Honor Oak Cricket Club Ground is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 ground in Dulwich

Dulwich

Dulwich is an area of South London, England. The settlement is mostly in the London Borough of Southwark with parts in the London Borough of Lambeth...

, London

London

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 (formerly Surrey

Surrey

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). The first recorded match on the ground was in 1943, when the Buccaneers played Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northants Steelbacks. The traditional club colour is Maroon. During the...

 in a wartime charity match. In 1967, the ground hosted a single Second XI Championship

Second XI Championship

The Second XI Championship is a season-long cricket competition in England that is competed for by the reserve teams of those county cricket clubs that have first-class status...

 match between the Surrey Second XI

Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...

 and the Glamorgan Second XI

Glamorgan County Cricket Club

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.

The ground hosted a single Women's One Day International in the 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup

1993 Women's Cricket World Cup

The 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup was held in England. Teams from Australia, England, India, Ireland,New Zealand, Denmark, the Netherlands and the West Indies took part in a round robin format with the top two teams contesting the final. New Zealand won all 7 of their matches to top the table,...

 when Australia women played Denmark women.

In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Alleyn and Honor Oak Cricket Club.

External links

• Honor Oak Cricket Club Ground on CricketArchive
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• Honor Oak Cricket Club Ground on Cricinfo
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