LC_de_Villiers_Oval

Tuks Cricket Oval

Tuks Cricket Oval

Cricket ground in Pretoria, South Africa

Tuks Cricket Oval or LC de Villiers Oval is a cricket ground in Pretoria, South Africa. It is located in the premises of the Pretoria University. It is an occasional home ground for Northerns cricket team.

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The university's High Performance Centre which was established in 2002 has become the favored location for the pre-departure camps of Team South Africa in addition to being chosen by several national and international federations as their preferred specialization centre.[1]

Oval consist of 6 cricket fields, 3 Football fields, one rugby, two hockey field. Stadium is also shared with athletics. All field has floodlights with capacity of 2,000 persons. The oval hosted two Youth ODIs in 1998 ICC Under-19s World Cup[2] and five women's ODIs in 2005 International Women's Cricket Council World Cup.[3]

In 2013, Indian opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan scored unbeaten 248 run on this ground against South Africa A.[4]

Tournaments hosted

References

  1. [1]
    Pretoria University Archived 2014-09-04 at archive.today
  2. [2]
    Youth ODIs
  3. [3]
    Women's ODI
  4. [4]
    cricketarchive

25°45′03″S 28°14′50″E
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