Smallbone Park Explained

Ground Name:Smallbone Park
Country:New Zealand
Location:Rotorua, New Zealand
Establishment:1938 (first recorded match)
Club1:Northern Districts
Year1:1969 - 2003
Date:3 November
Year:2011
Source:https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/21/1461.html Ground profile

Smallbone Park is a cricket ground in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1938 when Bay of Plenty played Waiapu.[1]

The ground held its first first-class match during the 1968/69 Plunket Shield when Northern Districts played Otago. Between the 1968/69 and 1995/96 seasons, seventeen first-class matches were held there, the last of which saw Northern Districts play Central Districts in the 1995/96 Shell Trophy.[2] The first List A match held there came when Northern Districts played Auckland in the 1984/85 Shell Cup. Northern Districts played six further List A matches at the ground, the last of which came in the 2002/03 State Shield against Otago.[3]

A single Women's One Day International was played there on 25 February 1995, when Australia Women played India Women in the New Zealand Women's Centenary Tournament.[4]

External links

-38.1544°N 176.2316°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Smallbone Park, Rotorua. CricketArchive. 20 August 2022.
  2. Web site: First-Class Matches played on Smallbone Park, Rotorua. CricketArchive. 3 November 2011.
  3. Web site: List A Matches played on Smallbone Park, Rotorua. CricketArchive. 3 November 2011.
  4. Web site: Women's One-Day International Matches played on Smallbone Park, Rotorua. CricketArchive. 3 November 2011.