List of Middlesex County Cricket Club grounds

Middlesex County Cricket Club was established on 2 February 1864; before then there had been an informal county team, which had played first-class cricket from 1787. Middlesex County Cricket Club has played first-class cricket from 1864, List A cricket from 1963 and Twenty20 cricket from 2003,[A] using a number of home grounds during that time. The Cattle Market Ground in Islington hosted the club's first home fixture in first-class cricket against Sussex in 1864; Lord's in St John's Wood hosted the club's first home List A match against Northamptonshire in 1963; and the club's first home fixture in Twenty20 cricket against Kent in 2003 was at the Old Deer Park in Richmond. Middlesex have played home matches at fourteen grounds, but have played the majority of their home fixtures at Lord's, which also holds Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket matches.

Interior view of Lord's cricket ground
Lord's became Middlesex's home ground in 1869. It is often referred to as "the home of cricket".

The administrative county of Middlesex ceased to exist in 1965 when its county council was dissolved,[1] and the majority of the county club's grounds are now in Greater London.

Grounds

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Middlesex County Cricket Club for first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. Statistics are complete through to the end of the 2014 season. Only matches played by Middlesex CCC at the grounds are recorded in the table. Matches abandoned without any play occurring are not included.

NameLocationFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesRefs
First-classList ATwenty20
Cattle Market GroundIslington6 June 1864
v Sussex
20 August 1868
v Surrey
1600[2][3][n 1]
Lord's
St John's Wood12 July 1869
v Surrey
9 September 2014
v Durham
1,33212 June 1963
v Northamptonshire
14 August 2014
v Nottinghamshire
44115 July 2004
v Surrey
24 July 2014
v Surrey
32[4][5][6][7][n 2]
Lillie BridgeWest Brompton18 May 1871
v Surrey
Ground defunct100[8][9][n 3]
Prince's Cricket GroundChelsea23 May 1872
v Yorkshire
10 July 1876
v Nottinghamshire
1800[10][11][n 4]
Chiswick ParkChiswick23 June 1887
v Oxford University
no other matches to date100[12][13][n 5]
Tivoli RoadHornsey8 July 1959
v Hampshire
no other matches to date100[14][15]
Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground
Uxbridge20 August 1980
v Derbyshire
7 July 2014
v Somerset
4517 May 1983
v Glamorgan
5 August 2012
v Worcestershire
2023 June 2003
v Hampshire
7 July 2013
v Kent
12[16][17][18][19]
Woodside
Watford025 June 1981
v Sri Lankans
no other matches to date10[20][21][n 6]
Lincoln Road
Enfield03 July 1982
v Cheshire
no other matches to date10[22][23]
John Walker's Ground
Southgate26 June 1998
v Essex
28 April 2009
v Leicestershire
202 June 1991
v Kent
3 May 2009
v Kent
2012 July 2004
v Essex
10 July 2011
v Somerset
5[24][25][26][27][n 7]
Old Deer Park
Richmond028 August 2000
v Nottinghamshire
5 July 2004
v Scotland
419 June 2003
v Kent
3 July 2014
v Glamorgan
9[28][29][30][n 8]
Denis Compton Oval
Shenley11 May 2002
v Sri Lankans
30 May 2003
v Zimbabweans
215 September 2002
v Lancashire
25 May 2003
v Northamptonshire
20[31][32][33][n 9]
Merchant Taylors' School
Northwood31 March 2012
v Durham MCCU
no other matches to date1025 May 2014
v Hampshire
no other matches to date1[34][35][36]
Brunton Memorial Ground
Radlett027 May 2013
v Yorkshire
no other matches to date10[37][38][n 10]

Middlesex played a home game against Somerset at the County Ground Chelmsford, Essex in August 1977; the match having been scheduled for the previous week at Lord's but postponed due to a rearrangement of a one-day cup semi-final.

The Middlesex v Notts game on 15/18 July 1939 was played at the Kennington Oval due to rescheduling of games due to the preparations for an imminent war.

Notes

A. ^ First-class cricket matches are designed to be contested over multiple days, with each team permitted two innings with no limit to the number of overs in an innings. List A matches are intended to be completed in a single day and restrict each team to a single innings of between 40 and 60 overs, depending on the specific competition. Twenty20 matches restrict each team to a single innings of 20 overs.

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