Antigua Recreation Ground

Antigua Recreation Ground
Antigua Recreation Ground, June 2003
Data
place	Saint John's , Antigua , Antigua and Barbuda Factory Road
Coordinates	17 ° 7 '20.5 "  N , 61 ° 50' 20.5"  W Coordinates: 17 ° 7 '20.5 "  N , 61 ° 50' 20.5"  W.
start of building	1978
First game	February 22, 1978
surface	Natural grass
capacity	9,000 seats
Societies)
Antigua and Barbuda national soccer team West Indies cricket team
Events
Cricket World Cup 2007 Soccer Caribbean Championship 2010, 2nd qualifying round

The Antigua Recreation Ground , the national stadium of Antigua and Barbuda , is located in St. John's on the island of Antigua . The Antigua and Barbuda national soccer team and the West Indies cricket team use the pitch.

Cricket at the Antigua Recreation Ground

The first match was played on February 22, 1978 as One-Day International . The West Indies faced Australia . From March 28 to April 1, 1981, the West Indies and England faced each other in the first test match .

Viv Richards , Antigua's most famous cricketer, managed the fastest test match century with only 56 balls in 1986 at the Antigua Recreation Ground in a game against England . Brian Lara , batsman of the West Indies, managed a record of 375 runs in a test match innings in a 1994 game against England in the same stadium . In 2004 he improved the record held by the Australian Matthew Hayden to 400 *, again in a test match against England.

After the construction of the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium , no further test matches were initially held in the Antigua Recreation Ground. However, after the second test match between the West Indies and England, which was held in Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, had to be canceled on February 13, 2009, a third test match in the series took place in the Antigua Recreation Ground on February 15, 2009.

See also

• Cricket World Cup 2007
• List of test cricket stadiums

Web links

Commons : Antigua Recreation Ground  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ESPN-cricinfo: Antigua Recreation Ground
• FootballFans.eu: Antigua Recreation Ground

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ESPN-crincinfo: Records - Test matches - Batting records - Fastest hundreds
   Fastest Tests Centuries and 50s ( Memento of March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ * = not out, d. H. not eliminated at the end of the innings.
3. ↑ BBC Sport: Lara sets test record ; Article dated April 12, 2004.
4. ↑ BBC Sports: West Indies v England 2nd Test ; Report dated February 13, 2009