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with it joining the Minor Counties Championship in the same year as a replacement for the Somerset Second XI who had withdrawn from the Minor Counties Championship at the end of the previous season.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.
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 edit
Map edit
Panteg House Ground
Marchwiel Hall Cricket Ground
Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground
Lower Mill Street
Croft-y-Genau Road
Marespool
Tanyfron Sports Complex
Spytty Park
Recreation Ground, Penarth
Ammanford Park
Locations of grounds used by Wales Minor Counties
List A edit
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.
| Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List A | Minor Counties Championship | MCCA Trophy | |||||||||
Smithy Lane |
Northop Hall | only match: 21 June 1994 v Middlesex |
1 | only match: 18 August 1993 v Oxfordshire |
1 | 17 May 1992 v Staffordshire |
11 June 1995 v Cumberland |
2 | [1][2][3][4] | ||
Penrhyn Avenue |
Colwyn Bay | only match: 24 June 1998 v Nottinghamshire |
1 | 12 June 1988 v Shropshire |
5 June 2005 v Shropshire |
14 | – | – | 0 | [5][6][7][n 1] | |
St Helen's |
Swansea | 23 June 1999 v Somerset |
4 May 2005 v Nottinghamshire |
4 | 21 August 1989 v Devon |
26 May 2008 v Dorset |
17 | 20 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 |
1 | 30 August 1992 v Devon |
8 June 2014 v Shropshire |
18 | 20 May 2001 v Herefordshire |
2 May 2010 v Wiltshire |
5 | [12][13][14][15] | |
Sophia Gardens |
Cardiff | 16 May 2000 v Buckinghamshire |
29 May 2002 v Durham |
2 | 2 August 1988 v Cheshire |
8 July 2001 v Devon |
2 | – | – | 0 | [16][17][18][n 3] |
Burnham Avenue |
Sully | only match: 12 September 2002 v Cornwall |
1 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | [19][20] | |
| Pen-y-Pound | Abergavenny | only match: 28 August 2003 v Denmark |
1 | 29 July 2001 v Herefordshire |
3 August 2014 v Dorset |
13 | 9 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 |
1 | only match: 30 June 2002 v Berkshire |
1 | – | – | 0 | [25][26][27] | ||
Minor Counties edit
Below is a complete list of grounds used by Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.
| Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minor Counties Championship | MCCA Trophy | |||||||
Maes-y-Dre Recreation Ground |
Welshpool | – | – | 0 | only match: 22 May 1988 v Shropshire |
1 | [28][29] | |
Lower Mill Street |
Usk | 9 August 1988 v Wiltshire |
22 June 2014 v Berkshire |
10 | 6 June 1993 v Shropshire |
20 May 2014 v Devon |
3 | [30][31][32][n 5] |
Eugene Cross Park |
Ebbw Vale | 16 August 1988 v Dorset |
20 August 1992 v August |
5 | only match: 15 May 2011 v Devon |
1 | [33][34][35][n 6] | |
Ammanford Park |
Ammanford | only match: 6 June 1989 v Buckinghamshire |
1 | only 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 |
3 | only 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 |
Marchwiel | 17 July 1994 v Cornwall |
18 June 1995 v Wiltshire |
2 | – | – | 0 | [46][47][n 9] |
Panteg House.jpg) |
Griffithstown | – | – | 0 | only match: 9 June 1996 v Cornwall |
1 | [48][49][n 10] | |
| Spytty Park | Newport | only match: 1 August 1999 v Herefordshire |
1 | 7 June 1998 v Wiltshire |
27 April 1914 v Cornwall |
2 | [50][51][52] | |
| Main Road | Aberdulais | only match: 6 August 2000 v Dorset |
1 | 30 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 |
1 | 9 July 2000 v Shropshire |
27 April 2008 v Dorset |
2 | [56][57][58] | |
| Marespool | Mumbles | – | – | 0 | 4 June 2006 v Berkshire |
2 June 2013 v Berkshire |
3 | [59][60] |
| Sports Complex | Tanyfron | – | – | 0 | only match: 6 May 2012 v Buckinghamshire |
1 | [61][62][n 11] | |
| Cresselly Cricket Club Ground | Cresselly | – | – | 0 | only match: 5 May 2013 v Staffordshire |
1 | [63][64][n 12] | |
Notes edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Glamorgan have played two List A matches at the ground in the 1988 and 1989 Refuge Assurance League.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Monmouthshire played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground between 1924–1932.
- ^ Denbighshire played Minor Counties Championship matches at the ground in 1930 and 1935.
- ^ Glamorgan played a List A match here against Surrey in the 2007 Friends Provident Trophy.
References edit
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- ^ "Marespool, Mumbles". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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