County Ground, Hove: cricket results and records

County Ground, Hove, Brighton appears in 131 recorded matches, the first on 6 April 2014 and the latest on 8 September 2026. The matches are 76 in the County Championship, 47 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 7 in Twenty20 Internationals and 1 in One Day Internationals. The competitions seen most often are County Championship (41 matches), Vitality Blast (34 matches) and Specsavers County Championship (24 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Sussex (123 matches), Glamorgan (13 matches), Middlesex (11 matches) and Gloucestershire (11 matches).

Of the 131 matches, 98 produced a winner, 30 were drawn, 1 were tied and 2 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 756/4 by Leicestershire against Sussex on 11 July 2022.

The lowest completed total is 75 by Middlesex against Sussex on 18 August 2019.

In the 52 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 24 (46.2%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are TJ Haines (3,176 runs in 79 innings), BC Brown (2,665 runs in 69 innings), TP Alsop (2,571 runs in 76 innings), JM Coles (2,376 runs in 63 innings) and LWP Wells (2,124 runs in 54 innings).

The leading wicket takers are OE Robinson (191 wickets), JJ Carson (115 wickets), SJ Magoffin (84 wickets), TS Mills (63 wickets) and JM Coles (63 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 277* by CN Ackermann against Sussex on 11 July 2022, 258 by LWP Wells against Durham on 21 May 2017 and 253 by SD Robson against Sussex on 6 September 2021.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 34 by OE Robinson against Middlesex on 18 August 2019, 8 for 90 by GC Viljoen against Sussex on 12 September 2017 and 7 for 58 by OE Robinson against Middlesex on 4 May 2018.

In 47 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 175.2 and the side batting second 153.1.

The first innings of 75 the County Championship matches here averaged 316.1 runs.

The toss is recorded in 131 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 79 (60.3%) and to bat in 52.

Among the 98 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 47 times (48.0%).

Batters at the ground hit 10,840 fours and 1,195 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.9 balls; 56.8% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 60%, bowled 19%, lbw 15%, caught and bowled 3% and run out 2% of the 3,014 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 61%, bowled 19%, lbw 15%, caught and bowled 3% and stumped 1% of the 2,934 times.

That is 91.9 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2010s (44) and 2020s (87).

The competitions that have used the ground are County Championship (41 matches), Vitality Blast (34 matches), Specsavers County Championship (24 matches), Vitality Blast Men (13 matches), LV= County Championship (11 matches), New Zealand Women tour of England (3 matches), India Women tour of England (2 matches) and Australia Women tour of England (1 matches).