Berkshire County Cricket Club was established on 17 March 1895. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1895 and played List A cricket from 1965 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1895 was against Hertfordshire at Reading School Ground, while their first home List A match came seventy years later against Somerset in the 1965 Gillette Cup at Church Road, Reading. The now defunct County Ground in Reading has held the most Minor Counties Championship fixtures for Berkshire.
The thirty grounds that Berkshire have used for home matches since 1895 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.
Grounds
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List A
Below is a complete list of grounds used by Berkshire County Cricket Club when it was permitted to play List A matches. These grounds have also held Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.
| Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List A | Minor Counties Championship | MCCA Trophy | |||||||||
| Church Road | Reading | 28 April 1965 v Somerset | 29 June 1983 v Yorkshire | 3 | 11 August 1948 v Hertfordshire | 16 August 1983 v Cheshire | 41 | – | – | 0 | [1][2][3][n 1] |
| Courages Cricket Ground | Reading | only match: 25 June 1986 v Gloucestershire | 1 | 9 August 1975 v Wiltshire | 31 July 1983 v Wiltshire | 8 | only match: 20 May 1984 v Buckinghamshire | 1 | [4][5][6][7] | ||
Finchampstead Park | Finchampstead | 22 June 1988 v Yorkshire | 29 August 2002 v Ireland | 14 | 11 June 1982 v Buckinghamshire | 20 July 2014 v Herefordshire | 31 | 18 May 1997 v Shropshire | 14 July 2013 v Northumberland | 8 | [8][9][10][11] |
| Sonning Lane | Reading | 26 June 1991 v Hampshire | 3 May 2005 v Gloucestershire | 6 | 31 July 1988 v Cornwall | 20 August 2006 v Oxfordshire | 21 | – | – | 0 | [12][13][14] |
Minor Counties
Below is a complete list of grounds used by Berkshire County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.
| Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minor Counties Championship | MCCA Trophy | |||||||
Reading School Ground | Reading School | 20 August 1895 v Hertfordshire | 7 July 1996 v Cornwall | 19 | 5 June 1987 v Staffordshire | 28 June 1987 v Buckinghamshire | 2 | [15][16][17] |
County Ground | Reading | 17 August 1896 v Wiltshire | 13 August 1986 v Devon | 191 | – | – | 0 | [18][19] |
| Wargrave Cricket Club Ground | Wargrave | 11 August 1922 v Wiltshire | 21 August 1925 v Cornwall | 3 | only match: 11 May 2014 v Staffordshire | 1 | [20][21][22] | |
| HM Martineau's Ground | Holyport | 22 June 1927 v Hertfordshire | 19 August 1932 v Wiltshire | 3 | – | – | 0 | [23][24] |
| Sutton's Seeds, Cintra Ground | Reading | 22 July 1930 v Oxfordshire | 16 August 1954 v Dorset | 7 | – | – | 0 | [25][26] |
| Royal Ordnance Depot Ground | Didcot | only match: 27 August 1947 v Oxfordshire | 1 | – | – | 0 | [27][28] | |
Bartholomew's Grammar School Ground | Newbury | 23 August 1948 v Dorset | 20 July 1973 v Wiltshire | 19 | – | – | 0 | [29][30] |
| The Brakspear Ground | Remenham | 6 August 1952 v Oxfordshire | 8 June 2014 v Cornwall | 5 | 27 April 2008 v Herefordshire | 22 April 2012 v Wales Minor Counties | 6 | [31][32][33][n 2] |
| Reading University Ground | Reading | 14 August 1959 v Devon | 29 May 1983 v Shropshire | 20 | – | – | 0 | [34][35] |
| Atomic Energy Research Establishment Ground | Harwell | 3 August 1960 v Oxfordshire | 17 August 1964 v Wiltshire | 3 | – | – | 0 | [36][37] |
Home Park | Windsor | 14 August 1963 v Devon | 30 July 1974 v Dorset | 10 | – | – | 0 | [38][39] |
| Hales Meadow | Abingdon | 13 August 1962 v Wiltshire | 14 August 1975 v Oxfordshire | 7 | – | – | 0 | [40][41] |
| Boyne Grove | Maidenhead | 7 August 1967 v Buckinghamshire | 18 July 1982 v Oxfordshire | 8 | – | – | 0 | [42][43] |
| Bray Ground | Bray | 26 August 1968 v Cornwall | 29 May 1994 v Oxfordshire | 7 | – | – | 0 | [44][45] |
| Royal Military Academy | Sandhurst | only match: 11 August 1972 v Oxfordshire | 1 | – | – | 0 | [46][47] | |
| War Memorial Ground | Hungerford | 19 July 1974 v Wiltshire | 21 May 2000 v Wales Minor Counties | 6 | only match: 16 May 1999 v Buckinghamshire | 1 | [48][49][50] | |
| Ibis Cricket Club Ground | Reading | 6 August 1977 v Wiltshire | 29 July 1981 v Oxfordshire | 5 | – | – | 0 | [51][52] |
Gallowstree Common | Kidmore End | 2 August 1981 v Cornwall | 20 August 1996 v Oxfordshire | 15 | 26 May 2013 v Buckinghamshire | 25 May 2014 v Herefordshire | 2 | [53][54][55] |
Bradfield College Ground | Bradfield | 5 August 1982 v Wiltshire | 9 August 1990 v Devon | 4 | – | – | 0 | [56][57] |
| Large's Lane | Bracknell | 11 August 1987 v Cheshire | 29 May 1988 v Buckinghamshire | 2 | 2 June 1985 v Shropshire | 9 June 1986 v Buckinghamshire | 2 | [58][59][60] |
| Enborne Lodge | Newbury | 2 July 1985 v Wiltshire | 6 July 2014 v Wiltshire | 34 | 19 June 1994 v Buckinghamshire | 16 June 2013 v Cornwall | 8 | [61][62][63] |
| Wellington College Ground | Crowthorne | – | – | 0 | only match: 3 June 1990 v Buckinghamshire | 1 | [64][65] | |
Wokingham Road | Hurst | 23 June 1996 v Wales Minor Counties | 2 July 2010 v Cornwall | 5 | 31 May 1987 v Oxfordshire | 21 May 2001 v Sussex Cricket Board | 2 | [66][67][68] |
| Chalvey Road | Slough | – | – | 0 | only match: 9 June 1999 v Sussex Cricket Board | 1 | [69][70][n 3] | |
| Browns Sports Field | Thatcham | – | – | 0 | 4 June 2000 v Sussex Cricket Board | 29 April 2007 v Wales Minor Counties | 5 | [71][72] |
The Memorial Ground | Burnham | – | – | 0 | only match: 5 May 2013 v Dorset | 1 | [73][74][n 4] | |
Notes
- A combined Minor Counties cricket team played one first-class match against the touring Sri Lankans in 1981. A combined Minor Counties cricket team also played a single List A match here against Hampshire in the 1985 Benson & Hedges Cup. Only the List A matches played by Berkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
- Oxfordshire played twelve Minor Counties Championship matches here between 1964–1978. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Berkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
- Buckinghamshire have played Minor Counties Championship matches here between 1904–1998, as well as a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match against Oxfordshire in 1992. Only the MCCA Knockout Trophy match played by Berkshire at the ground is recorded in the table.
- The Memorial Ground is located in the adjacent county of Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire have played Minor Counties Championship matches here from 2006 onward, as well as a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match against Herefordshire in 2014. Only the MCCA Knockout Trophy match played by Berkshire at the ground is recorded in the table.
References
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