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| Location | Dunstable, Bedfordshire | ||
| Establishment | 1892 (first recorded match) | ||
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Lancot Park is a cricket ground in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. The first recorded match on the gound was in 1892, when Bedfordshire played Marylebone Cricket Club.[1] The ground hosted its first Minor Counties Championship match 102 years later, when Bedfordshire played Northumberland in 1994. From 1994 to 2008, the ground played host to 13 Minor Counties Championship matches, with the final Minor Counties Championship match played to date at the ground in 2008 seeing Bedfordshire host Suffolk.[2] The ground has also hosted 5 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches, the most recent of which saw Bedfordshire play Buckinghamshire in 2009.[3]
The ground has also hosted a singleList-A match, which was between Bedfordshire and the Derbyshire Cricket Board in the 1st round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, which was played in 2001.[4]
The Northamptonshire Second XI have also used the ground for Second XI Championship matches.[5] In local domestic cricket, Goldington Bury is the home ground of Dunstable Town Cricket Club, who play in the Hertfordshire Cricket League.[6] Next to the cricket ground is the football pitch Totternhoe F.C. play on.