Grace Road, Leicester: cricket results and records

Grace Road, Leicester appears in 180 recorded matches, the first on 8 August 2006 and the latest on 15 September 2026. The matches are 82 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 80 in the County Championship, 17 in One Day Internationals and 1 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (45 matches), County Championship (40 matches) and NatWest T20 Blast (24 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Leicestershire (162 matches), Derbyshire (21 matches), Northamptonshire (17 matches) and Durham (17 matches).

Of the 180 matches, 141 produced a winner, 33 were drawn, 1 were tied and 5 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 795/5 by Glamorgan against Leicestershire on 20 July 2022.

The lowest completed total is 43 by Leicestershire against Worcestershire on 22 May 2016.

In the 93 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 42 (45.2%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are LJ Hill (3,034 runs in 114 innings), CN Ackermann (2,941 runs in 96 innings), RK Patel (2,621 runs in 91 innings), MJ Cosgrove (2,480 runs in 78 innings) and EJH Eckersley (1,705 runs in 73 innings).

The leading wicket takers are BA Raine (156 wickets), CF Parkinson (122 wickets), BWM Mike (85 wickets), CJC Wright (84 wickets) and CE Shreck (66 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 410* by SA Northeast against Leicestershire on 20 July 2022, 231 by JM Vince against Leicestershire on 8 April 2021 and 224 by CT Steel against Leicestershire on 6 August 2017.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 43 by LC Norwell against Leicestershire on 5 September 2017, 7 for 18 by CN Ackermann against Birmingham Bears on 7 August 2019 and 7 for 45 by CAJ Morris against Leicestershire on 11 April 2019.

In 17 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 250.9 and the side batting second 172.6.

In 79 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 165.4 and the side batting second 151.3.

The first innings of 79 the County Championship matches here averaged 335.5 runs.

The toss is recorded in 180 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 120 (66.7%) and to bat in 60.

Among the 141 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 68 times (48.2%).

Batters at the ground hit 12,617 fours and 1,204 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.5 balls; 56.4% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 53%, bowled 22%, lbw 17%, run out 3% and caught and bowled 2% of the 3,618 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 55%, bowled 23%, lbw 18%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 2% of the 3,504 times.

That is 76.8 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (1), 2010s (89) and 2020s (90).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (45 matches), County Championship (40 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (24 matches), Specsavers County Championship (24 matches), LV= County Championship (16 matches), Vitality Blast Men (13 matches), ICC Women's World Cup (7 matches) and ICC Women's Championship (3 matches).