Taunton Vale Sports Club Ground

Taunton Vale Sports Club Ground
Ground information
Location Staplegrove, Taunton, Somerset
Establishment 2001
Domestic team information
Taunton Cricket Club (2002[1]–present)
Somerset Second XI (2004[2]–present)
Somerset v MCCUs (2005[3]–present)
As of 16 January 2015
Source: CricketArchive

Taunton Vale Sports Club Ground (usually referred to as Taunton Vale)[4] is a cricket ground located in Taunton, Somerset. The ground, which was completed in 2001 (with the first playing season in 2002), is the regular home venue of both Somerset County Cricket Club's Second XI and Taunton Cricket Club.[5] Somerset also hold many of their games against MCC Universities teams at the ground, which have so far included two first-class matches, in 2012 and 2015.[6]

The ground has two cricket fields and a pavilion.

First-class cricket

Somerset County Cricket Club hosted the inaugural first-class match at the ground in a 3-day game (31 March to 2 April 2012) against Cardiff MCCU,[4] which featured a county record partnership of 450 for the second wicket between Nick Compton and James Hildreth.[4] The game was also the first-class debut for Cardiff MCCU.[4]

The second first-class match at Taunton Vale took place from 2 to 4 April 2015, when Somerset played Durham MCCU.[6]

Women's international

Taunton Vale hosted a single Women's Twenty20 International match in 2011, between Australia and New Zealand.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ CricketArchive
  2. ↑ CricketArchive
  3. ↑ CricketArchive
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2013) p 607
  5. ↑ Taunton Cricket Club website
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cricket Archive Taunton Vale: First-class matches played at
  7. ↑ "Women's International Twenty-20 Matches played on Taunton Vale Sports Club Ground, Taunton (1)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 August 2011.

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Coordinates: 51°01′55″N 3°07′00″W / 51.03194°N 3.11667°W