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The College Ground is a cricket ground in the grounds of Cheltenham College, England. Gloucestershire County Cricket Club have played more than 300 first-class and more than 70 List A matches there; it also hosted a Women's One Day International between England and Australia in 2005.
The College Ground first hosted first-class cricket in 1872 when Gloucestershire played Surrey; Gloucestershire won the game by an innings and 37 runs thanks largely to W. G. Grace's match haul of 12-63. In August 1876, Grace became the first man to score a triple century in a county match when he hit 318 not out against Yorkshire; he had made the first triple hundred in all first-class cricket for Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club at Canterbury just one week earlier. [1]
Notes
- ^ "Individual Scores of 300 and More in an Innings in First-Class Cricket in Chronological Order". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Records/Firstclass/Overall/Highest_Player_Scores_Chronological.html. Retrieved 2006-11-08.
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Coordinates: 51°53′28.33″N 2°04′25.94″W / 51.8912028°N 2.0738722°W
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