Trent Bridge Cricket Ground

Trent Bridge cricket ground is an international ground located in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. Established in 1841.17,500 spectator can watch a match here. Trent Bridge is Tenants by Nottinghamshire country cricket club and ECB. It’s one end is Pavilion end and another end is Radcliffe Road end. The ground has hosted the ICC world cup semi-final between Pakistan and South Africa. Trent Bridge hosted its first test match in 1899 between England and Australia while the first ODI was played here in 1974 where England playing against Pakistan and the first T20 played here in 2009 between Bangladesh and India.

Trent Bridge is to be considered one of the best ground in the world. In 1998 Radcliffe Road Cricket Centre was opened in £ 7.2 Million. and the state of the art £1.9 million Fox Road stand, which has received awards for its architectural excellence. The latter includes a modernistic aircraft-wing roof and was opened in 2002 despite a conflict with a small group of local residents over the lack of sunlight that this would cause to their properties. Commencing in 2007.

 Trent Bridge has undergone redevelopment with the construction of a new stand to replace the Parr Stand and West Wing and the addition of one to five rows of extra seating at the front of several of the other stands This increased capacity from 15,358 to 17,500,[5] and the work was completed in time for the 2008 Test match against New Zealand. The stand was officially opened on 5 June by Prince Philip.The stand continued to be officially called the "New Stand" for a number of years, also being referred to as the Bridgford Road Stand, before being renamed the Smith Cooper Stand in a sponsorship deal from March 2016.Bowling takes place from the Pavilion End and the Radcliffe Road End, with the wickets laid a square of the Fox Road, William Clarke and Smith Cooper stands.

The highest team runs at the Trend Bridge is 658/8 by England against Australia and the lowest scored is 60 Australia against England in 2015 where Stuart Broad took 8/15 in the match. Mike Atherton is the highest scorer by 1083 runs at this ground while James Anderson took 60 wickets in test matches and in ODIs Andrew Strauss is the highest scores with 399 runs and James Anderson again is the highest wicket-taker here leading by 16 wickets.

Trent Bridge has a history of hosting football matches. Notts County Football Club played their important games at the ground from the 1860s and moved there permanently in 1883 when Nottingham Forest left. However, games early and late in the season had to be played elsewhere due to the cricket and Notts County finally left in 1910, moving to Meadow Lane.

Trent Bridge even hosted an international match, England beat Ireland 6–0 on 20 February 1897.