Allan Border Field
![]() The Stuart Law stand at Allan Border Field | |
Ground information | |
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Location | Albion, Brisbane, Australia |
Home club | Queensland Bulls Queensland Fire Cricket Australia XI |
Capacity | 6,500 |
Owner | Queensland Government |
Tenants | Fortitude Valley Diehards (1909-95) Queensland Bulls Queensland Fire Cricket Australia XI Southern Stars Australia A National Performance Squad |
End names | |
Crosby Road End Albion Park End | |
International information | |
First WODI | 7 February 1999:![]() ![]() |
Last WODI | 7 October 2020:![]() ![]() |
First WT20I | 18 October 2006:![]() ![]() |
Last WT20I | 30 September 2020:![]() ![]() |
As of 7 October 2020 Source: ESPNcricinfo |
Allan Border Field is a cricket ground in the Brisbane suburb of Albion in Queensland. The Australian Cricket Academy has been based at the oval since 2004 using it as a base for the development of elite cricketers throughout Australia.
It was formerly known as Neumann Oval and was home to the Fortitude Valley Diehards rugby league team from 1909 until 1995. The oval was named for Fred "Firpo" Neumann, Valley's club captain (and later president) and Queensland and Australian representative footballer.[1] Queensland Cricket purchased the ground not long after Valley's relocation and named it in honour of former Australian cricket captain Allan Border. The ground is used as a training facility for the Queensland Bulls and more recently the Australian cricket team.[2] The capacity of the ground is 6,300, which is much smaller than the Gabba. It is also used as a home venue for the Queensland Bulls and Cricket Australia XI in Australian domestic cricket.[3]
History
Rugby League
First grade rugby league was played at the ground between 1909 and 1995 by the Fortitude Valley Diehards in the Brisbane Rugby League competition. The club won 15 titles during their tenure in the league, the most of any club, and produced future Queesnland captain and immortal Wally Lewis.
Cricket
The first first-class match held at the ground was played between Queensland and a touring Pakistan team in 1999 during which, both Matthew Hayden and Stuart Law[4] made centuries as Queensland won the match by 112 runs.[5]
The venue hosted Australian domestic and List A matches in the early-2000s, including the 1999/00 Pura Cup Final [6] but, in later years, was restricted to tour matches between Queensland and international teams with the Gabba becoming the primary home of the Queensland Bulls.
In 2009, Pakistan A won in a three-match one-day series against Australia A [7] but, lost the subsequent Twenty20 match.[8]
Sheffield Shield was re-introduced in 2010 with a match played between Queensland and South Australia [9] and more games have been played since, including a match in 2013 between Queensland and Tasmania during which Jordan Silk made a century.[10]
In 2014, two four-day matches were played between Australia A and a touring India A team.[11] Naman Ojha made a double-century in that match. Mitchell Marsh, who scored 211, and Sam Whiteman, who scored 174, put on 371 runs for the eighth wicket, an Australian record and the second-highest eighth-wicket partnership recorded.[12] Both matches resulted in a draw.[13]
On 23 June 2014 it was announced that the field would jointly play host to the initial rounds of the newly sponsored Matador BBQs One-Day Cup in October.[14][15] In the first match, Josh Hazlewood took 7 for 36 against South Australia, the third-best bowling performance in Australian domestic one-day history and the best by a New South Welshman.[16] Four days later, Jonathan Wells made the second-highest score in List A cricket at Allan Border Field, becoming just the fourth batsman to make a century in List A cricket at the ground. In the same match Sam Rainbird took figures of 5 for 29.[17] However, in the last match, Queenslander Joe Burns made 115 against South Australia in a 94-run victory, passing Wells' score and becoming the fifth batsman to make a century in List A cricket at the ground.[18][19]
On 8 July 2015 Victorian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis hit part-time medium-pacer Brendan Smith for six sixes in an over on his way to 121 from 73 balls while playing for the National Performance Squad in a 50-over match against a National Indigenous Squad. Smith, captain of the New South Wales under-17s, also sent down a wide meaning his one over of the match went for 37 runs. The game was a non-sanctioned practice match.[20]
On 23–27 March 2018 the Sheffield Shield final was played at the ground between Queensland Bulls and Tasmania Tigers the match was won by Queensland by 9 wickets it was Queensland's 8th title and first since 2011–12 Sheffield Shield season
Records
First Class cricket
This table contains the top five highest scores made by a batsman in a single innings.
Season | Player | Team | Score | Opponent |
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2005/06 | Marlon Samuels | West Indies | 257 | Queensland |
2002/03 | Martin Love | Queensland | 250 | England XI |
2000/01 | Ricky Ponting | Tasmania | 233 | Queensland |
2014 | Naman Ojha | India A | 219* | Australia A |
2014 | Mitchell Marsh | Australia A | 211 | India A |
Last Updated 10 July 2014.[21]
List A cricket
This table contains the top five highest scores made by a batsman in List A matches.
Season | Player | Team | Score | Opponent |
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2009 | Tim Paine | Australia A | 134 | Pakistan A |
2014 | Joe Burns | Queensland | 115 | South Australia |
2014 | Jonathan Wells | Tasmania | 110 | Victoria |
2009 | Umar Akmal | Pakistan A | 104 | Australia A |
2009 | Khalid Latif | Pakistan A | 100 | Australia A |
Last Updated 15 July 2015.[22]
National Cricket Centre
Cricket Australia officially opened the new National Cricket Centre on 12 November 2013. The new facility replaced the Centre of Excellence. The National Cricket Centre features state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor training facilities and equipment in order to enhance the development of Australian cricketers.[23] The street that the Allan Border Field is on was also renamed in honour of former Australian captain Greg Chappell.[24]
See also
List of sports venues in Australia
References
- ^ Gary Lester (editor) (1983). The Sun Book of Rugby League - 1983. Sydney, New South Wales: John Fairfax Marketing. p. 109. ISBN 0-909558-83-3.
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has generic name (help) - ^ "Aussie men front up at fitness camp". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ^ "JLT One Day Cup 2017". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ "Stuart Law 102 vs Pakistan 1999/00 Allan Border Field". YouTube [robelinda2]. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ^ "Queensland v Pakistan in 1999/00". Queensland Cricket. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Queensland v Victoria in 1999/00". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "List A Matches played on Allan Border Field, Brisbane". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Australia A v Pakistan A in 2009". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Queensland v South Australia in 2010/11". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Queensland v Tasmania at Brisbane". ESPN cricinfo. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ^ "Brisbane to host Australia A games". Brisbane Heat. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Marsh, Whiteman flatten India A with huge stand". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
- ^ "Australia A Quad Series". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Enormous cricket feast revealed". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ "Matador BBQs One-Day Cup 2014". Cricket Australia. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ "Hazlewood takes seven in Blues win". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- ^ "Tasmania claim bonus point in big win". Cricket Australia. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ^ "Burns fires Queensland to bonus-point win". ESPN CricInfo. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ "9th Match: South Australia v Queensland at Brisbane, Oct 12, 2014". ESPN CricInfo. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ "Stoinis smashes six sixes in an over". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ Allan Border Field, Brisbane - Centuries in first-class cricket
- ^ Allan Border Field, Brisbane - Centuries in List A cricket
- ^ "National Cricket Centre". Cricket Australia. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Greg Chappell no Bogan". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
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