Edgbaston Cricket Ground or Edgbaston Stadium is a Cricket ground in the Birmingham City, England. It is the 4th biggest Stadium of England after Lords, Manchester, and The Oval. Edgbaston host around 25000 spectators at a time in the Stadium. It is also the home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club and used for International tests, ODI and T20Is matches as well. Many T20 League matches have been played here, it has domestic T20 Final hosting record in England. Birmingham Stadium once hosted the Final of ICC event, which was ICC Champions Trophy 2013 Final.
Here it the complete information about the Edgbaston Ground
City: Birmingham, England
Address: Edgbaston Stadium, Edgbaston Road, Birmingham, West Midlands B5 7QU
Established: 1882
Capacity: 24,803
Floodlights: Installed in 2011
Curator: Gary Barwell
Local time zone (UTC +0100)
End names:
Birmingham End (previously City End) |
Pavilion End |
Home teams:
England |
Warwickshire County Club |
Records and statistics
First Test |
England v Australia - May 29-31, 1902 |
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First ODI |
England v Australia - Aug 28, 1972 |
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First T20I |
Australia v Pakistan - Jul 5, 2010 |
International Cricket Records at Edgbaston
Highest Innings Team Score
Test match: England 710 for 7 vs. India – Aug 2011
ODI (50 overs): England 408 for 9 vs. New Zealand – 9 June 2015
T20I: England 221 for 5 vs. Australia – 27 June 2018
Lowest Innings Team Score
Test match: South Africa 30 all out vs. England – Jun 1924
ODI (50 overs): Australia 70 all out vs. England – 4 Jun 1977
Highest Individual Score
Test Match: Alastair Cook 294 for England vs India – Aug 2011
ODI (60 overs): Glenn Turner 171* for New Zealand vs East Africa – 7 June 1975
ODI (55 overs): Robin Smith 167* for England vs Australia – 21 May 1993
ODI (50 overs): Andrew Strauss 154 for England vs Bangladesh – 12 July 2010
T20I: Aaron Finch 84 for Australia vs England – 27 June 2018
Best Bowling Figures
Test Match
Match Fred Trueman 12 for 119 for England vs West Indies – July 1963
Innings Wilfred Rhodes 7 for 17 for England vs Australia – May 1902
ODI Shahid Afridi 5 for 11 for Pakistan vs Kenya – 14 September 2004
T20I Saeed Ajmal 3 for 26 for Pakistan vs Australia – 5 July 2010
Highest Partnerships
Test Match: 411 Peter May and Colin Cowdrey for England vs West Indies – 30 May 1957
ODI: 256* Jason Roy and Alex Hales for England vs Sri Lanka – 24 June 2016
T20I: 95 Jos Buttler and Jason Roy for England vs Australia – 27 June 2018
Leading Run-Scorers
In Tests, Alastair Cook - 869 runs, David Gower- 767 runs
In ODIs, Andrew Strauss- 343 runs, Graham Gooch- 320 runs and Shikhar Dhawan- 290 runs.
Leading Wicket-Takers
In Tests: James Anderson- 44 wickets, Fred Trueman- 39 wickets and Ian Botham- 29 wickets.
In ODIs: Darren Gough - 21 wickets, James Anderson- 16 wickets
The above mention is the records which have been made in this ground throughout its 100 years history, Once again it will host another ICC event on it. Edgbaston will do the honors to host 5 ODI matches of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. It includes 2nd Semi-final as well of the event
Wednesday 19 June 2019 (50ovs) |
New Zealand v South Africa |
Wednesday 26 June 2019 (50ovs) |
New Zealand v Pakistan |
Sunday 30 June 2019 (50ovs) |
England v India |
Tuesday 2 July 2019 (50ovs) |
Bangladesh v India |
Thursday 11 July 2019 (50ovs) |
2nd Semi- Final of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 |