Edgbaston Cricket Ground
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| Location | Edgbaston, Birmingham | ||
| Establishment | 1882 | ||
| Capacity | 25,000 | ||
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| Pavilion End City/Birmingham End |
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| First Test | 29–31 May 1902: England v  Australia |
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| Last Test | 03–07 August 2016: England v  Pakistan |
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| First ODI | 28 August 1972: England v Australia |
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| Last ODI | 24 June 2016: England v  Sri Lanka |
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| First T20I | 5 July 2010: Australia v Pakistan |
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| Last T20I | 7 September 2014: England v  India |
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| As of 24 June 2016 Source: Matches played at Edgbaston |
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Edgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England. It is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club, and is also used for Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals. Edgbaston has also hosted the T20 domestic finals day more than any other cricket ground.
Edgbaston was also the first English ground outside Lord's to host a major international one day tournament final when it hosted the ICC Champions Trophy final in 2013.
Edgbaston was the venue of the first senior game under floodlights in English cricket and will host the first day/night Test match in England in August 2017 when England play the West Indies.
With permanent seating for 25,000 spectators, Edgbaston is the fourth-largest cricketing venue in the United Kingdom, after Lord's, Old Trafford and The Oval.
Edgbaston also has a variety of conference and banqueting halls available for a variety of events and has an award winning catering team.
Edgbaston hosts an annual fireworks display during bonfire night week.
The land that now makes up Edgbaston Cricket Ground was originally owned by the Calthorpe Estate, who have now sold the site onto Wylam Investments (Edgbaston Holdings) on a long lease. Calthorpe Estates had developed the manor of Edgbaston into an exclusive Birmingham suburb over the course of the 19th century, and believed that a cricket ground would be an asset that would add to the genteel image of the area.Warwickshire County Cricket Club had considered Rugby and Leamington Spa for their headquarters, but club secretary William Ansell believed that Birmingham's large population and comprehensive railway connections made it preferable – envisaging first-class status for the county and Test status for the ground.
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