Oakes Oval

Oakes Oval

OCG
Full name	Oakes Oval
Location	Lismore, New South Wales
Type	Sports venue
Capacity	10,000–12,000[1][2]
Record attendance	8,612 24/02/07: NRL Pre-Season: Parramatta Eels v Gold Coast Titans[3]
Field shape	Oval
Surface	grass
Opened	1934 (first recorded match)
Tenants
New South Wales cricket team (Sheffield Shield) (1979–2006) New South Wales Country Eagles (NRC) (2014–present)
Ground information
International information
Only WODI	13 January 1993:  Australia v  New Zealand
As of 1 September 2020 Source: CricketArchive

Oakes Oval (known prior to 1957 as the Recreation Ground) is a cricket ground in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. The first recorded match on the ground came in 1934 when the Richmond River Colts played the New South Wales Colts.^[4] The ground held matches in the 1978 and 1979 World Series Cricket.^[4] It held its first first-class match in 1979 when New South Wales played Queensland in the Sheffield Shield. The next first-class match to be staged there came in 1991 when New South Wales played the touring Indians. A further first-class match was held there in the 2006 Pura Cup between New South Wales and Victoria.^[5] A single List A match was played there in 1992 when New South Wales played the touring West Indians.^[6]

A single Women's One Day International was played there in 1993 when the Australia Women's Cricket Team played the New Zealand Women's Cricket Team.^[7]

Other sports to be played at the ground include both rugby union and rugby league, as well as soccer.^[1] Oakes Oval is also one of the home grounds for the NSW Country Eagles team that plays in the National Rugby Championship.^[8][9]

References

1. "Ground profile: Oakes Oval". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
2. "Oakes Oval". Austadiums. 25 January 2010. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
3. "Oakes Oval Crowds | Austadiums".
4. "Other matches played on Oakes Oval, Lismore". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
5. "First-Class Matches played on Oakes Oval, Lismore". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
6. "List A Matches played on Oakes Oval, Lismore". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
7. "Women's One-Day International Matches played on Oakes Oval, Lismore". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
8. Jackson, Ed (20 August 2014). "Australian rugby set for provincial reboot". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
9. "Fixtures draw". Australian Rugby. 16 July 2014. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.

External links

• Oakes Oval at ESPNcricinfo
• Oakes Oval at CricketArchive

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