Orleans Club Ground
Encyclopedia
Orleans Club Ground was a cricket
ground in Twickenham
, London
(formerly Middlesex
). The first recorded match on the ground was in 1878, when the Orleans Club played I Zingari
. The ground held its first first-class
match during the same year when the Orleans Club played the touring Australians. Between 1878 and 1883, the ground held 4 first-class matches, the last of which saw the Orleans Club play Oxford University
. This was the last recorded match held on the ground.
Today defunct, the ground would have been located near to Orleans Road in Twickenham.
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 Twickenham
Twickenham
Twickenham is a large suburban town southwest of central London. It is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and one of the locally important district centres identified in the London Plan...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
(formerly Middlesex
Middlesex
Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...
). The first recorded match on the ground was in 1878, when the Orleans Club played I Zingari
I Zingari
I Zingari are English and Australian amateur cricket clubs.-History:...
. The ground held its first 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 during the same year when the Orleans Club played the touring Australians. Between 1878 and 1883, the ground held 4 first-class matches, the last of which saw the Orleans Club play Oxford University
Oxford University Cricket Club
Oxford University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team, representing the University of Oxford. It plays its home games at the University Parks in Oxford, England...
. This was the last recorded match held on the ground.
Today defunct, the ground would have been located near to Orleans Road in Twickenham.
External links
- Orleans 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...
- Orleans 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...