Cumbria County Cricket Club was established on 10 April 1946 as the Cumberland and Westmorland County Cricket Club, though the Westmorland was dropped from the name shortly thereafter. The club changed its name to Cumbria County Cricket Club in 2021. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1955 and played List A cricket from 1984 to 2003, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first minor counties fixture in 1955 was against the Yorkshire Second XI at Edenside, Carlisle, while their first List A match came 29 years later against Derbyshire in the 1984 NatWest Trophy at Parkside Road, Kendal.
The sixteen grounds that Cumbria have used for home matches since 1955 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.
Grounds
List A
Below is a complete list of grounds used by Cumberland 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.
Minor Counties
Below is a complete list of grounds used by the Cumberland County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.
Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | Refs |
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Minor Counties Championship | MCCA Trophy | |||||||
The Playground | Whitehaven | 24 August 1955 v Durham | 17 August 1980 v Durham | 9 | – | – | 0 | [20][21] |
Ernest Valentine Ground![]() | Workington | 4 June 1956 v Yorkshire Second XI | 2 June 1988 v Suffolk | 11 | 2 June 1985 v Cheshire | 21 May 2012 v Cambridgeshire | 5 | [22][23][24] |
Tynefield Park | Penrith | 23 June 1958 v Lancashire Second XI | 14 June 1994 v Buckinghamshire | 23 | 25 May 1986 v Cheshire | 2 June 2013 v Herefordshire | 12 | [25][26][27][28] |
Vicars Croft![]() | Appleby-in-Westmorland | 21 June 1967 v Yorkshire Second XI | 15 July 1990 v Lincolnshire | 3 | – | – | 0 | [29][30] |
Shap Road![]() | Kendal | 9 July 1967 v Durham | 24 July 1977 v Durham | 2 | 20 May 1990 v Northumberland | 4 May 2014 v Northumberland | 3 | [31][32][33] |
United Steel Ground | Workington | 10 July 1968 v Yorkshire Second XI | 28 June 1970 v Durham | 2 | – | – | 0 | [34][35] |
Duddon Sports Club Ground | Askam-in-Furness | 18 June 1995 v Lincolnshire | 11 July 2000 v Staffordshire | 5 | 22 May 1994 v Lincolnshire | 17 June 2001 v Durham Cricket Board | 3 | [36][37][38] |
Sedbergh School Ground![]() | Sedbergh | 11 June 2006 v Staffordshire | 17 August 2014 v Northumberland | 9 | only match: 12 June 2005 v Oxfordshire | 1 | [39][40][41] | |
Furness Park | Barrow-in-Furness | 20 June 2010 v Norfolk | 6 July 2014 v Bedfordshire | 6 | 17 May 1992 v Lincolnshire | 14 May 2006 v Shropshire | 6 | [42][43][44] |
Sandair | Cockermouth | – | – | 0 | only match: 25 May 2014 v Shropshire | 1 | [45][46] |