Pratten Park is a sporting complex in the Sydney

Sydney

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 suburb of Ashfield

Ashfield, New South Wales

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 featuring an oval playing field large enough to play 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...

, a lawn bowling club

Bowls

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 and a tennis

Tennis

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 club. The Park is best known as the original home of the Western Suburbs Magpies

Western Suburbs Magpies

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 rugby league

Rugby league

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 team, who played there for around half a century before moving west to Lidcombe Oval

Lidcombe Oval

Lidcombe Oval is a playing field in the Western Sydney suburb of Lidcombe, and is part of Wyatt Park. Situated in Church Street, on the northern side of the railway line, it has a capacity of more than 20,000 and is used mainly for football matches of various codes...

. The ground is still home to the Western Suburbs Cricket Club

Sydney Grade Cricket

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, a club that has had Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke (cricketer)

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 and Bob Simpson

Bob Simpson (cricketer)

Robert Baddeley Simpson AO is a former cricketer who played for New South Wales, Western Australia and Australia, captaining the national team from 1963–64 until 1967–68, and again in 1977–78. He later had a highly successful term as the coach of the Australian team...

 among its playing ranks over the years. In the past, Pratten Park has also hosted NSW league and National Soccer League

National Soccer League

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games.

Pratten Park is very simple in its facilities. There is a small grandstand in the north-western corner with the rest of the ground surrounded by grass hills. For several years the grandstand had fallen into disrepair and had been closed; but restoration work saw it re-opened in late 2007.