Forthill Cricket Ground is a
cricket
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ground in
Broughty Ferry
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,
Dundee
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,
Scotland
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. It is the home of
Forfarshire Cricket Club and hosts matches for the
Scotland national cricket team
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. It has been used for cricket since 1880, when the newly-formed Forfarshire played their first match against Glenalmond College there.
Scotland first used the ground in 1913 when they played
Northamptonshire
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.
The ground staged six
first-class matches
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between 1924 and 1999.
[ The first was in 1924 when Scotland played ]Ireland
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. The touring Indians played Scotland in a first-class match there in 1932. Almost twenty years elapsed before first-class cricket returned to Forthill, with Scotland playing Worcestershire
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in 1951. The ground later played host to the touring New Zealanders
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in 1978 and Ireland in 1992, before hosting its final first-class match when Scotland played the South Africa Academy.
References
External links
Forthill, Dundee
at ESPNcricinfo
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Forthill, Dundee
at CricketArchive
Cricket grounds in Scotland
Sports venues completed in 1880
Sports venues in Dundee
Broughty Ferry
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