Willowmoore Park
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Willowmoore Park is a multi-purpose stadium
in Benoni
, South Africa
. It is currently used mostly for cricket
matches and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup
. The stadium holds 20,000 people and opened in 1924. After withdrawing their sponsorship from St George's Park in Port Elizabeth, Sahara then sponsored Willowmore Park, thus for sponsorship reasons it is known as "Sahara Willowmore Park".
Multi-purpose stadium
Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...
in Benoni
Benoni, Gauteng
Benoni is a city with 654,509 inhabitants on the East Rand in the South African province of Gauteng. Since 2000, it has been part of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.- History :...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. It is currently used mostly for 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...
matches and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup
2003 Cricket World Cup
-Group stage tables and results:The top three teams from each pool qualify for the next stage, carrying forward the points already scored against fellow qualifiers, plus a quarter of the points scored against the teams that failed to qualify.-Pool A:...
. The stadium holds 20,000 people and opened in 1924. After withdrawing their sponsorship from St George's Park in Port Elizabeth, Sahara then sponsored Willowmore Park, thus for sponsorship reasons it is known as "Sahara Willowmore Park".