City Oval
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| Location | Pietermaritzburg | ||||
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 29°36′37.17″S 30°22′50.97″E / 29.6103250°S 30.3808250°E | ||||
| Establishment | 1888 | ||||
| Capacity | 12,000 | ||||
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| Duzi End Hulett End |
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| First ODI | February 12 2003: Bangladesh v  Sri Lanka |
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| Last ODI | February 23 2003: India v  Namibia |
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| As of June 2015 Source: cricinfo |
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City Oval (formerly Alexandra Park and sometimes called the Pietermaritzburg Oval), is a multi-purpose stadium in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The 12,000 capacity stadium is currently used predominantly for cricket matches, with the ground being used by KwaZulu-Natal Inland men's and women's teams, KwaZulu-Natal and Dolphins (who also play at Kingsmead, Durban), and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. It is one of only three first-class cricket grounds in the world to have a tree within the boundary ropes (the others being St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury, United Kingdom and VRA Cricket Ground in Amstelveen, Netherlands), and any cricketer that scores a century or takes a five-wicket haul in a match at the City Oval gets to plant a tree at the ground. The City Oval Pavilion is based on the design of Queen's Park cricket ground in Chesterfield, United Kingdom.
The City Oval, then known as Alexandra Park, hosted its first first-class cricket match in 1894/95. Between 1895 and 1957, the City Oval hosted 9 first-class matches between Natal and Marylebone Cricket Club.
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