Shaw Lane is a cricket ground in Barnsley

Barnsley

Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Dearne, north of the city of Sheffield, south of Leeds and west of Doncaster. Barnsley is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, of which Barnsley is the largest and...

. It hosted one first-class match, in August 1862 between Yorkshire and an All England XI, a game won by the England XI despite being bowled out for just 47 in their first innings.

More recently, it hosted four Benson and Hedges Cup one day matches featuring Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

 between 1975 and 1978. Yorkshire beat Nottinghamshire CCC in 1975 but suffered one of their worst defeats when they lost by seven wickets to the Combined Universities the following year. The combined team did feature such future test players as Paul Parker

Paul Parker (cricketer)

Paul Parker MA is an English schoolmaster and former cricketer, who played in one Test in 1981.-Life and career:...

, Vic Marks

Vic Marks

Vic Marks is a former Somerset and England cricketer, who played in six Tests and thirty four ODIs....

 and Chris Tavare

Chris Tavaré

Christopher James Tavaré is an English retired cricketer, who played in thirty one Tests and twenty nine One Day Internationals from 1980 to 1989.-Life and career:...

 as well as Peter Roebuck

Peter Roebuck

Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who achieved later renown as an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and "one of the better English openers of the 1980s", Roebuck captained the English county side Somerset...

. Yorkshire beat Essex CCC there in 1977 then lost to Surrey CCC by just one wicket in last list A game held at the venue.

In 2010, it was the location for a Women's ODI, the 4th ODI between England Women and New Zealand Women, which England Women won by 9 wickets.

It has also hosted several Second XI and Minor Counties matches, and matches in the Yorkshire Premier League.

It is the home of Barnsley Cricket Club

Barnsley Cricket Club

Barnsley Cricket Club play in the Yorkshire ECB County Premier League , winning the league title in 2006 for the first time in their history. The club is based at Shaw Lane which hosted four Benson and Hedges Cup ties in the 1970s and one first class match between Yorkshire and an All England XI...

, for whom such players as Geoff Boycott, Dickie Bird and chat show host Michael Parkinson

Michael Parkinson

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 opened the batting. It is one of twelve grounds in the initial 'Chance to Shine

Chance to Shine

Chance to Shine is a 10-year programme run by the charitable Cricket Foundation to encourage competitive cricket in state schools in the UK.Devised and implemented by former cricketer Nick Gandon, it launched with pilot programmes launched in March 2005 - immediately before the 2005 Ashes series -...

' scheme for grassroots cricket. It has been known as Shaw Lane since 1863 but before then was known as the Clarence Ground.