Lower Domain Ground
Encyclopedia
Lower Domain Ground was a cricket
ground in Hobart
, Tasmania
, Australia
. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1835 when Hobart Town played United Services. The ground held a single first-class
match in 1858 when Tasmania played Victoria, which in a 69 run victory for Victoria. The last recorded match on the ground was between Southern Tasmania Cricket Association and the Australians. The ground is now defunct as a cricket venue.
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 Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
, Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1835 when Hobart Town played United Services. The ground held a single first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
match in 1858 when Tasmania played Victoria, which in a 69 run victory for Victoria. The last recorded match on the ground was between Southern Tasmania Cricket Association and the Australians. The ground is now defunct as a cricket venue.
External links
- Lower Domain Ground at ESPNcricinfo
- Lower Domain Ground at 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...