The Oval: cricket results and records

The Oval, London appears in 318 recorded matches, the first on 20 June 2003 and the latest on 27 September 2026. The matches are 149 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 72 in the County Championship, 49 in One Day Internationals, 24 in Test matches and 24 in Twenty20 Internationals. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (49 matches), County Championship (42 matches) and NatWest T20 Blast (30 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Surrey (163 matches), England (72 matches), Oval Invincibles (40 matches) and Australia (21 matches).

Of the 318 matches, 271 produced a winner, 35 were drawn, 5 were tied and 7 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 820/9 by Surrey against Durham on 29 June 2025.

The lowest completed total is 44 by Glamorgan against Surrey on 25 July 2019.

In the 210 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 89 (42.4%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are RJ Burns (5,125 runs in 147 innings), OJ Pope (4,305 runs in 98 innings), JJ Roy (3,795 runs in 107 innings), DP Sibley (3,124 runs in 84 innings) and WG Jacks (3,106 runs in 94 innings).

The leading wicket takers are J Clark (166 wickets), SM Curran (145 wickets), TK Curran (137 wickets), DJ Worrall (136 wickets) and GJ Batty (99 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 311* by HM Amla against England on 19 July 2012, 305 by DP Sibley against Durham on 29 June 2025 and 274 by OJ Pope against Glamorgan on 21 September 2021.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 40 by KAJ Roach against Hampshire on 29 April 2021, 7 for 20 by TK Curran against Gloucestershire on 27 June 2015 and 7 for 35 by TK Curran against Northamptonshire on 22 September 2015.

The first innings of 24 Test matches matches here averaged 347.0 runs.

In 48 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 264.1 and the side batting second 224.4.

In 23 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 158.7 and the side batting second 138.9.

In 146 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 154.7 and the side batting second 141.6.

The first innings of 72 the County Championship matches here averaged 345.4 runs.

The toss is recorded in 318 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 221 (69.5%) and to bat in 97.

Among the 271 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 146 times (53.9%).

Batters at the ground hit 18,645 fours and 2,631 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.0 balls; 55.7% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 60%, bowled 18%, lbw 12%, run out 5% and caught and bowled 2% of the 5,630 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 63%, bowled 19%, lbw 13%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 2% of the 5,356 times.

That is 66.9 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (34), 2010s (118) and 2020s (166).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (49 matches), County Championship (42 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (30 matches), The Hundred Men's Competition (29 matches), The Hundred Women's Competition (27 matches), Specsavers County Championship (19 matches), ICC Champions Trophy (16 matches) and Vitality Blast Men (14 matches).