| Southchurch Park | |
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 Southchurch Park lake | |
  Location in Essex | |
| Location | Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England |
| Area | 12 hectares (30 acres) |
Southchurch Park is a recreational park in Southchurch, a suburb in the city of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The park is 12 hectares (30 acres) in area and contains sports pitches, including a cricket ground formerly used by Essex County Cricket Club, formal gardens, a boating lake and a café.
Cricket ground
| Ground information | |||
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| Location | Southend, Essex | ||
| Establishment | 1906 (first recorded match) | ||
| Capacity | 6,000 | ||
| End names | |||
| Northumberland Crescent End Boating Lake End | |||
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| As of 12 September 2010 Source: Ground profile | |||
The first recorded cricket match on the ground was in 1906, when Essex County Cricket Club played their inaugural first-class match there, beating Leicestershire by five wickets. Essex played 130 first-class matches at Southchurch Park between 1906 and 2004, playing their final first-class match there against Nottinghamshire in the 2004 County Championship.
In addition, the ground has also hosted List-A matches, the first of which came in the 1977 John Player League and saw Essex play Middlesex. From 1977 to 2004, the ground held 28 List-A matches, the last of which saw Essex play Northamptonshire in the 2004 totesport League.
The ground has also held 19 Second XI fixtures between 1972 and 1996 for the Essex Second XI in the Second XI Championship and Second XI Trophy.
The ground has hosted tourist matches, with the highest ever number of runs scored on one day occurred at Southchurch Park in a match between Australia and Essex on the 14 May 1948, when Australia scored 721 all out.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Southend-on-Sea and EMT Cricket Club.
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The cricket pavilion
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The cricket ground
References
- Neal-Goddard, Sorrell. "Southchurch Park". www.southend.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- First-Class Matches played on Southchurch Park
- List-A Matches played on Southchurch Park
- Second XI Championship Matches played on Southchurch Park
- Second XI Trophy Matches played on Southchurch Park
- N. D. McWhirter (1988). Guinness Book of Records 1989. Guinness Publishing. p. 234. ISBN 9780851128788.
- Southend-on-Sea and EMT Cricket Club
External links
- Southchurch Park on CricketArchive
- Southchurch Park on Cricinfo
51°31′58″N 0°44′08″E / 51.53291°N 0.73547°E / 51.53291; 0.73547
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