Location Mackay, Australia | Capacity 10,000 | |
Establishment 1968 (first recorded match) First ODI February 28, 1992:
India v Sri Lanka | ||
Ray Mitchell Oval (also known as Harrup Park) is a cricket ground in the city of Mackay, Queensland, Australia.
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Domestic matches
The first recorded match on the ground occurred when Queensland Country XI played against the touring West Indians in 1968, with Rohan Kanhai scoring 206 runs on the 2nd day. In 1978, the ground staged a single World Series Cricket "Country Cavaliers" match.
The ground held its first two List A one day matches in 1988, when Queensland played the touring Pakistanis on 3 and 4 December 1988.
The first first-class match to be played there came in 1995 when Queensland played against the touring Sri Lankans, with the match ending in a 273 run victory for Queensland, with Michael Kasprowicz taking match figures of 12/95. The second first-class game, and first Sheffield Shield game came in 2015 when New South Wales defeated Queensland in a close contest by 3 wickets. Queensland opener Matt Renshaw top scored with 170, and New South Wales spinner Will Somerville collected 7 wickets. A List A match was played there in October 2011 between Queensland and Tasmania in the 2011/12 Ryobi One Day Cup. The ground was then host to a 2016 Quadrangular series between Australia A, India A, South Africa A and Australia's National Performance Squad, being won by India A.
International matches
The ground was selected to hold a single One Day International match during the 1992 Cricket World Cup, with India and Sri Lanka playing a match against each other on the 28th of February. The match was abandoned after only playing two balls, due to rain, despite the best efforts of the groundstaff to dry the outfield.
Sri Lankan fast bowler Champaka Ramanayake and Indian batsman Krishnamachari Srikanth hold the unusual distinctions of being the only international bowler to have ever bowled in this match and the only international batsman of scoring the only run ever scored in international cricket here. The match was washed out after Champaka's first two deliveries. This was also debut match of Ajay Jadeja.