County Ground, Bristol: cricket results and records

County Ground, Bristol appears in 177 recorded matches, the first on 6 July 2003 and the latest on 15 September 2026. The matches are 68 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 61 in the County Championship, 26 in One Day Internationals, 21 in Twenty20 Internationals and 1 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (36 matches), County Championship (31 matches) and NatWest T20 Blast (20 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Gloucestershire (129 matches), England (35 matches), Kent (15 matches) and Glamorgan (14 matches).

Of the 177 matches, 142 produced a winner, 31 were drawn and 4 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 111 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 47 (42.3%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are CDJ Dent (3,685 runs in 102 innings), James Bracey (3,290 runs in 104 innings), Miles Hammond (2,619 runs in 110 innings), GL van Buuren (2,224 runs in 72 innings) and JMR Taylor (1,843 runs in 95 innings).

The leading wicket takers are DA Payne (131 wickets), MD Taylor (126 wickets), RF Higgins (80 wickets), J Shaw (67 wickets) and TMJ Smith (66 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 24 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 245.0 and the side batting second 208.2.

In 21 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 159.7 and the side batting second 143.6.

In 67 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 164.2 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 177 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 124 (70.1%) and to bat in 53.

Among the 142 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 81 times (57.0%).

Batters at the ground hit 10,990 fours and 1,481 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.4 balls; 56.1% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 60%, bowled 19%, lbw 13%, run out 4% and caught and bowled 2% of the 3,228 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 63%, bowled 19%, lbw 14%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 2% of the 3,103 times.

That is 70.5 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (5), 2010s (81) and 2020s (91).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (36 matches), County Championship (31 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (20 matches), Specsavers County Championship (19 matches), Vitality Blast Men (12 matches), LV= County Championship (11 matches), ICC Women's World Cup (8 matches) and ICC Women's T20 World Cup (6 matches).