Oakes Oval
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Full name | Oakes Oval |
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Location | Lismore, New South Wales |
Type | Sports venue |
Capacity | 10,000–12,000[1][2] |
Record attendance | 8,612 24/02/07: NRL Pre-Season: Parramatta Eels v Gold Coast Titans[3] |
Field shape | Oval |
Surface | grass |
Opened | 1934 (first recorded match) |
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New South Wales cricket team (Sheffield Shield) (1979–2006) New South Wales Country Eagles (NRC) (2014–present) | |
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As of 1 September 2020 Source: CricketArchive |
Oakes Oval (known prior to 1957 as the Recreation Ground) is a cricket ground in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. The first recorded match on the ground came in 1934 when the Richmond River Colts played the New South Wales Colts.[4] The ground held matches in the 1978 and 1979 World Series Cricket.[4] It held its first first-class match in 1979 when New South Wales played Queensland in the Sheffield Shield. The next first-class match to be staged there came in 1991 when New South Wales played the touring Indians. A further first-class match was held there in the 2006 Pura Cup between New South Wales and Victoria.[5] A single List A match was played there in 1992 when New South Wales played the touring West Indians.[6]
A single Women's One Day International was played there in 1993 when the Australia Women's Cricket Team played the New Zealand Women's Cricket Team.[7]
Other sports to be played at the ground include both rugby union and rugby league, as well as soccer.[1] Oakes Oval is also one of the home grounds for the NSW Country Eagles team that plays in the National Rugby Championship.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ground profile: Oakes Oval". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "Oakes Oval". Austadiums. 25 January 2010. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ "Oakes Oval Crowds | Austadiums".
- ^ a b "Other matches played on Oakes Oval, Lismore". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played on Oakes Oval, Lismore". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "List A Matches played on Oakes Oval, Lismore". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "Women's One-Day International Matches played on Oakes Oval, Lismore". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ Jackson, Ed (20 August 2014). "Australian rugby set for provincial reboot". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ^ "Fixtures draw". Australian Rugby. 16 July 2014. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
External links
[edit]- Oakes Oval at ESPNcricinfo
- Oakes Oval at CricketArchive