Dannevirke Domain

{{Short description|Cricket ground in Dannevirke, New Zealand}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}}

{{Infobox cricket ground

| ground_name = Dannevirke Domain

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| country = New Zealand

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| location = Dannevirke, New Zealand

| establishment = 1904 (first recorded match)

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| club1 = Central Districts

| year1 = 1993

| date = 2 November

| year = 2011

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/21/1421.html Ground profile

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Dannevirke Domain is a park of about 20 hectares on the eastern fringe of the town of Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.{{cite web |title=Dannevirke |url=https://www.tararuadc.govt.nz/Living-Here/Our-Towns/Dannevirke |website=Tararua District Council |accessdate=18 February 2019}} Among its recreational facilities it includes a cricket ground.

The first recorded cricket match held at Dannevirke Domain was in January 1904, between teams from Waipukurau and Dannevirke, but the park was in use for sports for some years before then.{{cite journal |title=Cricket |journal=Hawke's Bay Herald |date=7 January 1904 |page=2 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBH19040107.2.8}} The first interprovincial cricket match on the ground came in March 1921 when Southern Hawke's Bay played Manawatu.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/21/1421_misc.html|title=Other matches played on Dannevirke Domain|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2 November 2011}} Between the 1920s and the 1980s, when Southern Hawke's Bay competed in interprovincial matches including the Hawke Cup, Dannevirke Domain was the team's home ground.

The ground held a single List A match in the 1992-93 Shell Cup when Central Districts played Otago,{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/21/1421_a.html|title=List A Matches played on Dannevirke Domain|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2 November 2011}} which resulted in a victory for Otago by 16 runs.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/56/56824.html|title=Central Districts v Otago, 1992/93 Shell Cup|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2 November 2011}}