The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Rose Bowl

Ageas Bowl

The pavilion flanked by the Colin Ingleby-MacKenzie and Shane Warne Stands

Ground information

Location

West End, Hampshire

Coordinates

50°55′26″N 1°19′19″W / 50.9240°N 1.3219°W

Establishment

2001

Capacity

15,000 (25,000 with temporary

seating)

Owner

RB Sport & Leisure Holdings plc

End names

Pavilion End
Northern End

International information

First Test

16–20 June 2011:

England v

Sri Lanka

Last Test

27–31 July 2014:

England v

India

First ODI

10 July 2003:

South Africa v

Zimbabwe

Last ODI

27 May 2017:

England v

South Africa

First T20I

13 July 2005:

England v

Australia

Last T20I

21 June 2017:

England v

South Africa

Team information

Hampshire	(2001 – present)
Hampshire Cricket Board	(2001)
Southern Vipers	(2016 –present)

As of 21 June 2017
Source: ESPN Cricinfo

15,000 (25,000 with temporary

The Rose Bowl (known for sponsorship reasons as the Ageas Bowl) is a cricket ground and residential hotel complex in West End, Hampshire, England, located between the M27 motorway and Telegraph Woods. It is the home of Hampshire County Cricket Club, who have played there since 2001.

The ground was constructed as a replacement for Hampshire's previous home ground, the County Ground in Southampton, which had been Hampshire's home ground since 1885. Hampshire played their first first-class match at the ground against Worcestershire on 9–11 May 2001, with Hampshire winning by 124 runs. The ground has since held international cricket, including One Day Internationals, with the ground hosting some of the matches in the 2004 Champions Trophy. Two Twenty20 Internationals have also been played there, as well as Test matches in 2011 and 2014, which saw England play Sri Lanka and India respectively.

In order to be able to host Test cricket, the ground underwent a redevelopment starting in 2008, which saw the stands built to increase capacity and other construction work undertaken to make the hosting of international cricket at the ground more viable. A four-star Hilton Hotel with an integrated media centre overlooking the ground was opened in 2015. The end names are the Pavilion End to the south and the Hotel End to the north. Following Hampshire Cricket Ltd finding itself in financial trouble in 2011, the lease over the ground was sold to Eastleigh Borough Council for £6.5 million with Rod Bransgrove injecting a similar sum in 2012.

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