Booth Park is a

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ground in Chelford Road, Toft,

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. The ground lies within the grounds of Booths Park, which surrounds the east and south of the ground, while the western side is bordered by residential housing. The ground is used by Toft Cricket Club.

History

The ground was established in 1928.

first used the ground in the 1982

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against

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. The ground hosted a single Minor Counties Championship annually until 1998, with fourteen matches being played there, the last of which saw

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at the visitors. The ground held its first

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match when Cheshire played

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

in the second round of the

2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2002 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 29 August 2001 and 31 August 2002. It was the second Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, following its change of name from the Na ...

, which was held in 2001 to avoid fixture congestion. A second List A match was held there in 2002, when Cheshire played Huntingdonshire in the first round of the

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, with its early round matches once again played in the season before to avoid fixture congestion in 2003. Cheshire lost to Cornwall, but defeated Huntingdonshire. Cheshire returned to the ground in 2012, playing a MCCA Knockout Trophy match against

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Records

List A

* Highest team total: 230/5 (50 overs) by

v Huntingdonshire, 2001 * Lowest team total: 151 all out (43.3 overs) by Cheshire v

, 2002 * Highest individual innings: 74 by Benjamin Price for Cornwall v Cheshire, as above * Best bowling in an innings: 4/21 by Abey Kuruvilla for Cheshire v Cornwall, as above

Gallery

File:Toft Cricket Club (7).JPG, View of the pavilion. File:Toft Cricket Club (10).JPG, View of the ground looking south. File:Toft Cricket Club (20).JPG, View of the ground looking east. File:Toft Cricket Club (2).JPG, View of the scorers hut. File:Toft Cricket Club (15).JPG, View toward the practice nets.

References

External links

{{Commons category, Toft Cricket Club
Booth Park
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