List of Lancashire County Cricket Club grounds

Old Trafford hosted Lancashire's debut home match in first-class cricket and remains the club's primary ground.

Lancashire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 member clubs of the English County Championship, representing the historic county of Lancashire. The club was established on 12 January 1864 and has competed in first-class cricket from 1865, List A cricket from 1963 and Twenty20 cricket from 2003.^[A] Unlike most professional sports, in which a team usually has a single fixed home ground, county cricket clubs have traditionally used different grounds in various towns and cities within or close to the county for home matches, although the use of minor "out grounds" away from the club's main headquarters has diminished since the 1980s.^[1][2] The Lancashire team have played first class, List A, or Twenty20 matches at thirteen different grounds, although the vast majority of matches have taken place at Old Trafford.

Old Trafford in Manchester has played host to the clubs first home fixtures in all three formats of the game; in first-class cricket in 1865 against Middlesex; in List A cricket in 1963 against Leicestershire; and in Twenty20 cricket against Yorkshire in 2003. Lancashire have played home matches at thirteen grounds, but have played the majority of their home fixtures at Old Trafford, which also holds Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket matches.

Grounds

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Lancashire County Cricket Club for first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. Statistics are complete through to the end of the 2014 season. Only matches played by Lancashire CCC at the grounds are recorded in the table. Matches abandoned without any play occurring are not included.

Name	Location	First-class			List A			Twenty20
		First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches
Old Trafford[3]	Manchester	20 July 1865 v Middlesex	23 September 2014 v Middlesex	1,290^[B][4]	1 May 1963 v Leicestershire	21 August 2014 v Leicestershire	464[5]	19 June 2003 v Yorkshire	1 August 2014 v Glamorgan	57[6]
Wavertree Road Ground	Liverpool	only match: 23 August 1866 v Surrey		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[7][8][n 1]
Station Road	Whalley	only match: 20 June 1867 v Yorkshire		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[9][10][n 2]
Castleton Cricket Club Ground	Rochdale	only match: 15 June 1876 v Kent		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[11][12]
Aigburth Cricket Ground	Liverpool	13 June 1881 v Cambridge University	13 July 2014 v Nottinghamshire	184	17 May 1970 v Northamptonshire	4 September 2010 v Worcestershire	15	only match: 22 June 2009 v Leicestershire		1	[13][14][15][16][n 3]
Stanley Park	Blackpool	31 August 1905 v England XI	17 August 2011 v Worcestershire	88	15 August 1976 v Sussex	13 July 2003 v India A	7	–	–	0	[17][18][19][n 4]
Lune Road	Lancaster	only match: 30 July 1914 v Warwickshire		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[20][21]
Seedhill	Nelson	15 August 1925 v Derbyshire	13 July 1938 v Somerset	9	–	–	0	–	–	0	[22][23]
Alexandra Meadows	Blackburn	11 May 1932 v Glamorgan	5 June 1935 v Glamorgan	4	–	–	0	–	–	0	[24][25]
West Cliff	Preston	1 July 1936 v Gloucestershire	18 June 1952 v Glamorgan	5	–	–	0	–	–	0	[26][27]
Trafalgar Road	Southport	22 August 1959 v Worcestershire	28 August 2013 v Lancashire	41	13 July 1969 v Glamorgan	12 May 1987 v Scotland	5	–	–	0	[28][29][30]
Church Road	Lytham St Annes	14 August 1985 v Northamptonshire	14 July 1998 v Worcestershire	10	–	–	0	–	–	0	[31][32]
Moss Lane	Alderley Edge	–	–	0	only match: 30 July 2008 v Bangladesh A		1	–	–	0	[33][34][n 5]

Notes

A. ^ First-class cricket matches are designed to be contested over multiple days, with each team permitted two innings with no limit to the number of overs in an innings.^[35] List A matches, also known as limited overs or one-day matches, are intended to be completed in a single day and restrict each team to a single innings of between 40 and 60 overs, depending on the specific competition.^[36] Twenty20 matches restrict each team to a single innings of 20 overs.^[37]

B. ^ England have played 80 Test matches at Trent Bridge and the ground has also been used as the home venue for first-class matches by other teams billed as England XIs, the All-England Eleven, The North, Gentlemen of the North, A.Shrewsbury's Australian Team, for a Test Trail match and for one international match not involving England. Only the first-class matches played at the ground by Lancashire are included in the totals.

1. The Gentlemen of the North and the Gentlemen of the South played one first-class match here in 1859, while the first-class North v South fixture was played here twice in 1863 and 1872. Only the first-class matches played at the ground by Lancashire are recorded in the table.
2. The only first-class match played here was the first ever Roses Match between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
3. Liverpool and District played fourteen first-class matches at the ground between 1882–1894. Only the first-class matches played at the ground by Lancashire are recorded in the table. The Lancashire Cricket Board played one List A match here against the Netherlands in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. Only the List A matches played at the ground by Lancashire are recorded in the table.
4. Various teams have played first-class matches at Stanley Park. Only the first-class matches played at the ground by Lancashire are recorded in the table.
5. Moss Lane is located in the adjacent county of Cheshire. Cheshire played a single List A match here against Hampshire in the 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. Only the List A match played at the ground by Lancashire is recorded in the table.

References

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