Egerton Park

Egerton Park is a cricket ground in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The land for the park was purchased from the Egerton Lodge Estate by the Melton Mowbray Town Estate in 1931.[1] Egerton Park was used as an outground by Leicestershire following the Second World War, playing three first-class cricket matches there against Somerset, Lancashire and Kent in the 1946, 1947 and 1948 County Championship's respectively.[2] Egerton Park played host to international cricket in 1986, when Malaysia played Zimbabwe in the ICC Trophy, though the match carried no official status.[3]

Egerton Park
Ground information
LocationMelton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Establishment1931
Team information
Leicestershire (1946–1948)
As of 22 October 2020
Source: Ground profile

First-class records
  • Highest team total: 355 all out by Lancashire v Leicestershire, 1947[4]
  • Lowest team total: 141 all out by Leicestershire v Somerset, 1946[5]
  • Highest individual innings: 102* by Arthur Fagg for Kent v Leicestershire, 1948[6]
  • Best bowling in an innings: 7–56 by Jack Walsh for Leicestershire v Somerset, 1946[7]
  • Best bowling in a match: 13–107 by Jack Walsh, as above[8]

See also

References
  1. "Egerton Park" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  2. "First-Class Matches played on Egerton Park, Melton Mowbray". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  3. "ICC Trophy Matches played on Egerton Park, Melton Mowbray". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  4. "Leicestershire v Lancashire, 1947 County Championship". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  5. "Leicestershire v Somerset, 1946 County Championship". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  6. "Egerton Park, Melton Mowbray - Centuries in first-class cricket". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  7. "Egerton Park, Melton Mowbray - Seven Wickets in an Innings in first-class cricket". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  8. "Egerton Park, Melton Mowbray - Most Wickets in a Match in first-class cricket". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.

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