| Alexandra Park Pietermaritzburg Oval | |||||
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| Ground information | |||||
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| Location | Pietermaritzburg | ||||
| Coordinates | 29°36′37.17″S 30°22′50.97″E / 29.6103250°S 30.3808250°E | ||||
| Establishment | 1888 | ||||
| Capacity | 12,000 | ||||
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| Duzi End Hulett End | |||||
| International information | |||||
| First ODI | 12 February 2003: Bangladesh v  Sri Lanka | ||||
| Last ODI | 23 February 2003: India v  Namibia | ||||
| First WT20I | 18 May 2019: South Africa v  Pakistan | ||||
| Last WT20I | 19 May 2019: South Africa v Pakistan | ||||
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| As of 7 September 2020 Source: cricinfo | |||||
City Oval (formerly Alexandra Park[1] and sometimes called the Pietermaritzburg Oval),[2] is a multi-purpose stadium in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The 12,000 capacity stadium is currently used predominantly for cricket matches, with the ground being used by KwaZulu-Natal Inland men's and women's teams, KwaZulu-Natal and Dolphins (who also play at Kingsmead, Durban),[3][4] and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. It is one of only three first-class cricket grounds in the world to have a tree within the boundary ropes (the others being St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury, United Kingdom[5][6] and VRA Cricket Ground in Amstelveen, Netherlands),[7] and any cricketer that scores a century or takes a five-wicket haul in a match at the City Oval gets to plant a tree at the ground.[8] The City Oval Pavilion is based on the design of Queen's Park cricket ground in Chesterfield, United Kingdom.[9]
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