Lugogo Stadium 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 Kampala

Kampala

Kampala is the largest city and capital of Uganda. The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division and Lubaga Division. The city is coterminous with Kampala District.-History: of Buganda, had chosen...

, Uganda

Uganda

Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1957 when Kenya Asians played Sunder Cricket Club. In that same year Uganda first used the ground when the national team played the Sunder Cricket Club. The ground held its inaugural first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 match when a East African Invitation XI played the touring Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

 in 1963. A further first-class match followed in 1967 when a combined East Africa team played the touring Indians. The next first-class matches to held on the ground didn't come until 2005, when Uganda played two matches there in the Intercontinental Cup

2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup

The 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup was the second edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup, a cricket competition for 12 nations from Asia, Africa, North America and Europe. All the games were scheduled for three days and were designated first class....

 against Kenya and Namibia

Namibia national cricket team

The Namibia cricket team is the team that represents the country of Namibia in international cricket matches. It is governed by Cricket Namibia, an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1992 and became part of the High Performance Program in 2007. They took part in the 2003...

. The Lugogo Stadium is the only cricket venue in Uganda to have held first-class cricket.

Surrounding the cricket ground there are tennis courts and a football ground which is the home ground of Kampala City Council FC

Kampala City Council FC

Kampala City Council FC, or short KCC, is a Ugandan football club from Kampala.The club was founded in 1967 as a welfare and socialising side for department of Kampala City Council civil engineering...

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External links

• Lugogo Stadium at ESPNcricinfo
• Lugogo Stadium at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
  CricketArchive is a website that aims to provide a comprehensive archive of records relating to the sport of cricket. It claims to be the most comprehensive cricket database on the internet, including scorecards for all matches of first-class cricket , List A cricket , Women's Test cricket and...