Vista Road Recreation Ground
Encyclopedia
Vista Road Recreation Ground is a cricket
ground in Clacton-on-Sea
, Essex
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1931, when Essex
played their first first-class
match there against Lancashire
. Essex played 60 first-class matches there between 1931 and 1966, playing their final first-class match there against Leicestershire
in the 1966 County Championship
.
The ground has also held 5 Second XI fixtures between 1948 and 1952 for the Essex Second XI
in the Minor Counties Championship.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Clacton Cricket Club who play in the East Anglian Premier Cricket League
.
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 Clacton-on-Sea
Clacton-on-Sea
Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring peninsula, in Essex, England and was founded in 1871. It is a seaside resort that attracted many tourists in the summer months between the 1950s and 1970s, but which like many other British sea-side resorts went into decline as a holiday...
, Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1931, when Essex
Essex County Cricket Club
Essex 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 Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...
played their 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 there against 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...
. Essex played 60 first-class matches there between 1931 and 1966, playing their final first-class match there against Leicestershire
Leicestershire County Cricket Club
Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland....
in the 1966 County Championship
County Championship
The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
.
The ground has also held 5 Second XI fixtures between 1948 and 1952 for the Essex Second XI
Essex County Cricket Club
Essex 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 Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...
in the Minor Counties Championship.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Clacton Cricket Club who play in the East Anglian Premier Cricket League
East Anglian Premier Cricket League
The East Anglian Premier Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in East Anglia, England, and since 1999 has been a designated ECB Premier League...
.
External links
- Vista Road Recreation 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...
- Vista Road Recreation 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...