Salter Oval (known prior to 1945 as the West End Recreation Reserve) is a
cricket
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ground in
Bundaberg
Bundaberg is a city in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia, and is the tenth largest city in the state. Bundaberg's regional area has a population of 70,921, and is a major centre of the Wide Bay–Burnett geographical region. The Bun ...
,
Queensland,
Australia
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. The first recorded match on the ground came in 1948 when Queensland Country Women played
England Women
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.
It held its only
first-class match in 1981 when
Queensland played the touring
New Zealanders. Two
List A
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matches have been played there. The first came in 1991 when Queensland played the touring
West Indians, while the second saw Queensland play the touring
Zimbabweans in 1995.
In February 2016,
Brisbane Broncos played
North Queensland Cowboys in a
National Rugby League trial fixture, with the attendance figure reported at 8,122.
Salter Oval hosted Bundaberg's first
National Rugby League match for premiership points on August 7, 2022 when