Village Green, Christchurch
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Village Green is Christchurch
's back-up first-class cricket
ground in New Zealand.
Located alongside the main stadium of Queen Elizabeth II Park
, Village Green is often used for inter-provincial competition when the AMI Stadium is not available.
The Village Green will host a test cricket
match in March 2013.
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
's back-up first-class cricket
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...
ground in New Zealand.
Located alongside the main stadium of Queen Elizabeth II Park
Queen Elizabeth II Park
Queen Elizabeth II Park is a multi-use stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 people. It was built in 1973, to host the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in which a temporary 15000 seat western stand was erected for the event taking capacity to 35000...
, Village Green is often used for inter-provincial competition when the AMI Stadium is not available.
The Village Green will host a test cricket
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
match in March 2013.