Cornwall County Cricket Club was established in November 1894.[1] The club has played minor counties cricket since 1897 and played List A cricket from 1970 to 2003, using a number of home grounds during that time. Their first minor counties fixture in 1897 was against Glamorgan, while their first List A match came 73 years later against the same opposition in the 1970 Gillette Cup. One first-class match has been held in the Duchy, when an England XI played the touring Australians in 1899. History was made in 2012, when England Women played India Women in a Women's One Day International at Boscawen Park in Truro, the first time an official international match had been played in Cornwall.[2] The club is nomadic, as such it has no headquarters.
The seventeen grounds that Cornwall have used for home matches since 1897 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2012 season.
Grounds
Map
List A
Below is a complete list of grounds used by Cornwall 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 | |||||||||
| Roskear | Camborne | 15 May 2001 v Cheshire | 29 August 2002 v Somerset Cricket Board | 2 | 3 August 1906 v Devon | 5 July 2009 v Wiltshire | 92 | 10 July 2001 v Gloucestershire Cricket Board | 4 May 2008 v Berkshire | 3 | [3][4][5][6] |
Boscawen Park | Truro | 25 April 1970 v Glamorgan | 7 May 2003 v Kent | 6 | 23 August 1968 v Devon | still in use | 45 | 14 June 1987 v Wiltshire | still in use | 10 | [7][8][9][10] |
| Wheal Eliza | St Austell | 27 June 1995 v Middlesex | 25 June 1996 v Warwickshire | 2 | 25 July 1982 v Dorset | still in use | 28 | 19 June 1994 v Devon | 23 May 2010 Wales Minor Counties | 3 | [11][12][13][14] |
Minor Counties
Below is a complete list of grounds used by the Cornwall 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 | |||||||
| St Clare Ground | Penzance | 27 August 1897 v Glamorgan | 30 July 2017 v Hertfordshire | 91 | only match: 20 July 1999 v Devon | 1 | [15][16][17][18] | |
| Tremorvah Cricket Ground | Truro | 29 June 1904 v Monmouthshire | 22 July 1912 v Kent Second XI | 11 | – | – | 0 | [19][20][n 1] |
| Lux Park | Liskeard | 17 August 1904 v Dorset | 27 August 1978 v Wiltshire | 22 | – | – | 0 | [21][22] |
Lanhydrock Cricket Ground | Lanhydrock | only match: 25 August 1904 v Cambridgeshire | 1 | – | – | 0 | [23][24] | |
| Newquay Cricket Ground | Newquay | 7 August 1905 v Dorset | 13 August 1906 v Dorset | 2 | – | – | 0 | [25][26] |
| Port Eliot Cricket Ground | Port Eliot | only match: 29 July 1921 v Berkshire | 1 | – | – | 0 | [27][28] | |
| School Ground | Truro | 24 July 1925 v Monmouthshire | 2 August 1946 v Dorset | 13 | – | – | 0 | [29][30] |
| Egloshayle Road | Wadebridge | 3 July 1959 v Gloucestershire Second XI | 13 June 1988 v Cheshire | 23 | – | – | 0 | [31][32] |
Beacon Park | Helston | 21 August 1970 v Wiltshire | 13 June 1994 v Cheshire | 11 | 17 May 1998 v Dorset | 9 July 2000 v Wiltshire | 3 | [33][34][35] |
New Road | Callington | 16 August 1971 v Dorset | 22 August 1973 v Oxfordshire | 3 | – | – | 0 | [36][37] |
| Treslothian Road | Troon | 13 July 1980 v Somerset Second XI | 14 July 1985 v Devon | 3 | – | – | 0 | [38][39] |
| Trewirgie Cricket Ground | Redruth | only match: 8 June 1992 v Cheshire | 1 | 2 May 2010 v Devon | 5 June 2012 v Wiltshire | 2 | [40][41][42] | |
Ladycross Cricket Ground | Werrington | 15 June 1998 v Cheshire | 15 August 1999 v Berkshire | 2 | – | – | 0 | [43][44] |
| Cape Cornwall School | St Just | – | – | 0 | 11 June 2000 v Devon | 1 June 2008 v Devon | 4 | [45][46] |
