List of Middlesex County Cricket Club grounds

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Interior view of Lord's cricket ground
Lord's became Middlesex's home ground in 1869. It is often referred to as "the home of cricket".

Middlesex County Cricket Club was established on 2 February 1864; before then there had been an informal county team, which had played first-class cricket from 1787. Middlesex County Cricket Club has played first-class cricket from 1864, List A cricket from 1963 and Twenty20 cricket from 2003,[A] using a number of home grounds during that time. The Cattle Market Ground in Islington hosted the club's first home fixture in first-class cricket against Sussex in 1864; Lord's in St John's Wood hosted the club's first home List A match against Northamptonshire in 1963; and the club's first home fixture in Twenty20 cricket against Kent in 2003 was at the Old Deer Park in Richmond. Middlesex have played home matches at fourteen grounds, but have played the majority of their home fixtures at Lord's, which also holds Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket matches.

The administrative county of Middlesex ceased to exist in 1965 when its county council was dissolved,[1] and the majority of the county club's grounds are now in Greater London.

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