Botanical Gardens Cricket Ground
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Botanical Gardens Cricket Ground was a cricket
ground in Manchester
. The ground was loacted adjacent to Manchester Botanical Garden. The ground was on land owned by Sir Humphrey de Trafford, who allowed Manchester Cricket Club to lease the ground.
The first recorded match on the ground was in 1848, when Manchester Cricket Club played Sheffield Cricket Club in the grounds first first-class
match. The following season pre-county club Lancashire played pre-county club Yorkshire. In 1851, pre-county club Lancashire played their second and final first-class match at the ground in a repeat of the previous first-class fixture there involving. Manchester Cricket Club played 2 further first-class matches at the ground in 1852 and then 1854, both coming against Sheffield Cricket Club.
The final recorded match held on the ground came in 1856 when Manchester Cricket Club played Rugby. Shortly after the ground was developed for the 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition
. Later, the location of the ground became a motorcycle speedway
venue before closing in 1982. Today the location of the ground is covered by the White City Retail Centre.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
ground in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
. The ground was loacted adjacent to Manchester Botanical Garden. The ground was on land owned by Sir Humphrey de Trafford, who allowed Manchester Cricket Club to lease the ground.
The first recorded match on the ground was in 1848, when Manchester Cricket Club played Sheffield Cricket Club in the grounds first first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
match. The following season pre-county club Lancashire played pre-county club Yorkshire. In 1851, pre-county club Lancashire played their second and final first-class match at the ground in a repeat of the previous first-class fixture there involving. Manchester Cricket Club played 2 further first-class matches at the ground in 1852 and then 1854, both coming against Sheffield Cricket Club.
The final recorded match held on the ground came in 1856 when Manchester Cricket Club played Rugby. Shortly after the ground was developed for the 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition
Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857
The Art Treasures of Great Britain was an exhibition of fine art held in Manchester, England, from 5 May to 17 October 1857. It remains the largest art exhibition to be held in the UK, possibly in the world, with over 16,000 works on display...
. Later, the location of the ground became a motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...
venue before closing in 1982. Today the location of the ground is covered by the White City Retail Centre.
External links
- Botanical Gardens Cricket Ground on CricketArchiveCricketArchiveCricketArchive is a website that aims to provide a comprehensive archive of records relating to the sport of cricket. It claims to be the most comprehensive cricket database on the internet, including scorecards for all matches of first-class cricket , List A cricket , Women's Test cricket and...
- Botanical Gardens Cricket Ground on CricinfoCricinfoESPNcricinfo is believed to be the largest cricket-related website on the World Wide Web. Content includes news,articles, live scorecards,live text commentary and a comprehensive and searchable database called 'StatsGuru', of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present...