Ray Mitchell Oval

Ray Mitchell Oval is a cricket

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 Mackay

Mackay, Queensland

Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....

, Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The first recorded match on the ground came when Queensland Country played the touring West Indians in 1968. In 1978 the ground held a single World Series Cricket

World Series Cricket

World Series Cricket was a break away professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 and organised by Kerry Packer for his Australian television network, Nine Network. The matches ran in opposition to established international cricket...

 match. The ground held its first two List A matches in 1988 when Queensland played the touring Pakistanis on 3rd and 4th of December 1988. The ground was selected to hold a single One Day International match during the 1992 Cricket World Cup

1992 Cricket World Cup

-New Zealand:-Round Robin Stage:Co-hosts New Zealand proved the surprise packet of the tournament, winning their first seven games to finish on top of the table after the round robin. The other hosts, Australia, were one of the pre-tournament favourites but lost their first two matches. They...

, with India and Sri Lanka playing a match there on 28 February. The match was abandoned after two balls due to rain, despite the best efforts of groundstaff who attempted to dry the outfield. The only 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 to be played there to date came in 1995 when Queensland played the touring Sri Lankans, with the match ending in a 273 run victory for Queensland. A further List A match was played there in October 2011 between Queensland and Tasmania in the 2011/12 Ryobi One Day Cup.

External links

• Ray Mitchell Oval at ESPNcricinfo
• Ray Mitchell Oval at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
  CricketArchive 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...