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Cricket

The Rose Bowl is home to Hampshire Cricket – one of the 18 First Class cricketing counties in England and Wales.

The club was established in 1863 and has been the stamping ground of some of the legends of world cricket through the years including Australian spin bowler Shane Warne (right), West Indian fast bowler Malcolm Marshall and England batsman Robin Smith amongst many others.

These days the club can count Internationally honoured players as well as some of the most exciting prospects in English cricket amongst it's ranks. Click The Royals to find out more about the players.

Hampshire’s major honours include winning the County Championship in 1961 and 1973. However, the club has also won nine limited overs titles, creating history in 2010 by becoming the first British domestic side to win a Twenty20 Cup on home turf in front of a packed Rose Bowl crowd of 25,000 people.

The club play in three domestic competitions – the LV= County Championship, the Clydesdale Bank 40 competition and the Friends Life t20 cup. During the season (which runs from April to September), click Competitions and Statistics to find out more about the competitions themselves and see how Hampshire are doing in them. Then click Fixtures and Results to see match previews and reports as well as to buy tickets.

Finally, The Rose Bowl also plays host to International sport and has seen England play all the major powerhouses of world cricket on its square. It is in the process of becoming the Britain’s first Model Test match ground and was, in 2010, awarded “Best International Ground” in an independent ECB [England and Wales Cricket Board] survey.

In 2012 England play two Natwest Series One Day Internationals at the ground against the West Indies and South Africa. Click on the links to find out more.