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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.
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.
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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.
Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | Refs |
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First-class | List A | Twenty20 | |||||||||
Cattle Market Ground | Islington | 6 June 1864 v Sussex |
20 August 1868 v Surrey |
16 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | [2][3][n 1] |
Lord's |
St John's Wood | 12 July 1869 v Surrey |
9 September 2014 v Durham |
1,332 | 12 June 1963 v Northamptonshire |
14 August 2014 v Nottinghamshire |
441 | 15 July 2004 v Surrey |
24 July 2014 v Surrey |
32 | [4][5][6][7][n 2] |
Lillie Bridge | West Brompton | 18 May 1871 v Surrey |
Ground defunct | 1 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | [8][9][n 3] |
Prince's Cricket Ground | Chelsea | 23 May 1872 v Yorkshire |
10 July 1876 v Nottinghamshire |
18 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | [10][11][n 4] |
Chiswick Park | Chiswick | 23 June 1887 v Oxford University |
no other matches to date | 1 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | [12][13][n 5] |
Tivoli Road | Hornsey | 8 July 1959 v Hampshire |
no other matches to date | 1 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | [14][15] |
Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground |
Uxbridge | 20 August 1980 v Derbyshire |
7 July 2014 v Somerset |
45 | 17 May 1983 v Glamorgan |
5 August 2012 v Worcestershire |
20 | 23 June 2003 v Hampshire |
7 July 2013 v Kent |
12 | [16][17][18][19] |
Woodside |
Watford | – | – | 0 | 25 June 1981 v Sri Lankans |
no other matches to date | 1 | – | – | 0 | [20][21][n 6] |
Lincoln Road |
Enfield | – | – | 0 | 3 July 1982 v Cheshire |
no other matches to date | 1 | – | – | 0 | [22][23] |
John Walker's Ground |
Southgate | 26 June 1998 v Essex |
28 April 2009 v Leicestershire |
20 | 2 June 1991 v Kent |
3 May 2009 v Kent |
20 | 12 July 2004 v Essex |
10 July 2011 v Somerset |
5 | [24][25][26][27][n 7] |
Old Deer Park |
Richmond | – | – | 0 | 28 August 2000 v Nottinghamshire |
5 July 2004 v Scotland |
4 | 19 June 2003 v Kent |
3 July 2014 v Glamorgan |
9 | [28][29][30][n 8] |
Denis Compton Oval |
Shenley | 11 May 2002 v Sri Lankans |
30 May 2003 v Zimbabweans |
2 | 15 September 2002 v Lancashire |
25 May 2003 v Northamptonshire |
2 | – | – | 0 | [31][32][33][n 9] |
Merchant Taylors' School |
Northwood | 31 March 2012 v Durham MCCU |
no other matches to date | 1 | – | – | 0 | 25 May 2014 v Hampshire |
no other matches to date | 1 | [34][35][36] |
Brunton Memorial Ground |
Radlett | – | – | 0 | 27 May 2013 v Yorkshire |
no other matches to date | 1 | – | – | 0 | [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.
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.