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Aigburth Cricket Ground in Liverpool, England, is the home of Liverpool Cricket Club. The club was founded in 1807 and is the oldest amateur sports club in Merseyside.[2] The ground hosted its maiden first-class cricket match in 1881, a fixture between Lancashire and Cambridge University.[3]

Aigburth Cricket Ground

Ground information
Location	Aigburth, Liverpool
Establishment	1881
Capacity	3,000[1]
End names
Aigburth Road Riversdale Road
International information
Only WODI	18 July 1973:  International XI v  Trinidad and Tobago
As of 23 May 2012 Source: CricketArchive

Designed by Thomas Harnett Harrison and built in 1880, the pavilion is the oldest remaining at a first-class cricket ground.[4][5] The first Women's Cricket World Cup was held in England in 1973.[6] During the tournament Aigburth hosted its only Women's One Day International, a match between International XI Women and Trinidad and Tobago Women.[7] The West Indies cricket team toured England in 1984 and played a tour match against Lancashire at Aigburth. A 7,633-strong crowd watched the match.[5] Lancashire lost by 56 runs, and Gordon Greenidge scored 186 while opening the batting.[8] The innings was the second of three one-day centuries scored at the ground and remains the highest score in the format at Aigburth, and Greenidge's highest score.[9][10]

While Old Trafford Cricket Ground was undergoing a renovation in 2011, Lancashire played more cricket at Aigburth, playing five matches at the ground.[2] The move away from Old Trafford coincided with Lancashire winning the County Championship for the first time since 1950, and Lancashire won four out of their six matches at Aigburth.[11] The ground has hosted 198 first-class matches to 2014,[3] eighteen List A matches to 2017[12] and, as confirmed by the Wisden and Playfair annuals, two Twenty20 matches to 2017.

Football

Aigburth Cricket Ground hosted an international exhibition game between England and Ireland on 24 February 1883, which England won 7–0.[13]

Statistics

First-class

Category	Information
Highest team score	Gloucestershire (514 v. Lancashire, 1932)
Lowest team score	Glamorgan (22 v. Lancashire, 1924)
Best batting performance	Wally Hammond (264 runs for Gloucestershire v. Lancashire, 1932)
Best bowling performance	Alex Kennedy (9/33 for Hampshire v. Lancashire, 1920)

List A

Category	Information
Highest team score	West Indies (297/6 in 55 overs v. Lancashire, 1984)
Lowest team score	No team has been bowled out for less than 100 on this ground
Best batting performance	Gordon Greenidge (186 runs for West Indies v. Lancashire, 1984)
Best bowling performance	Sajid Mahmood (5/16 for Lancashire v. Sri Lanka A, 2007)

References

Further reading

External links

• Cricinfo Website - Ground Page
• Cricket Archive page

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