New Road, Worcester: cricket results and records

New Road, Worcester appears in 168 recorded matches, the first on 24 August 2005 and the latest on 24 September 2026. The matches are 79 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 78 in the County Championship, 8 in One Day Internationals, 2 in Test matches and 1 in Twenty20 Internationals. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (41 matches), County Championship (40 matches) and NatWest T20 Blast (25 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Worcestershire (157 matches), Durham (16 matches), Nottinghamshire (15 matches) and Leicestershire (14 matches).

Of the 168 matches, 145 produced a winner, 21 were drawn, 2 were tied.

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 86 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 38 (44.2%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are BL D'Oliveira (4,074 runs in 154 innings), DKH Mitchell (3,142 runs in 107 innings), OB Cox (2,849 runs in 123 innings), JD Libby (2,502 runs in 86 innings) and JM Clarke (2,446 runs in 75 innings).

The leading wicket takers are J Leach (227 wickets), EG Barnard (130 wickets), DY Pennington (102 wickets), TAI Taylor (97 wickets) and CAJ Morris (95 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 8 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 236.1 and the side batting second 163.2.

In 79 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 170.9 and the side batting second 155.1.

The first innings of 78 the County Championship matches here averaged 284.1 runs.

The toss is recorded in 168 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 107 (63.7%) and to bat in 61.

Among the 145 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 75 times (51.7%).

Batters at the ground hit 11,504 fours and 1,394 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.8 balls; 57.1% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 57%, bowled 19%, lbw 17%, run out 3% and caught and bowled 2% of the 3,605 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 59%, bowled 20%, lbw 18%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 1% of the 3,497 times.

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

Matches by decade: 2000s (2), 2010s (78) and 2020s (88).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (41 matches), County Championship (40 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (25 matches), Specsavers County Championship (24 matches), LV= County Championship (14 matches), Vitality Blast Men (13 matches), ICC Women's Championship (4 matches) and Australia Women tour of England (2 matches).