The Rose Bowl, Southampton: cricket results and records

The Rose Bowl, Southampton appears in 278 recorded matches, the first on 10 July 2003 and the latest on 24 September 2026. The matches are 133 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 82 in the County Championship, 32 in One Day Internationals, 24 in Twenty20 Internationals and 7 in Test matches. 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 Hampshire (166 matches), England (50 matches), Southern Brave (48 matches) and Essex (21 matches).

Of the 278 matches, 233 produced a winner, 39 were drawn, 2 were tied and 4 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 679/7 by Worcestershire against Hampshire on 29 June 2025.

The lowest completed total is 56 by Northamptonshire against Hampshire on 18 May 2023.

In the 183 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 100 (54.6%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are JM Vince (7,209 runs in 203 innings), LA Dawson (3,934 runs in 144 innings), NRT Gubbins (2,534 runs in 72 innings), JHK Adams (2,377 runs in 72 innings) and BC Brown (1,949 runs in 58 innings).

The leading wicket takers are KJ Abbott (251 wickets), LA Dawson (242 wickets), Mohammad Abbas (101 wickets), JK Fuller (100 wickets) and BTJ Wheal (88 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 267 by Z Crawley against Pakistan on 21 August 2020, 266 by AJ Hose against Hampshire on 29 June 2025 and 240 by JM Vince against Essex on 15 June 2014.

The best bowling figures are 9 for 40 by KJ Abbott against Somerset on 16 September 2019, 8 for 46 by KJ Abbott against Somerset on 16 September 2019 and 8 for 51 by RD Chahar against Hampshire on 24 September 2025.

In 31 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 261.2 and the side batting second 213.6.

In 24 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 175.7 and the side batting second 141.6.

In 131 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 153.1 and the side batting second 136.7.

The first innings of 82 the County Championship matches here averaged 329.4 runs.

The toss is recorded in 278 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 150 (54.0%) and to bat in 128.

Among the 233 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 113 times (48.5%).

Batters at the ground hit 14,696 fours and 1,780 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 12.2 balls; 52.8% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 57%, bowled 19%, lbw 14%, run out 4% and caught and bowled 2% of the 4,934 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 60%, bowled 20%, lbw 15%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 2% of the 4,722 times.

That is 59.3 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (11), 2010s (101) and 2020s (166).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (45 matches), County Championship (42 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (25 matches), The Hundred Men's Competition (25 matches), Specsavers County Championship (24 matches), The Hundred Women's Competition (24 matches), LV= County Championship (16 matches) and Vitality Blast Men (14 matches).