Ray Mitchell Oval

Ray Mitchell Oval
Ground information
Location Mackay, Australia
Establishment 1968 (first recorded match)
Capacity 10,000
End names
n/a
International information
First ODI February 28, 1992:
 India v  Sri Lanka
Team information
Queensland (1988 - present)
As of December 7, 2015
Source: Ground profile

Ray Mitchell Oval (also known as Harrup Park) is a cricket ground in the city of Mackay, Queensland, Australia.

Domestic matches

The first recorded match on the ground occurred when Queensland Country XI played against the touring West Indians in 1968.[1] In 1978, the ground staged a single World Series Cricket "Country Cavaliers" match.[1]

The ground held its first two List A one day matches in 1988, when Queensland played the touring Pakistanis on 3 and 4 December 1988.[2]

The only first-class match to be played there to date came in 1995 when Queensland played against the touring Sri Lankans,[3] with the match ending in a 273 run victory for Queensland.[4] A further List A match was played there in October 2011 between Queensland and Tasmania in the 2011/12 Ryobi One Day Cup.[2]

International matches

The ground was selected to hold a single One Day International match during the 1992 Cricket World Cup, with India and Sri Lanka playing a match against each other on the 28th of February.[5] The match was abandoned after only playing two balls, due to rain, despite the best efforts of the groundstaff to dry the outfield.[6]

Sri Lankan fast bowler Champaka Ramanayake and Indian batsman Krishnamachari Srikanth hold the unusual distinctions of being the only international bowler to have ever bowled in this match and the only international batsman of scoring the only run ever scored in international cricket here. The match was washed out after Champaka's first two deliveries.[7] This was also debut match of Ajay Jadeja.

ODIs Hosted

Team (A) Team (B) Winner Margin Year
 India  Sri Lanka No result 1992

References

  1. 1 2 "Other matches played on Ray Mitchell Oval, Mackay". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  2. 1 2 "List A Matches played on Ray Mitchell Oval, Mackay". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  3. "First-Class Matches played on Ray Mitchell Oval, Mackay". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  4. "Queensland v Sri Lankans, 1995/96". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  5. "One-Day International Matches played on Ray Mitchell Oval, Mackay". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  6. "India v Sri Lanka, 1992 Cricket World Cup". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  7. "India vs Sri Lanka". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 11 Dec 2011.

Coordinates: 21°09′34.03″S 149°11′10.58″E / 21.1594528°S 149.1862722°E / -21.1594528; 149.1862722

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