County Ground, Northampton: cricket results and records

County Ground, Northampton appears in 127 recorded matches, the first on 13 April 2014 and the latest on 15 September 2026. The matches are 82 in the County Championship, 41 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 2 in Twenty20 Internationals and 2 in One Day Internationals. The competitions seen most often are County Championship (42 matches), Vitality Blast (27 matches) and Specsavers County Championship (24 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Northamptonshire (123 matches), Lancashire (12 matches), Derbyshire (11 matches) and Leicestershire (11 matches).

Of the 127 matches, 90 produced a winner, 35 were drawn, 1 were tied and 1 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 640/9 by Essex against Northamptonshire on 28 May 2016.

The lowest completed total is 50 by Northamptonshire against Durham on 2 September 2026.

In the 43 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 26 (60.5%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are RI Keogh (3,784 runs in 117 innings), R Vasconcelos (3,547 runs in 109 innings), SA Zaib (3,172 runs in 100 innings), LA Procter (2,687 runs in 90 innings) and AM Rossington (1,915 runs in 57 innings).

The leading wicket takers are BW Sanderson (270 wickets), RI Keogh (90 wickets), RK Kleinveldt (89 wickets), Azharullah (70 wickets) and TAI Taylor (68 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 300* by DJ Bell-Drummond against Northamptonshire on 25 June 2023, 261 by EN Gay against Middlesex on 12 April 2024 and 230 by A Lyth against Northamptonshire on 31 May 2014.

The best bowling figures are 9 for 52 by RI Keogh against Glamorgan on 31 August 2016, 9 for 65 by RK Kleinveldt against Nottinghamshire on 19 September 2017 and 8 for 57 by BA Hutton against Gloucestershire on 20 June 2018.

In 41 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 180.5 and the side batting second 159.9.

The first innings of 81 the County Championship matches here averaged 308.5 runs.

The toss is recorded in 127 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 65 (51.2%) and to bat in 62.

Among the 90 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 38 times (42.2%).

Batters at the ground hit 10,860 fours and 995 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 12.6 balls; 55.4% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 58%, bowled 20%, lbw 17%, run out 2% and caught and bowled 2% of the 3,115 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 60%, bowled 20%, lbw 17%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 1% of the 3,049 times.

That is 93.3 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2010s (40) and 2020s (87).

The competitions that have used the ground are County Championship (42 matches), Vitality Blast (27 matches), Specsavers County Championship (24 matches), LV= County Championship (16 matches), Vitality Blast Men (14 matches), India Women tour of England (1 matches), South Africa Women tour of England (1 matches) and Sri Lanka Women tour of England (1 matches).