County Ground, Bristol: cricket results and records

County Ground, Bristol appears in 116 recorded matches, the first on 13 April 2014 and the latest on 15 September 2026. The matches are 61 in the County Championship, 32 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 14 in Twenty20 Internationals, 8 in One Day Internationals and 1 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are County Championship (31 matches), Vitality Blast (20 matches) and Specsavers County Championship (19 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Gloucestershire (93 matches), England (15 matches), Kent (11 matches) and Glamorgan (9 matches).

Of the 116 matches, 83 produced a winner, 31 were drawn and 2 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 626/6 by Surrey against Gloucestershire on 9 June 2014.

The lowest completed total is 74 by Birmingham Bears against Gloucestershire on 22 May 2026.

In the 52 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 22 (42.3%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are CDJ Dent (3,359 runs in 87 innings), James Bracey (3,068 runs in 93 innings), Miles Hammond (2,343 runs in 95 innings), GL van Buuren (2,111 runs in 66 innings) and CT Bancroft (1,618 runs in 44 innings).

The leading wicket takers are MD Taylor (109 wickets), DA Payne (99 wickets), J Shaw (66 wickets), RF Higgins (65 wickets) and CN Miles (58 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 268 by CDJ Dent against Glamorgan on 22 September 2015, 257* by SR Patel against Gloucestershire on 9 June 2017 and 244 by BS McKinney against Gloucestershire on 10 April 2026.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 27 by TJ Price against Warwickshire on 20 September 2022, 7 for 33 by J Broad against Gloucestershire on 29 August 2024 and 7 for 53 by CJC Wright against Gloucestershire on 29 April 2021.

In 14 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 162.4 and the side batting second 143.4.

In 32 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 164.7 and the side batting second 149.9.

The first innings of 60 the County Championship matches here averaged 311.8 runs.

The toss is recorded in 116 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 85 (73.3%) and to bat in 31.

Among the 83 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 54 times (65.1%).

Batters at the ground hit 9,121 fours and 958 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 12.3 balls; 57.0% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 60%, bowled 19%, lbw 15%, run out 3% and caught and bowled 2% of the 2,455 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 62%, bowled 19%, lbw 15%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 1% of the 2,382 times.

That is 86.9 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2010s (30) and 2020s (86).

The competitions that have used the ground are County Championship (31 matches), Vitality Blast (20 matches), Specsavers County Championship (19 matches), Vitality Blast Men (12 matches), LV= County Championship (11 matches), ICC Women's T20 World Cup (6 matches), India Women tour of England (5 matches) and South Africa tour of England (3 matches).