Swilgate 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 Tewkesbury

Tewkesbury

Tewkesbury is a town in Gloucestershire, England. It stands at the confluence of the River Severn and the River Avon, and also minor tributaries the Swilgate and Carrant Brook...

, Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....

. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1893, when Tewkesbury played Handsworth Wood.

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....

 played 2 List-A matches at the ground, the first of which saw them play Yorkshire

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....

 in the 1972 John Player League. The second and final List-A match at the ground came the following season in the same tournament when Gloucestershire played Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...

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Gloucestershire Women used the ground in the 2010 Women's County Championship

Women's County Championship

The Women's County Championship is the women's domestic cricket league in the British Isles...

 Division Five South and West against Wiltshire Women. In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Tewkesbury Cricket Club.

External links

• Swilgate on CricketArchive
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• Swilgate on Cricinfo
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