What county/international grounds have you been to?

[kingstonj1]

Ripping of a thread on kim jones, but no cricket today so interesting to see where others have been.

[essexfan548]

I've been to nearly all first class grounds now including some that are no longer used e.g. Folkestone, Chalkwell Park

The ones I've still to do are Swansea, Merchant Taylors School, Beckenham and Headingley.

Sadly the 'new' Hastings ground is not going to be used in 2022 so that's two 'lost' in one town alone.

[Valentines Park]

Beckenham is pretty well appointed these days.

Shame Essex can't see fit to have a ground like that in outer London.

[smandlej]

Have been to most of the old Essex grounds from days gone by.  Cardiff Arms Park, Swansea, Port Talbot and Ebbw Vale - had cricket-loving friends living in Cardiff, met them at Lords at the final of the Gillette Cup in 1963.  Apart from those, very few: Old Trafford, Chester-le-Street, Canterbury, the Oval.  Think there was also a Middlesex outground, but don't remember which one.  I think Steve had only been to Old Trafford and maybe Aigburth before we met (he was born in Lancaster).

Lynda

[Slogger]

Not as many as I would like! My bucket list includes watching Essex away at every other county. I'm missing quite a few of those.

The nicest three grounds I have attended are Tunbridge Wells, Arundel and Colchester. I was also quite impressed by Southgate.

I did attend the new Hastings ground when Sussex played the Zimbabwe touring team there in around 2000. Murray Goodwin got a very quick 50 for the tourists, no wonder Sussex signed him! My other quirky one is seeing Gordon Greenidge playing for Greenock during a work trip to Scotland in 1990. Not first class though!

[kingstonj1]

I think my nicest would be Arundel, Wormsley (Unicorns friendly), Chesterfield and Exmouth (for novelty).

[essexfan548]

I think my nicest would be Arundel, Wormsley (Unicorns friendly), Chesterfield and Exmouth (for novelty).

Is Exmouth first class? I saw a Unicorns match there ...

[kingstonj1]

No, but is that a condition?! As long as a county playing i'm sure that counts! Also suggestions Somerset have played there as a home fixture in years gone by.

I saw Essex play in the C&G (i think) first round, over 2 days due to rain. Shep was umpiring as he was local. One of his last games i reckon.

[kingstonj1]

Looked it up no shep umpiring...think he did the MoM presentation at ed though, he was definetley there!

[essexfan548]

No, but is that a condition?! As long as a county playing i'm sure that counts! Also suggestions Somerset have played there as a home fixture in years gone by.

I saw Essex play in the C&G (i think) first round, over 2 days due to rain. Shep was umpiring as he was local. One of his last games i reckon.

OK so where do we stop? Any ground where a first class county has played?

[Caughtright]

Mannofield, home of Aberdeenshire, where we lived for 31 years (n.b. not in oil etc.), a ground also used by Scotland - even more attractive than Valentine's Park, Ilford, where I was born and bred ...

[Perov]

Of the more obscure grounds (or no longer used) I've been to Folkstone, Bath, the old Hastings, Shenley, Radlett, and Tring.
All the usual ones like Lords, Oval etc, but the best have to be Tunbridge Wells, Arundel, and at number one Wormsley.
It was there I saw Essex play the Unicorns in April, and it was probably the coldest day I have ever watched cricket! Luckily there was a Yorkshire tea van, giving away free tea.

[Valentines Park]

Is Radlett that obscure?

Middx played most of their games there this season.

[kingstonj1]

No, but is that a condition?! As long as a county playing i'm sure that counts! Also suggestions Somerset have played there as a home fixture in years gone by.

I saw Essex play in the C&G (i think) first round, over 2 days due to rain. Shep was umpiring as he was local. One of his last games i reckon.

OK so where do we stop? Any ground where a first class county has played?

its not a competition! but yes that sounds like a good parameter otherwise will list Terling, Little Baddow etc!

[kingstonj1]

Of the more obscure grounds (or no longer used) I've been to Folkstone, Bath, the old Hastings, Shenley, Radlett, and Tring.
All the usual ones like Lords, Oval etc, but the best have to be Tunbridge Wells, Arundel, and at number one Wormsley.
It was there I saw Essex play the Unicorns in April, and it was probably the coldest day I have ever watched cricket! Luckily there was a Yorkshire tea van, giving away free tea.

That was the game i was at with my dear departed spaniel who wouldnt stop barking for some unknown reason so didnt hang around too long, especially given the aforementioned freezing cold and limits on where you could watch from!