Morda Road is a cricket

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 Oswestry

Oswestry

Oswestry is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483, and A495 roads....

, Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1964, when Shropshire

Shropshire County Cricket Club

Shropshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Shropshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 played their first Minor Counties Championship match at the ground against the 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...

. From 1964 to 2000, the ground hosted 18 Minor Counties Championship matches. From 2000 to present, the ground has 6 MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

The Minor Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the Minor Counties in English cricket...

 matches.

The ground has also held a single List-A match between Shropshire and Northumberland

Northumberland County Cricket Club

Northumberland County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Northumberland and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 in the 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy

2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy

The 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was an English county cricket tournament, held between 28 August 2003 and 28 August 2004. The competition was won by Gloucestershire Gladiators who beat the Worcestershire Royals by 8 wickets at Lord's.-Format:...

 which was played in 2003.

In local domestic cricket, Morda Road is the home ground of Oswestry Cricket Club

Oswestry Cricket Club

Oswestry Cricket Club is an amateur Cricket club based in Oswestry, Shropshire. The Club was formed in 1855 and celebrated its 150th Anniversary in 2005 with a fixture against the Marylebone Cricket Club...

 who play in the Birmingham and District Premier League Division Three.

External links

• Morda Road on CricketArchive
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• Morda Road on Cricinfo
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