Town Ground, Kettering

The Town Ground in Kettering, England was used by Northamptonshire for 65 first-class cricket matches between 1923 and 1971. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/554_f.html | title=First-Class Matches played on Town Ground, Kettering | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive] It also staged four List A games in the early 1970s,cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/554_f.html | title=List A Matches played on Town Ground, Kettering | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive] and has occasionally been used by Northamptonshire's Second XI. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/554_sec.html | title=Second XI Championship Matches played on Town Ground, Kettering | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive]

Records

First-class

* Highest team total: 571/9 declared by Sussex v Northamptonshire, 1928 [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/554/f_Highest_Team_Totals.html | title=Town Ground, Kettering - Highest Team Totals in first-class cricket | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive]
* Lowest team total: 27 by Northamptonshire v Yorkshire, 1933 [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/554/f_Lowest_Team_Totals.html | title=Town Ground, Kettering - Lowest Team Totals in first-class cricket | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive] :*George Macaulay took 7-9 for Yorkshire in this innings. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/14/14656.html | title= Northamptonshire v Yorkshire in 1933 | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive]
* Highest individual innings: 232 by George Cox junior for Sussex v Northamptonshire, 1939 [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/554/f_Centuries.html | title=Town Ground, Kettering - Centuries in first-class cricket | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive]
* Best bowling in an innings: 9-66 by Reginald Partridge for Northamptonshire v Warwickshire, 1934 [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/554/f_Most_Wickets_in_Innings.html | title=Town Ground, Kettering - Seven Wickets in an Innings in first-class cricket | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive]
* Best bowling in a match: 16-35 by Bill Bowes for Yorkshire v Northamptonshire, 1935 [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/554/f_Most_Wickets_in_Match.html | title=Town Ground, Kettering - Most Wickets in a Match in first-class cricket | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive]

List A

* Highest team total: 157/6 (40 overs) by Sussex v Northamptonshire, 1970Same match.]
* Lowest team total: 80 (30.4 overs) by Nottinghamshire v Northamptonshire, 1972 [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/554/a_Lowest_Team_Totals.html | title=Town Ground, Kettering - Lowest Team Totals in one-day matches | accessdate=2007-05-13 | publisher=CricketArchive]
* Highest individual innings: 67 by Peter Willey for Northamptonshire v Sussex, 1970
* Best bowling in an innings: 4-17 by Sarfraz Nawaz for Northamptonshire v Leicestershire, 1971; and by Bob Cottam for Northamptonshire v Nottinghamshire, 1972

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