List of Berkshire County Cricket Club grounds

Berkshire County Cricket Club was established on 17 March 1895. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1895 and played List A cricket from 1965 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1895 was against Hertfordshire at Reading School Ground, while their first home List A match came seventy years later against Somerset in the 1965 Gillette Cup at Church Road, Reading. The now defunct County Ground in Reading has held the most Minor Counties Championship fixtures for Berkshire.

The thirty grounds that Berkshire have used for home matches since 1895 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 Berkshire 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
Church RoadReading 28 April 1965
v Somerset		29 June 1983
v Yorkshire		3 11 August 1948
v Hertfordshire		16 August 1983
v Cheshire		41 ––0 [1][2][3][n 1]
Courages Cricket GroundReading only match:
25 June 1986
v Gloucestershire		 1 9 August 1975
v Wiltshire		31 July 1983
v Wiltshire		8 only match:
20 May 1984
v Buckinghamshire		 1 [4][5][6][7]
Finchampstead Park
Finchampstead 22 June 1988
v Yorkshire		29 August 2002
v Ireland		14 11 June 1982
v Buckinghamshire		20 July 2014
v Herefordshire		31 18 May 1997
v Shropshire		14 July 2013
v Northumberland		8 [8][9][10][11]
Sonning LaneReading 26 June 1991
v Hampshire		3 May 2005
v Gloucestershire		6 31 July 1988
v Cornwall		20 August 2006
v Oxfordshire		21 ––0 [12][13][14]

Minor Counties

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Berkshire 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
Reading School Ground
Reading School 20 August 1895
v Hertfordshire		7 July 1996
v Cornwall		19 5 June 1987
v Staffordshire		28 June 1987
v Buckinghamshire		2 [15][16][17]
County Ground
Reading 17 August 1896
v Wiltshire		13 August 1986
v Devon		191 ––0 [18][19]
Wargrave Cricket Club GroundWargrave 11 August 1922
v Wiltshire		21 August 1925
v Cornwall		3 only match:
11 May 2014
v Staffordshire		 1 [20][21][22]
HM Martineau's GroundHolyport 22 June 1927
v Hertfordshire		19 August 1932
v Wiltshire		3 ––0 [23][24]
Sutton's Seeds, Cintra GroundReading 22 July 1930
v Oxfordshire		16 August 1954
v Dorset		7 ––0 [25][26]
Royal Ordnance Depot GroundDidcot only match:
27 August 1947
v Oxfordshire		 1 ––0 [27][28]
Bartholomew's Grammar School Ground
Newbury 23 August 1948
v Dorset		20 July 1973
v Wiltshire		19 ––0 [29][30]
The Brakspear GroundRemenham 6 August 1952
v Oxfordshire		8 June 2014
v Cornwall		5 27 April 2008
v Herefordshire		22 April 2012
v Wales Minor Counties		6 [31][32][33][n 2]
Reading University GroundReading 14 August 1959
v Devon		29 May 1983
v Shropshire		20 ––0 [34][35]
Atomic Energy Research Establishment GroundHarwell 3 August 1960
v Oxfordshire		17 August 1964
v Wiltshire		3 ––0 [36][37]
Home ParkWindsor 14 August 1963
v Devon		30 July 1974
v Dorset		10 ––0 [38][39]
Hales MeadowAbingdon 13 August 1962
v Wiltshire		14 August 1975
v Oxfordshire		7 ––0 [40][41]
Boyne GroveMaidenhead 7 August 1967
v Buckinghamshire		18 July 1982
v Oxfordshire		8 ––0 [42][43]
Bray GroundBray 26 August 1968
v Cornwall		29 May 1994
v Oxfordshire		7 ––0 [44][45]
Royal Military AcademySandhurst only match:
11 August 1972
v Oxfordshire		 1 ––0 [46][47]
War Memorial GroundHungerford 19 July 1974
v Wiltshire		21 May 2000
v Wales Minor Counties		6 only match:
16 May 1999
v Buckinghamshire		 1 [48][49][50]
Ibis Cricket Club GroundReading 6 August 1977
v Wiltshire		29 July 1981
v Oxfordshire		5 ––0 [51][52]
Gallowstree Common
Kidmore End 2 August 1981
v Cornwall		20 August 1996
v Oxfordshire		15 26 May 2013
v Buckinghamshire		25 May 2014
v Herefordshire		2 [53][54][55]
Bradfield College Ground
Bradfield 5 August 1982
v Wiltshire		9 August 1990
v Devon		4 ––0 [56][57]
Large's LaneBracknell 11 August 1987
v Cheshire		29 May 1988
v Buckinghamshire		2 2 June 1985
v Shropshire		9 June 1986
v Buckinghamshire		2 [58][59][60]
Enborne LodgeNewbury 2 July 1985
v Wiltshire		6 July 2014
v Wiltshire		34 19 June 1994
v Buckinghamshire		16 June 2013
v Cornwall		8 [61][62][63]
Wellington College GroundCrowthorne ––0 only match:
3 June 1990
v Buckinghamshire		 1 [64][65]
Wokingham RoadHurst 23 June 1996
v Wales Minor Counties		2 July 2010
v Cornwall		5 31 May 1987
v Oxfordshire		21 May 2001
v Sussex Cricket Board		2 [66][67][68]
Chalvey RoadSlough ––0 only match:
9 June 1999
v Sussex Cricket Board		 1 [69][70][n 3]
Browns Sports FieldThatcham ––0 4 June 2000
v Sussex Cricket Board		29 April 2007
v Wales Minor Counties		5 [71][72]
The Memorial Ground
Burnham ––0 only match:
5 May 2013
v Dorset		 1 [73][74][n 4]

Notes
  1. A combined Minor Counties cricket team played one first-class match against the touring Sri Lankans in 1981. A combined Minor Counties cricket team also played a single List A match here against Hampshire in the 1985 Benson & Hedges Cup. Only the List A matches played by Berkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
  2. Oxfordshire played twelve Minor Counties Championship matches here between 1964–1978. Only the Minor Counties Championship matches played by Berkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
  3. Buckinghamshire have played Minor Counties Championship matches here between 1904–1998, as well as a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match against Oxfordshire in 1992. Only the MCCA Knockout Trophy match played by Berkshire at the ground is recorded in the table.
  4. The Memorial Ground is located in the adjacant county of Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire have played Minor Counties Championship matches here from 2006 onward, as well as a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match against Herefordshire in 2014. Only the MCCA Knockout Trophy match played by Berkshire at the ground is recorded in the table.

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