Tuks Cricket Oval
| LC de Villiers Oval | |||||
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| Ground information | |||||
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| Location | Pretoria, South Africa | ||||
| Country | South Africa | ||||
| Establishment | 1993 | ||||
| Capacity | 2,000 | ||||
| Owner | University of Pretoria | ||||
| Architect | n/a | ||||
| Operator | Cricket South Africa | ||||
| Tenants | South Africa | ||||
| International information | |||||
| First WODI | 24 March 2005: Error creating thumbnail: Australia v File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand | ||||
| Last WODI | 3 April 2003: File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa v File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand | ||||
| Only WT20I | 15 May 2019: File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa v  Pakistan | ||||
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| As of 7 September 2020 Source: Cricinfo | |||||
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Tuks Cricket Oval or LC de Villiers Oval is a cricket ground in Pretoria, South Africa. It is located in the premises of the Pretoria University. It is an occasional home ground for Northerns cricket team.
The university's High Performance Centre which was established in 2002 has become the favored location for the pre-departure camps of Team South Africa in addition to being chosen by several national and international federations as their preferred specialization centre.[1]
Oval consist of 6 cricket fields, 3 Football fields, one rugby, two hockey field. Stadium is also shared with athletics. All field has floodlights with capacity of 2,000 persons. The oval hosted two Youth ODIs in 1998 ICC Under-19s World Cup[2] and five women's ODIs in 2005 International Women's Cricket Council World Cup.[3]
In 2013, Indian opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan scored unbeaten 248 run on this ground against South Africa A.[4]
Tournaments hosted
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Pretoria University Archived 2014-09-04 at archive.today
- ^ Youth ODIs
- ^ Women's ODI
- ^ cricketarchive
External links
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