 The pavilion of the Nevill Ground | |||||||
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| Location | Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent | ||||||
| Coordinates | 51°07′19″N 0°16′05″E / 51.122°N 0.268°E | ||||||
| Establishment | 1898 | ||||||
| Capacity | 6,000[1] | ||||||
| Owner | Tunbridge Wells Borough Council | ||||||
| Architect | CH Strange | ||||||
| Tenants | Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club Tunbridge Wells Tennis Club Tunbridge Wells Hockey Club | ||||||
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| Pavilion End Railway End | |||||||
| International information | |||||||
| Only ODI | 18 June 1983: India v  Zimbabwe | ||||||
| Only WODI | 24 July 1993: Australia v  West Indies | ||||||
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| As of 5 September 2020 Source: CricInfo | |||||||
The Nevill Ground is a cricket ground at Royal Tunbridge Wells in the English county of Kent. It is owned by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and is used by Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club in the summer months and by Tunbridge Wells Hockey Club in the winter. It was opened in 1898 and was first used by Kent County Cricket Club in 1901. Until 2019, the county held the Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week on the ground annually, despite a suffragette arson attack which destroyed the pavilion in 1913.
As well as hosting over 180 of Kent's first-class cricket matches, the ground played host to a single One Day International during the 1983 Cricket World Cup and was used for one match during the 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup.
The ground is known for being one of the more picturesque county grounds in England and particularly for having rhododendron bushes around the perimeter.[2][3] It is located around 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of the centre of Tunbridge Wells in Hawkenbury.[2][4]
- ^ Kent coach Paul Farbrace hails Tunbridge Wells support, BBC Sport, 10 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
- ^ a b Nevill Ground, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
- ^ Hogwood C (2019) Kent Cricket Festival: Director of cricket Paul Downton discusses Tunbridge Wells tradition, Kent Online, 14 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
- ^ How to find us Archived 31 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine, Tunbridge Wells Hockey Club. Retrieved 2018-03-11.