Great Oakley Cricket Club Ground
Encyclopedia
Great Oakley Cricket Club Ground is a cricket
ground in Great Oakley
, Northamptonshire
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1960, when the ground held Northamptonshire Second XI
played the Surrey Second XI
in the Second XI Championship
. The ground has played host to a total of 14 Second XI fixtures involving the Northamptonshire Second XI.
In 1990, the ground held a single Women's One Day International between England women and Ireland women.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Great Oakley Cricket Club.
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 Great Oakley
Great Oakley, Northamptonshire
Great Oakley is a small village situated approximately two miles from Corby and five miles from Kettering. It is represented on Corby Borough Council by one councillor....
, Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1960, when the ground held Northamptonshire Second XI
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club
Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northants Steelbacks. The traditional club colour is Maroon. During the...
played the Surrey Second XI
Surrey County Cricket Club
Surrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...
in the Second XI Championship
Second XI Championship
The Second XI Championship is a season-long cricket competition in England that is competed for by the reserve teams of those county cricket clubs that have first-class status...
. The ground has played host to a total of 14 Second XI fixtures involving the Northamptonshire Second XI.
In 1990, the ground held a single Women's One Day International between England women and Ireland women.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Great Oakley Cricket Club.
External links
- Great Oakley 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...
- Great Oakley 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...