Bath Cricket Club Ground
Encyclopedia
Bath Cricket Club Ground is a cricket
ground in Bath, Somerset
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1944, when Bath played London Counties
. In 1960 and 1963, the ground held Somerset Second XI
matches in the Minor Counties Championship.
In 2007, the ground held two Women's Twenty20 Internationals
matches, both between England women and New Zealand women
. The ground held its first and to date only Women's One Day International in 2008 between England women and India women.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Bath Cricket Club
who play in the West of England Premier League
.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
ground in Bath, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1944, when Bath played London Counties
London Counties cricket team
London Counties was a representative cricket side that was formed during the Second World War by Charles Jones.Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, the government issued an order "closing all places of entertainment and outdoor sports meetings". However, this was soon rescinded and there was...
. In 1960 and 1963, the ground held Somerset Second XI
Somerset County Cricket Club
Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...
matches in the Minor Counties Championship.
In 2007, the ground held two Women's Twenty20 Internationals
Women's Twenty20 cricket
Women's Twenty20 cricket is the newly emerging use of the Twenty20 match format in women's cricket. While both women's cricket and Twenty20 have themselves enjoyed recent success, women's Twenty20 has only been an international cricket game format since 2004...
matches, both between England women and New Zealand women
New Zealand women's cricket team
The New Zealand women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1935, when they lost to England. Since then they have only won two Tests, once against Australia, and once against South Africa....
. The ground held its first and to date only Women's One Day International in 2008 between England women and India women.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Bath Cricket Club
Bath Cricket Club
Bath Cricket Club is an English amateur cricket club based in the city of Bath, Somerset. The club was founded in 1859 and competes in the West of England Premier League, which is an accredited ECB Premier League, the highest level for recreational club cricket in England and Wales.Home matches...
who play in the West of England Premier League
West of England Premier League
The West of England Premier League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in the West of England and is a designated ECB Premier League....
.
External links
- Bath Cricket Club Ground on CricketArchiveCricketArchiveCricketArchive is a website that aims to provide a comprehensive archive of records relating to the sport of cricket. It claims to be the most comprehensive cricket database on the internet, including scorecards for all matches of first-class cricket , List A cricket , Women's Test cricket and...
- Bath Cricket Club Ground on CricinfoCricinfoESPNcricinfo is believed to be the largest cricket-related website on the World Wide Web. Content includes news,articles, live scorecards,live text commentary and a comprehensive and searchable database called 'StatsGuru', of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present...