smallest cricket grounds you've seen in Australia

[tubsidis]

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this is pretty small

 

[ROOTA#6]

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No cricket played there anymore and like a lot of grounds in the are when it was up and running it had 2 pitch blocks in it

 

[Zach Package]

Just making use of space I guess. I’m assuming the kids use the hard wicket in the mornings and seniors the turf in the arvo?

It’s certainly the shitter ground of the two at the location but both are still used for senior cricket, it’s just outrageously small at one end. Sixes over 3rd man galore.

Nettleton Park in (I think, not a local) the Camberwell area, played at by STC South Camberwell, is a tiny, tiny ground. Couldn't be more than 30 metre boundaries.

Not only is it tiny, it’s also a rock hard dustbowl. They keep a pool scoop on the boundary to fish balls out of the creek next to the ground because despite putting up a fence it’s 10 metres shorter than it should be

 

[eth-dog]

Played a game out at a ground with long straight boundaries and short square boundaries with one side bordered by a creek. Spent half the day climbing down into the water to collect the ball after it had been deposited there. Joke of a ground for senior cricket.

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No longer used in senior cricket. Never played at Anderson Park then? Much shorter straight and similarly short square.

 

[Gethelred]

Cheltenham Park Oval 2.

15m straight boundaries, one decent square boundary but the other side's lucky to be about 25m. Cheltenham Golf Club's on the other side of some brush at one end, and when we played against them there we had to fetch a few balls from the bunker on the other side.

 

[eddiesmith]

RDCA has some beauties, Warrandyte High School and Warrandyte Reserve no2, seems to be a common theme for Warrandyte finding small grounds...

Warrandyte HS had soccer goals on the straight boundaries so cones were brought 5m inside them for safety, making it ridiculously short. You could just edge over the keepers head for 6 with no effort.

Croydon Primary School another classic, could leg glance a six that never went above waist height! Allambanan Reserve was always fun for batting, I nearly gave up bowling the year it was our home ground.

 

[Saint12]

Trey Bit reserve in Sandringham is tiny. Ball is always in the bushes as I reckon all boundaries around 25m.