The County Ground, Hove: cricket results and records

The County Ground, Hove, Brighton appears in 173 recorded matches, the first on 15 September 2012 and the latest on 15 September 2026. The matches are 83 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 77 in the County Championship, 9 in Twenty20 Internationals and 4 in One Day Internationals. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (45 matches), County Championship (42 matches) and NatWest T20 Blast (25 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Sussex (159 matches), Middlesex (17 matches), Glamorgan (17 matches) and Hampshire (16 matches).

Of the 173 matches, 136 produced a winner, 30 were drawn, 2 were tied and 5 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 756/4 by Leicestershire against Sussex on 11 July 2022.

The lowest completed total is 75 by Middlesex against Sussex on 18 August 2019.

In the 89 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 46 (51.7%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are TJ Haines (3,197 runs in 81 innings), BC Brown (2,832 runs in 83 innings), TP Alsop (2,661 runs in 79 innings), LJ Wright (2,568 runs in 75 innings) and JM Coles (2,376 runs in 63 innings).

The leading wicket takers are OE Robinson (199 wickets), JJ Carson (117 wickets), TS Mills (98 wickets), SJ Magoffin (87 wickets) and CJ Jordan (84 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 277* by CN Ackermann against Sussex on 11 July 2022, 258 by LWP Wells against Durham on 21 May 2017 and 253 by SD Robson against Sussex on 6 September 2021.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 34 by OE Robinson against Middlesex on 18 August 2019, 8 for 90 by GC Viljoen against Sussex on 12 September 2017 and 7 for 58 by OE Robinson against Middlesex on 4 May 2018.

In 9 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 121.4 and the side batting second 89.7.

In 81 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 172.6 and the side batting second 151.0.

The first innings of 76 the County Championship matches here averaged 315.1 runs.

The toss is recorded in 173 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 109 (63.0%) and to bat in 64.

Among the 136 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 64 times (47.1%).

Batters at the ground hit 12,103 fours and 1,593 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.3 balls; 56.8% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 60%, bowled 19%, lbw 14%, run out 3% and caught and bowled 3% of the 3,562 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 62%, bowled 20%, lbw 14%, caught and bowled 3% and stumped 1% of the 3,453 times.

That is 79.2 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2010s (79) and 2020s (94).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (45 matches), County Championship (42 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (25 matches), Specsavers County Championship (24 matches), Vitality Blast Men (13 matches), LV= County Championship (11 matches), Women's Ashes (3 matches) and New Zealand Women tour of England (3 matches).