It was much needed as the venue had suffered from underinvestment and had a feeling of decay about it. Travel Tube - Oval station Northern line is yards from the ground Train - Vauxhall station on all major routes to and from Waterloo is about yards away Car - Parking is limited generally to four-hour meters and expensive near the ground and in surrounding streets.
Some local schools open their car parks but these are also not cheap Map here this will link to streetmap. To help make this website better, to improve and personalize your experience and for advertising purposes, are you happy to accept cookies and other technologies. ESPN Cricinfo. Profile This is where it all began. Notes Travel Tube - Oval station Northern line is yards from the ground Train - Vauxhall station on all major routes to and from Waterloo is about yards away Car - Parking is limited generally to four-hour meters and expensive near the ground and in surrounding streets.
On 10th of March , the Duchy leased the land for the purpose of a cricket ground. In the year of , about 20, spectators gathered at The Oval for the first game of the Aboriginal cricket tour of England.
Oval hosted the first Test match in England in between the teams of the England and Australia, and hence, became the second ground to stage a Test, after the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The stadium has hosted matches of the , , , and World Cups. It has also hosted five of the fifteen matches in the ICC Champions Trophy, including the finals. The ground hosted its hundredth Test match, against South Africa, on 27th of July, In the Oval hosted the first 'Test Match' to be held in England since the series began in Melbourne in WG Grace, scored the first ever century for the home side.
He was also joined in the team by his two brothers, Fred and EM, the first and last time three brothers have represented England. A disastrous performance by England at the same ground, two years later, led to a mock obituary and "the Ashes":- see further detail below.
The August Oval "Test" was very exciting, with the Australians all out for only 63 runs in their first innings. But their ace bowler Fred Spofforth ensured an English collapse when he took 14 English wickets for only 90 runs. Their equally ace wicketkeeper, Jack Blackham, kept the ball as a souvenir and it is now on show at the Melbourne Cricket Ground:- see photo on right.
The media were just as cruel then as they are now and the satirical magazine "Punch" asked whether the English team had "want of devil, coolness, nerve and backbone". The English team travelled to Australia the following winter by ship of course - and it was summer in Australia and their captain, the Honourable Ivo Bligh, referred to "the ashes" in a speech around the time of their first match.
This reference was picked up by the ladies of the Clarke family's estate where the tourists stayed that Christmas. After a friendly match against the men in their family they presented some ashes of what it is not known to the tourists who then took them with them on their travels and back to England.
Ivo Bligh returned to Australia later in to marry the Clarke's music teacher, Florence Murphy, one of the ladies who had presented the ashes. In , it staged England's first international football match, versus Scotland. It hosted the first FA Cup final in , as well as those between and In , it held both the England v. Wales and England v. Scotland rugby international matches and, in , rugby's first varsity match.
The stadium has hosted matches of the , , , and World Cups. It has also hosted five of the fifteen matches in the ICC Champions Trophy, including the finals. The Oval ground was not always used for cricket matches, during World War II the Oval was supposed to be used as a prisoner of war camp but instead was used as a place to house searchlights and anti-aircraft weapons.
In , the current stands were demolished, to be replaced by a single new and much larger stand named after Peter May. May led Surrey to their sixth and seventh consecutive County Championships in and and also captained England from to , winning the Ashes in
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