Lilac Hill is a picturesque 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 Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 in the Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

 suburb of Guildford

Guildford, Western Australia

Guildford is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 13 km northeast of the city. Its Local Government Area is the City of Swan.-History:Guildford was established in 1829 on the Swan River, being sited near a permanent fresh water supply...

, where the Swan River

Swan River (Western Australia)

The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, in the south west of Western Australia. Its lower reaches are relatively wide and deep, with few constrictions, while the upper reaches are usually quite narrow and shallow....

 wraps itself around its southern and eastern sides. The ends of the ground are known as the river end and the pavilion end.

In 1990 the WACA

WACA Ground

The WACA is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia. WACA are the initials of its owners and operators, the Western Australian Cricket Association....

 hosted a festival match at the ground being Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia, formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket...

's Chairman's XI v. the touring English XI. Since then, the WACA

WACA Ground

The WACA is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia. WACA are the initials of its owners and operators, the Western Australian Cricket Association....

 has continued to host an annual match at Lilac Hill against the visiting international cricket team and a Chairman's XI. The inaugural 1990 match set an attendance record of 12,000 and subsequent years have attracted good crowds also.

Continuation of the match in Perth has been under pressure in recent years due to the full schedule of touring teams. In 2006, the format of the match was changed slightly to an "Invitational XI" v the Chairman's XI.

International cricket match results

Date	Teams	Result
25 October 1990	Western Australia Cricket Association President's XI v England XI	England XI won by 6 wickets
17 November 1991	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v Indians	ACB XI won by 29 runs
2 November 1992	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v West Indians	West Indians won by 7 wickets
19 October 1993	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v New Zealanders	ACB XI won by 6 wickets
25 October 1994	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v England XI	England XI won by 7 wickets
26 October 1995	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v Pakistanis	Pakistanis won by 3 runs
4 November 1996	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v West Indians	ACB XI won by 3 wickets
14 September 1997	Western Australia Invitational XI v Transvaal	(two-day match) WA XI won by 6 wickets
25 November 1997	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v South Africans	South Africans won by 31 runs
29 October 1998	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v England XI	England won by 1 run
26 October 1999	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v Pakistanis	ACB XI won by 7 wickets
16 September 2000	Western Australia XI v KwaZulu-Natal	(12 per side) Match abandoned
17 September 2000	Western Australia XI v KwaZulu-Natal	(12 per side) Match tied
19 September 2000	Western Australia XI v KwaZulu-Natal	(two-day match) Match drawn
7 November 2000	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v West Indians	No result - heavy rain caused play to be abandoned
5 December 2001	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v South Africans	South Africans won by 48 runs
22 October 2002	Australian Cricket Board Chairman's XI v England XI	ACB XI won by 58 runs
1 October 2003	Cricket Australia Chairman's XI v Zimbabweans	Zimbabwe won by 7 wickets
7 December 2004	Cricket Australia Chairman's XI v Pakistan	Pakistan won by 43 runs
10 March 2005	Rose Bowl 2004/05 (1st ODI) Australia Women v New Zealand Women	Australia Women won by 87 runs
9 December 2005	Cricket Australia Chairman's XI v South Africa	South Africa won by 8 wickets
8 December 2006	Cricket Australia Chairman's XI v England Invitational XI	CA XI by 7 wickets
7 December 2007	Cricket Australia Chairman's XI v New Zealanders	CA XI by 7 runs
28 November 2008	Cricket Australia Chairman's XI v WACA President's XI	WACA President's XI won by 8 wickets
28 November 2008	Victorian Bushrangers v Retravision Warriors	Retravision Warriors won by 8 wickets

Other uses

It is the home ground for the local 1st grade cricket team - Midland-Guildford Cricket Club and is also used for hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 and is the home ground of the Old Guildford Mundaring Hockey Club.