LC de Villiers Oval

LC de Villiers Oval or Tuks Cricket Oval is a cricket ground in Pretoria, South Africa. It is located in the premises of the Pretoria University. It is an occasional home ground for Northerns cricket team.

LC de Villiers Oval

LC de Villiers Oval
Ground information
Location	Pretoria, South Africa
Establishment	1993
Capacity	2,000
Owner	University of Pretoria
Architect	n/a
Operator	Cricket South Africa
Tenants	South Africa
International information
First WODI	24 March 2005:  Australia v  New Zealand
Last WODI	3 April 2003:  South Africa v  New Zealand
Only WT20I	15 May 2019:  South Africa v  Pakistan
Team information
Northerns (1993–) South Africa A (1993–)
As of 7 September 2020 Source: Cricinfo

The university's High Performance Centre which was established in 2002 has become the favored location for the pre-departure camps of Team South Africa in addition to being chosen by several national and international federations as their preferred specialization centre.[1]

Oval consist of 6 cricket fields, 3 Football fields, one rugby, two hockey field. Stadium is also shared with athletics. All field has floodlights with capacity of 2,000 persons. The oval hosted two Youth ODIs in 1998 ICC Under-19s World Cup[2] and five women's ODIs in 2005 International Women's Cricket Council World Cup.[3]

In 2013, Indian opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan scored unbeaten 248 run on this ground against South Africa A.[4]