Kensington Oval: cricket results and records

Kensington Oval, Barbados appears in 141 recorded matches, the first on 7 June 2003 and the latest on 20 September 2026. The matches are 51 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 41 in Twenty20 Internationals, 35 in One Day Internationals and 14 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are Caribbean Premier League (51 matches), England tour of West Indies (14 matches) and ICC World Twenty20 (10 matches).

The sides that appear most often are West Indies (68 matches), England (35 matches), Barbados Tridents (33 matches) and Australia (23 matches).

Of the 141 matches, 133 produced a winner, 3 were drawn, 1 were tied and 4 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 749/9 by West Indies against England on 26 February 2009.

The lowest completed total is 43 by West Indies against England on 22 December 2022.

In the 122 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 58 (47.5%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are SD Hope (1,113 runs in 42 innings), N Pooran (973 runs in 37 innings), JO Holder (949 runs in 47 innings), CH Gayle (837 runs in 28 innings) and KA Pollard (824 runs in 40 innings).

The leading wicket takers are JO Holder (94 wickets), AS Joseph (53 wickets), KAJ Roach (42 wickets), AJ Hosein (31 wickets) and SS Cottrell (30 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 291 by RR Sarwan against England on 26 February 2009, 202* by JO Holder against England on 23 January 2019 and 178 by AB de Villiers against West Indies on 21 April 2005.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 60 by RL Chase against England on 23 January 2019, 7 for 94 by Yasir Shah against West Indies on 30 April 2017 and 6 for 6 by Shakib Al Hasan against Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel on 3 August 2013.

The first innings of 14 Test matches matches here averaged 305.8 runs.

In 34 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 225.2 and the side batting second 191.1.

In 39 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 147.9 and the side batting second 134.3.

In 50 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 155.0 and the side batting second 137.1.

The toss is recorded in 141 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 86 (61.0%) and to bat in 55.

Among the 133 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 80 times (60.2%).

Batters at the ground hit 4,540 fours and 1,546 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 10.6 balls; 54.0% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 63%, bowled 16%, lbw 9%, run out 6% and caught and bowled 3% of the 2,151 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 67%, bowled 17%, lbw 10%, caught and bowled 3% and stumped 3% of the 2,013 times.

That is 43.2 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (14), 2010s (66) and 2020s (61).

The competitions that have used the ground are Caribbean Premier League (51 matches), England tour of West Indies (14 matches), ICC World Twenty20 (10 matches), ICC Men's T20 World Cup (8 matches), ICC World Cup (7 matches), New Zealand tour of West Indies (5 matches), West Indies Tri-Nation Series (4 matches) and Australia tour of West Indies (4 matches).