Test Cricket venues...

[janzman]

...In june 2003 the Riverside Stadium at Chester-le-Street became the 8th test cricket venue in England.....overtaking the 7th... which is where?

[DTCwordfan]

The Oval

[DTCwordfan]

want the year?

[janzman]

If I was a betting man steve I'dhave put my money on you to know (or google very fast) that one.well done

[DTCwordfan]

sorry read it as first, Bramall Lane was the one before the Riverside, before that Edgbaston, both the same year 1902 I think

[janzman]

spot on DT..

[DTCwordfan]

Whats the largest cricket pitch a Yorkshire team have played on as a home game...and a clue, strangely it lies outside the County.

[DTCwordfan]

Thats bloody Lancashire lad and the real enemy - you have to really go back into the depths of Yorkshire history

[janzman]

sorry steve should have known better..:-)

[DTCwordfan]

someone playing there could be registered for Yorkshire, Lancashire or Cumbria as the ground risks being a base for all three- it pisses Tykes off as they see it as their own but no longer is.

The ground is now one of the homes of another county team - they only played one 1st class match there but plenty of 2nd XI games.....home to a number of famous rugby players too.

[DTCwordfan]

that sounds like the Oval, steve, at first guess.....and along the same lines of my question.

[Prudie]

OK which County ground has a tree growing on the pitch?

[DTCwordfan]

Did have I believe.....didnt lightening take it out....

[Prudie]

ooh didn't know that - it's still showing in photos on their website..

[DTCwordfan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk.../magazine/4164313.stm

they may have replanted it.

There is a second though but in S-Africa - Pietermaritzburg Oval

[Prudie]

Well I didn't know that, still it's 20 years since I lived there (Kent that is)

[DTCwordfan]

Sedbergh Cumbria - used to be part of West Yorkshire