List of Hampshire County Cricket Club grounds

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Hampshire County Cricket Club was established in August 1863.[1] Since then, the club has played first-class and List A cricket at a number of different home grounds. Their first home first-class match was against Sussex in 1864 at the Antelope Ground, Southampton. The current headquarters of Hampshire County Cricket Club is the Rose Bowl, which located on the edge of Southampton.[1] This venue is also used by England as a Test and One Day International venue.

As of 12 September 2011, Hampshire have played 1,396 first-class matches and 925 List A matches at 12 different home grounds. They have also played 45 Twenty20 matches, all of which have taken place at the Rose Bowl. The 12 grounds that Hampshire have used for home matches are listed below, with statistics complete through the end of the 2011 season.

Grounds

Name Location First Last Matches First Last Matches Refs
First-class List A
Antelope Ground
Antelope Ground 01.gif
Southampton 7 July 1864
v Sussex
7 August 1884
v Somerset
27 0 [2][3]
Green Jackets Ground
Winchester only match:
1 July 1875
v Sussex
  1 0 [4][5]
Winchester College Ground
Winchester only match:
19 August 1875
v Kent
  1 0 [6][7]
United Services Recreation Ground
Main stand at US Portsmouth Sports Ground. - geograph.org.uk - 698709.jpg
Portsmouth 28 August 1882
v Sussex
19 July 2000
v Kent
316 22 May 1965
v Kent
23 July 2000
v Middlesex
54 [8][9][10]
County Ground Southampton 15 June 1885
v Marylebone Cricket Club
13 September 2000
v Yorkshire
565 1 May 1965
v Norfolk
17 September 2000
v Nottinghamshire
207 [11][12][13]
Dean Park
Bournemouth 1 July 1897
v Gentlemen of Philadelphia
18 August 1992
v Middlesex
336 22 May 1963
v Derbyshire
16 August 1992
v Northamptonshire
68 [14][15][16][n 1]
Municipal Ground
Alton only match:
7 July 1904
v South Africans
  1 0 [17][18]
Officers Club Services Ground Aldershot 25 May 1905
v Surrey
16 June 1948
v Combined Services
5 0 [19][20]
May's Bounty
Basingstoke 21 May 1906
v Warwickshire
3 August 2010
v Durham
46 29 April 1967
v Lincolnshire
18 June 2000
v Durham
30 [21][22][23]
Victoria Recreation Ground Newport 20 August 1938
v Northamptonshire
24 June 1939
v Middlesex
2 0 [24][25]
J Samuel White's Ground Cowes 26 May 1956
v Worcestershire
26 May 1962
v Worcestershire
7 0 [26][27]
Rose Bowl
Pavilion stands.JPG
West End 9 May 2001
v Worcestershire
still in use 89 2 May 2001
v Essex
still in use 91 [28][29][30]

Notes

  1. Hampshire also played one List A match at Dean Park, Bournemouth, as the away team against Dorset in the 1998 NatWest Trophy.

References

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