North Marine Road
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North Marine Road is a cricket ground in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England [1][2]. It is known as the home of the Scarborough Cricket Festival and hosts Yorkshire County Cricket Club for a series of fixtures in the second half of the English cricket season every year. Its current capacity stands at 11,500, while its record attendance is the 22,946 who watched Yorkshire play Derbyshire in 1947. Bowling alternates between the Pavilion end and the Trafalgar Square end.
It is a ground with a long history. Cricket was first staged at the ground in 1863, when tenancy of a field on North Marine Road was obtained, the game's having already been played at Castle Hill in Scarborough since 1849. Yorkshire has played there since 1876, when MCC beat Yorkshire by 7 wickets. The first County Championship game was held there in 1896, when Yorkshire beat Leicestershire by 162 runs. With the demise of the other 'out' grounds, Scarborough is the only regular venue for county cricket in Yorkshire other than Headingley, Leeds.
The end-of-season Scarborough Festival, staged to capitalise on the large numbers of Yorkshire tourists in the seaside resort, saw touring teams, county teams and Yorkshire play in a mixture of friendly, championship and one-day cricket. The Fenner Trophy, a one-day competition featuring four counties, ran from 1971 to 1996 under the names of various sponsors. The centenary of the festival was celebrated in 1986, with Sir Len Hutton as president.
The ground has also staged two one-day internationals, pitting England against the West Indies and New Zealand in 1976 and 1978. In 2005, Yorkshire signed a new deal with the ground authorities which ensured that the county would continue to play there until 2010.
The ground is situated close to the sea and features a raised cricket pavilion built at a cost of £2150 in 1895. A new seating enclosure was added in 1902 and further extended over the next five years. A concrete stand was added in 1926, at a cost of £6,700 and in 1956 a new West Stand was erected, costing £16,000. More recently, the Jack Knowles Building was completed in 1995 at a cost of £210,000, new all-weather nets and a press box were constructed in 1997 for £50,000 and the enclosure and tea rooms were refurbished in 1998 for £95,000.
The ground is known as a fast-scoring outfield with a pitch which is often receptive to spin. Scarborough Cricket Club[3], nicknamed "the Gulls" after the seabirds which throng the area, use the ground as their home throughout the season when it is not required by Yorkshire CCC. The ground hosts Senior Premier League matches while ECB representative games, under-19 and ladies' Test matches have also been held there in recent years.
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