VRA Cricket Ground
Encyclopedia
VRA Cricket Ground is a cricket
ground in Amstelveen
, the Netherlands
. During the 1999 Cricket World Cup
, it hosted a match between Kenya and South Africa. The ground has a capacity of 4,500 spectators and regularly plays host to the Netherlands home games in both One Day International and Intercontinental Cup forms of the game.
The ground has been the home of VRA Cricket Club since 1988 following their move from their old ground which is now the home of the Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club
.
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 Amstelveen
Amstelveen
' is a suburban municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is part of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam. The municipality of Amstelveen consists of the following villages and/or districts: Amstelveen, Bovenkerk, Westwijk, Bankras-Kostverloren, Groenelaan, Waardhuizen,...
, the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. During the 1999 Cricket World Cup
1999 Cricket World Cup
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, it hosted a match between Kenya and South Africa. The ground has a capacity of 4,500 spectators and regularly plays host to the Netherlands home games in both One Day International and Intercontinental Cup forms of the game.
The ground has been the home of VRA Cricket Club since 1988 following their move from their old ground which is now the home of the Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club
Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club
Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club is the oldest field hockey club of the Netherlands. AH&BC is also the largest field hockey club of Amsterdam ....
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External links
- Ground profile from 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...