County Ground, Northampton: cricket results and records

County Ground, Northampton appears in 173 recorded matches, the first on 13 September 2012 and the latest on 15 September 2026. The matches are 84 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 82 in the County Championship, 5 in Twenty20 Internationals and 2 in One Day Internationals. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (43 matches), County Championship (42 matches) and NatWest T20 Blast (27 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Northamptonshire (166 matches), Derbyshire (17 matches), Leicestershire (16 matches) and Worcestershire (16 matches).

Of the 173 matches, 134 produced a winner, 35 were drawn, 1 were tied and 3 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 87 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 51 (58.6%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are RI Keogh (4,006 runs in 131 innings), R Vasconcelos (3,618 runs in 114 innings), SA Zaib (3,261 runs in 105 innings), AM Rossington (2,787 runs in 84 innings) and LA Procter (2,736 runs in 94 innings).

The leading wicket takers are BW Sanderson (291 wickets), RK Kleinveldt (117 wickets), RI Keogh (99 wickets), Azharullah (93 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 82 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 175.6 and the side batting second 159.1.

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

The toss is recorded in 173 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 93 (53.8%) and to bat in 80.

Among the 134 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 60 times (44.8%).

Batters at the ground hit 12,196 fours and 1,439 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.7 balls; 55.7% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 59%, bowled 20%, lbw 15%, run out 3% and caught and bowled 2% of the 3,676 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 61%, bowled 20%, lbw 15%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 2% of the 3,571 times.

That is 78.8 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2010s (82) and 2020s (91).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (43 matches), County Championship (42 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (27 matches), Specsavers County Championship (24 matches), LV= County Championship (16 matches), Vitality Blast Men (14 matches), West Indies Women in England T20I Series (1 matches) and South Africa Women in England T20I Series (1 matches).