County Ground, New Road, Worcester: cricket results and records

County Ground, New Road, Worcester appears in 427 recorded matches, the first on 24 August 2005 and the latest on 8 September 2026. The matches are 271 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 77 in the County Championship, 49 in One Day Internationals, 28 in Twenty20 Internationals and 2 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are NatWest T20 Blast (148 matches), Vitality Blast (110 matches) and County Championship (39 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Worcestershire (171 matches), England (63 matches), Northamptonshire (60 matches) and Gloucestershire (54 matches).

Of the 427 matches, 392 produced a winner, 21 were drawn, 4 were tied and 10 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 580/6 by Durham against Worcestershire on 5 May 2022.

The lowest completed total is 59 by Kent against Worcestershire on 3 July 2026.

In the 334 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 166 (49.7%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are BL D'Oliveira (4,281 runs in 161 innings), DKH Mitchell (3,412 runs in 117 innings), OB Cox (3,075 runs in 136 innings), JM Clarke (2,592 runs in 81 innings) and JD Libby (2,520 runs in 88 innings).

The leading wicket takers are J Leach (233 wickets), EG Barnard (143 wickets), DY Pennington (104 wickets), CAJ Morris (102 wickets) and TAI Taylor (94 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 238* by JL du Plooy against Worcestershire on 25 June 2023, 227 by JL Denly against Worcestershire on 19 June 2017 and 226* by LJ Wright against Worcestershire on 1 September 2015.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 148 by CF Parkinson against Worcestershire on 12 September 2017, 7 for 19 by Saeed Ajmal against Essex on 18 May 2014 and 7 for 34 by Saeed Ajmal against Glamorgan on 29 June 2014.

In 49 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 233.5 and the side batting second 186.5.

In 28 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 144.7 and the side batting second 121.1.

In 264 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 169.3 and the side batting second 154.5.

The first innings of 77 the County Championship matches here averaged 285.1 runs.

The toss is recorded in 427 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 268 (62.8%) and to bat in 159.

Among the 392 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 197 times (50.3%).

Batters at the ground hit 19,062 fours and 3,662 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 9.8 balls; 56.0% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 58%, bowled 20%, lbw 12%, run out 5% and caught and bowled 3% of the 6,867 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 61%, bowled 21%, lbw 13%, caught and bowled 3% and stumped 2% of the 6,497 times.

That is 53.2 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (8), 2010s (307) and 2020s (112).

The competitions that have used the ground are NatWest T20 Blast (148 matches), Vitality Blast (110 matches), County Championship (39 matches), Specsavers County Championship (24 matches), ICC Women's World Cup (22 matches), LV= County Championship (14 matches), Vitality Blast Men (13 matches) and ICC Women's Championship (10 matches).