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Forthill

Coordinates: 56°28′30.28″N 02°52′13.60″W / 56.4750778°N 2.8704444°W / 56.4750778; -2.8704444
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Forthill Cricket Ground
Ground information
LocationFintry Place, Dundee
Establishment1880
International information
First ODI16 July 2024:
 Scotland v  Oman
Last ODI26 July 2024:
 Scotland v  Namibia
First WT20I31 August 2019:
 Scotland v  United States
Last WT20I7 September 2019:
 Bangladesh v  Thailand
Team information
Forfarshire CC (1880 – present)
Scotland (1924 – 1999
2019 – present)
Panmure RFC (Rugby) (1888 – c.1962
1967 – present)
Broughty (Football) (1882 – 1892)
As of 26 July 2024
Source: Ground profile

Forthill Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland. It is the home of Forfarshire Cricket Club and hosts matches for the Scotland national cricket team.[1] It has been used for cricket since 1880, when the newly-formed Forfarshire played their first match against Glenalmond College there.[2] Scotland first used the ground in 1913 when they played Northamptonshire.[3]

The ground staged six first-class matches between 1924 and 1999.[4] The first was in 1924 when Scotland played Ireland. The touring Indians played Scotland in a first-class match there in 1932. Almost twenty years elapsed before first-class cricket returned to Forthill, with Scotland playing Worcestershire in 1951. The ground later played host to the touring New Zealanders in 1978 and Ireland in 1992, before hosting its final first-class match when Scotland played the South Africa Academy.[4] During the twentieth century the ground also hosted several other touring teams in non-first-class matches.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Forfarshire Cricket Club". www.forfarshire.co.uk. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Cricket - Forfarshire V. Glenalmond". Dundee Courier: 2. 25 May 1880.
  3. ^ a b "Other matches played on Forthill, Dundee". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  4. ^ a b "First-Class Matches played on Forthill, Dundee". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
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56°28′30.28″N 02°52′13.60″W / 56.4750778°N 2.8704444°W / 56.4750778; -2.8704444