Roskear is a street and area on the eastern edge of

Camborne Camborne (from Cornish language, Cornish ''Cambron'', "crooked hill") is a town in Cornwall, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 20,845. The northern edge of the parish includes a section of the South West Coast Path, Hell's Mouth, C ...

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. In the early 1900s, the area had a tram loop. Roskear is known in the 2000s mostly for its

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ground, which is located off South Roskear Terrace. The ground is built on the site of the former North Roskear Mine, and is surrounded on all sides by housing. The ground has previously acted as a home ground for

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and has been the home of Camborne Cricket Club since 1905.

History

Cornwall first played at the ground against

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in the 1906

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. A single Minor Counties Championship match was played there annually to 1911, after which two fixtures were held there each year until the First World War, as well as after the war in 1921 and 1922. With the exception of 1931, when two fixtures were held, each season after 1922 and up to World War II saw a single Minor Counties Championship fixture played there annually. Starting in 1947, the ground returned to hosting two matches per season, an arrangement which lasted until 1958; thereafter a single match was played annually, until 1969. Between 1970 and 1973, Cornwall didn't play at the ground, but did return in 1974, playing annually there until 1979. A single match was played there in 1981, after which Cornwall did not play at the ground for another decade. They returned there in 1992, playing one Minor Counties Championship match there a season until 2000.

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was first played there in 2001, when Cornwall played

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in the

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, which Cornwall won by 3 wickets. In that same season, the ground hosted its first

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match, when Cornwall played the

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, while the following season they played Devon in the same competition. A second List A match was played there in the

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, with

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as visitors, with Cornwall again winning. From 2003, the ground hosted six further Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which saw

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as the visitors in 2009. A total of 92 Minor Counties Championship matches have been played there. The last MCCA Knockout Trophy match was played there in 2008 with

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as visitors.

Cornish wrestling

Cornish wrestling Cornish wrestling () is a form of wrestling that has been established in Cornwall for many centuries and possibly longer. It is similar to the Breton people, Breton Gouren wrestling style. It is colloquially known as "wrasslin’"Phillipps, K C: ...

tournaments for prizes were held at Roskear cricket ground.West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 20 June 1935.Cornishman, 10 July 1884.

Records

List A

* Highest team total: 301/8 (50 overs) by

, 2002 * Lowest team total: 256/5 (50 overs), by

v Cornwall, 2001 * Highest individual innings: 80 by Jonathan Kent for Cornwall v Somerset Cricket Board, 2002 * Best bowling in an innings: 3/54 by

Justin Stephens Justin Christopher John Stephens (born 12 August 1979) is an English former cricketer. Stephens is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace. He was born at Penzance, Cornwall. Stephens made his Minor Counties Championship debut ...

for Cornwall v Somerset Cricket Board, 2002

References

External links

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