1991
v Berkshire 		32––0 [5] [6] [7]
Butt's Way
Cricket pitch at Kingston Blount (geograph 5788315).jpg
Kingston Blount 21 June 1984
v Somerset 		25 June 1996
v Lancashire 		219 July 1987
v Buckinghamshire 		9 August 1998
v Herefordshire 		528 June 1998
v Leicestershire Cricket Board 		6 May 2007
v Buckinghamshire 		4 [8] [9] [10] [11]
Vicarage Hill
Challow & Childrey cricket ground.jpg
East Challow only match:
1 May 2001
v Huntingdonshire 		 127 June 1993
v Wiltshire 		12 June 2011
v Wiltshire 		177 June 1998
v Nottinghamshire Cricket Board 		11 May 2014
v Buckinghamshire 		15 [12] [13] [14] [15]
White Post Road Bodicote 29 August 2002
v Lancashire Cricket Board 		31 August 2003
v Herefordshire 		229 June 1997
v Dorset 		22 June 2014
v Devon 		1716 June 2002
v Northamptonshire Cricket Board 		13 July 2008
v Berkshire 		3 [16] [17] [18] [19]

Minor Counties

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Oxfordshire County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. [n 2]

NameLocationFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesRefs
Minor Counties Championship MCCA Trophy
Oxford County School Ground Thame 17 July 1895
v Buckinghamshire 		5 August 1898
v Buckinghamshire		4––0 [20] [21]
Britannia Works Ground Banbury 2 August 1895
v Bedfordshire 		1 August 1898
v Berkshire 		4––0 [22] [23]
Hertford College Ground
Hertford College Sports Ground, Oxford (geograph 1936119).jpg
Oxford 26 August 1895
v Norfolk 		17 August 1904
v Suffolk 		13––0 [24] [25]
New College Ground
Sports ground off St Cross Road.jpg
Oxford 14 August 1896
v Wiltshire 		25 August 1939
v Bedfordshire 		13––0 [26] [27] [n 3]
Merton College Ground Oxford 16 August 1897
v Berkshire 		18 August 1937
v Bedfordshire 		20––0 [28] [29]
Burford Road
Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club (Geograph 6565380 by Bill Boaden).jpg
Shipton-under-Wychwood 26 July 1922
v Berkshire 		13 June 1999
v Shropshire 		9––0 [30] [31]
Blenheim
Cricket match in the grounds of Blenheim Palace.jpg
Blenheim only match:
4 August 1922
v Buckinghamshire 		 1––0 [32] [33] [n 4]
St John's College Ground Oxford 27 July 1923
v Cambridgeshire 		30 August 1961
v Berkshire 		8––0 [34] [35]
Trinity College Ground Oxford only match:
20 August 1923
v Buckinghamshire 		 1––0 [36] [37]
Northern Aluminium Company Ground Banbury 1 July 1930
v Monmouthshire 		10 August 1960
v Devon 		13––0 [38] [39]
Grange Road Banbury 23 August 1935
v Berkshire 		7 July 2013
v Shropshire 		8only match:
15 May 2011
v Bedfordshire 		 1 [40] [41] [42]
Lincoln College Ground Oxford 21 August 1936
v Berkshire 		3 August 1938
v Devon 		3––0 [43] [44]
St Edward's School Ground Oxford 6 August 1948
v Cornwall 		18 July 1993
v Dorset 		29––0 [45] [46]
Smith's Industries Ground Witney 25 August 1950
v Buckinghamshire 		25 August 1967
v Berkshire 		12––0 [47] [48]
Roman Way Sports Ground Oxford 8 August 1955
v Cornwall 		31 July 1968
v Wiltshire 		30––0 [49] [50]
Pressed Steel Fisher Sports Ground Cowley 10 August 1962
v Wiltshire 		3 August 1997
v Cheshire 		12only match:
4 June 1994
v Berkshire 		 1 [51] [52] [53]
The Brakspear Ground
Henley Cricket Club, Brakspear Ground.jpg
Remenham 6 August 1964
v Oxfordshire 		8 June 2014
v Cornwall 		1727 April 2008
v Herefordshire 		22 April 2012
v Wales Minor Counties 		6 [54] [55] [56]
Witney Mills Ground Witney 25 August 1969
v Berkshire 		16 August 1979
v Wiltshire 		11––0 [57] [58]
Abingdon War Memorial Field
Abingdon School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England-23April2011.jpg
Abingdon 2 August 1980
v Dorset 		10 August 1981
v Devon 		2––0 [59] [60]
Banbury Twenty Cricket Club Ground Banbury 13 August 1980
v Devon 		27 August 1995
v Berkshire 		11––0 [61] [62]
Church Meadow
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Thame across fields - geograph.org.uk - 84998.jpg
Thame 30 May 1995
v Shropshire 		28 July 2002
v Wiltshire 		811 June 1995
v Berkshire 		19 May 1999
v Huntingdonshire 		3 [63] [64] [65]
University Parks
The Parks.JPG
Oxford only match:
4 July 2000
v Cornwall 		 1––0 [66] [67] [n 5]
Bicester and North Oxford Cricket Club Ground
Cricket field at the Bicester Sports Association Ground.jpg
Chesterton 27 July 2003
v Dorset 		17 July 2005
v Berkshire 		36 May 2012
v Hertfordshire 		13 July 2014
v Wiltshire 		5 [68] [69] [70]
Radley College
The Cricket Pavilion, Radley College (geograph 1795310).jpg
Abingdon ––03 June 2007
v Wiltshire 		16 May 2010
v Herefordshire 		2 [71] [72]
Ledwell Road
Cricket Ground at Great Tew - geograph.org.uk - 46695.jpg
Great Tew 7 June 2009
v Dorset 		3 August 2014
v Berkshire 		7only match:
11 May 2008
v Cheshire 		 1 [73] [74] [75]

Notes

  1. ↑ Oxford University played 37 first-class matches here between 1878–1961. A combined Minor Counties cricket team played two List A matches here in the 1987 Benson & Hedges Cup. Only the List A matches played by Oxfordshire at the ground are recorded in the table. Cambridgeshire and Cheshire played the final of the 1987 MCCA Knockout Trophy here. Only the MCCA Knockout Trophy matches played by Oxfordshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
  2. ↑ Oxfordshire played 42 Minor Counties Championship matches in Oxford, for which the location upon which the matches were played is not recorded. The venue is given the conjectural name of Oxford.
  3. ↑ Oxford University played two first-class matches here in 1906 and 1907.
  4. ↑ The exact name and location of the ground used in Blenheim is not known.
  5. ↑ Oxford University have played first-class and List A matches.

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