Beausejour Stadium
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Beausejour Stadium is a cricket ground located near Gros Islet, Saint Lucia. It was completed in 2002 and currently accommodates 12,000 spectators. It hosted the first day-night cricket match to be held in the West Indies between West Indies A and England A on 10 March 2006 and the first One Day International day-night cricket match in the West Indies between Zimbabwe and the West Indies on May 10th, 2006. It is named after the nearby Beausejour hills.[1]
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[edit] Regional Cricket
Beausejour Stadium is a home venue for the Windward Islands cricket team
[edit] International Cricket
Beausejour Stadium is a home venue for the West Indies.
- First One-day International: West Indies vs New Zealand on June 8, 2002.
- First Test match: West Indies vs Sri Lanka on 20-24 June, 2003.
[edit] 2007 Cricket World Cup
Beausejour Stadium will be one of the venues for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, by which time the capacity will have been expanded to 20,000. It will host Group C matches between New Zealand, England, Kenya and Canada as well as one of the semi-finals.
[edit] See also
| Venues of the 2007 Cricket World Cup West Indies |
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| Warner Park (St. Kitts and Nevis) • Queen's Park Oval (Port of Spain) • Beausejour Stadium (Saint Lucia) • Sabina Park (Kingston) • Sir Vivian Richards Stadium (Antigua and Barbuda) • Providence Stadium (Guyana) • Kensington Oval (Bridgetown) |
