Allan Border Field
Ground information | |
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Location | Albion, Brisbane, Australia |
Home club | Queensland Bulls Queensland Fire Cricket Australia XI |
Capacity | 6,500 |
Owner | Queensland Government |
Tenants | Fortitude Valley Diehards (1909–95) Queensland Bulls Queensland Fire Cricket Australia XI Southern Stars Australia A National Performance Squad |
End names | |
Crosby Road End Albion Park End | |
International information | |
First WODI | 7 February 1999: Australia v South Africa |
Last WODI | 8 October 2023: Australia v West Indies |
First WT20I | 18 October 2006: Australia v New Zealand |
Last WT20I | 5 October 2023: Australia v West Indies |
As of 8 October 2023 Source: ESPNcricinfo |
Allan Border Field is a cricket ground in the Brisbane suburb of Albion in Queensland. The Australian Cricket Academy has been based at the oval since 2004, using it as a base for the development of elite cricketers throughout Australia.
It was formerly known as Neumann Oval and was home to the
History
Rugby League
First grade rugby league was played at the ground between 1960 and 1995 by the
Cricket
The first
The venue hosted
In 2009, Pakistan A won in a three-match one-day series against Australia A[7] but, lost the subsequent Twenty20 match.[8]
Sheffield Shield was re-introduced in 2010 with a match played between Queensland and
In 2014, two four-day matches were played between Australia A and a touring India A team.[11] Naman Ojha made a double-century in one of the matches. Mitchell Marsh, who scored 211, and Sam Whiteman, who scored 174, put on 371 runs for the eighth wicket, an Australian record and the second-highest eighth-wicket partnership recorded.[12] Both matches resulted in a draw.[13]
On 23 June 2014 it was announced that the field would jointly play host to the initial rounds of the newly sponsored
On 8 July 2015 Victorian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis hit part-time medium-pacer Brendan Smith for six sixes in an over on his way to 121 from 73 balls while playing for the National Performance Squad in a 50-over match against a National Indigenous Squad. Smith, captain of the New South Wales under-17s, also sent down a wide meaning his one over of the match went for 37 runs. The game was a non-sanctioned practice match.[20]
On 23–27 March 2018 the Sheffield Shield final was played at the ground between
On 26–30 September 2020 Allan Border Field hosted Women's Twenty20 International matches between the Australia women's national cricket team and the New Zealand women's national cricket team. Australia won the series 2–1 with New Zealand winning the final match of the tournament.[21] The matches were originally scheduled to be held at Cazalys Stadium in Cairns, however, the matches were relocated to the Allan Border Field due to the prevailing COVID-19 circumstances and logistical issues at the time.[22]
On 15–18 April 2021 Allan Border Field hosted the Sheffield Shield final match between the Queensland and New South Wales men's cricket teams. Queensland had won the match by an innings and 33 runs. Over 10,000 people attended across three and a half days of cricket, with hundreds of fans having to be turned away when the cricket ground reached its maximum capacity on day two.[23][24]
Records
First Class cricket
This table contains the top five highest scores made by a batsman in a single innings.
Season | Player | Team | Score | Opponent |
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2005/06 | Marlon Samuels | West Indies | 257 | Queensland
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2002/03 | Martin Love | Queensland |
250 | England XI |
2000/01 | Ricky Ponting | Tasmania |
233 | Queensland
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2014 | Naman Ojha | India A | 219* | Australia A |
2014 | Mitchell Marsh | Australia A | 211 | India A |
Last Updated 10 July 2014.[25]
List A cricket
This table contains the top five highest scores made by a batsman in List A matches.
Season | Player | Team | Score | Opponent |
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2009 | Tim Paine | Australia A | 134 | Pakistan A |
2014 | Joe Burns | Queensland | 115 | South Australia |
2014 | Jonathan Wells | Tasmania | 110 | Victoria |
2009 | Umar Akmal | Pakistan A | 104 | Australia A |
2009 | Khalid Latif | Pakistan A | 100 | Australia A |
Last Updated 15 July 2015.[26]
National Cricket Centre
Cricket Australia officially opened the new National Cricket Centre on 12 November 2013. The new facility replaced the Centre of Excellence. The National Cricket Centre features state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor training facilities and equipment to enhance the development of Australian cricketers.[27] The street that the Allan Border Field is on was also renamed in honour of former Australian captain Greg Chappell.[28]
See also
References
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