St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury: cricket results and records

St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury appears in 161 recorded matches, the first on 29 June 2003 and the latest on 24 September 2026. The matches are 80 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 70 in the County Championship, 6 in One Day Internationals, 4 in Twenty20 Internationals and 1 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (44 matches), County Championship (40 matches) and NatWest T20 Blast (23 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Kent (150 matches), Essex (18 matches), Gloucestershire (17 matches) and Sussex (14 matches).

Of the 161 matches, 129 produced a winner, 29 were drawn and 3 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 722/6 by Northamptonshire against Kent on 29 June 2025.

The lowest completed total is 40 by Kent against Essex on 18 August 2019.

In the 87 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 47 (54.0%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are DJ Bell-Drummond (5,583 runs in 183 innings), JL Denly (3,674 runs in 123 innings), SA Northeast (2,873 runs in 72 innings), BG Compton (2,442 runs in 59 innings) and Z Crawley (2,433 runs in 90 innings).

The leading wicket takers are DI Stevens (153 wickets), ME Milnes (96 wickets), ME Claydon (85 wickets), G Stewart (77 wickets) and MW Parkinson (68 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 261* by LA Procter against Kent on 10 April 2026, 244 by DP Sibley against Kent on 30 June 2019 and 228* by RM Yates against Kent on 10 July 2023.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 75 by DI Stevens against Leicestershire on 28 August 2017, 7 for 22 by EA Perry against England on 7 July 2019 and 7 for 23 by SJ Cook against Kent on 18 August 2019.

In 78 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 173.1 and the side batting second 156.2.

The first innings of 69 the County Championship matches here averaged 330.7 runs.

The toss is recorded in 161 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 87 (54.0%) and to bat in 74.

Among the 129 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 66 times (51.2%).

Batters at the ground hit 10,862 fours and 1,287 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.7 balls; 55.5% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 56%, bowled 20%, lbw 16%, run out 4% and caught and bowled 2% of the 3,205 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 59%, bowled 21%, lbw 17%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 2% of the 3,090 times.

That is 75.5 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (2), 2010s (67) and 2020s (92).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (44 matches), County Championship (40 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (23 matches), Specsavers County Championship (19 matches), Vitality Blast Men (13 matches), LV= County Championship (11 matches), New Zealand Women tour of England (3 matches) and NatWest Series (1 matches).