Progress Park
{{short description|Cricket and football ground in Grenville, Grenada}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
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| location = Grenville, Grenada
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| seating_capacity = 1,000{{cite web|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/stadium/2944/Progress_Park.html|title=Progress Park|publisher=www.national-football-teams.com|access-date=2022-04-21}}
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| firstwt20idate = 6 September
| firstwt20iyear = 2011
| firstwt20ihome = West Indies
| firstwt20iaway = Pakistan
| lastwt20idate = 7 September
| lastwt20iyear = 2011
| lastwt20ihome = West Indies
| lastwt20iaway = Pakistan
| club1 = Windward Islands
| year1 = 2008/09
| date = 21 April
| year = 2022
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/ground/347355.html Ground profile
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Progress Park is a cricket and football ground in Grenville, Grenada.
History
The Park hosted its first representative first-class cricket match in the 2008–09 Regional Four Day Competition when the Windward Islands played Barbados. The following season the Park hosted a neutral first-class fixture between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/30/4959_f.html|title=First-Class Matches played on Progress Park, Grenville (2)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}} The West Indies A cricket team played two List A one-day matches there in November 2010, against a touring Pakistan A side,{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/30/4959_a.html|title=List A Matches played on Progress Park, Grenville (2)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}} while in the same year West Indies A also hosted the touring Zimbabweans at the Park for a Twenty20 match,{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/30/4959_tt.html|title=Twenty20 Matches played on Progress Park, Grenville (1)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}} which West Indies A won by 4 wickets due to an unbeaten 60 from Imran Khan.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/287/287310.html|title=West Indies A v Zimbabweans, 2010|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}} In September 2011, the Park played host to two Women's Twenty20 Internationals between West Indies women and Pakistan women.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/30/4959_witt.html|title=Women's International Twenty20 Matches played on Progress Park, Grenville (2)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}} Prior to 2009, there were discussions from the Grenadan Government to rename Progress Park in honour of the late politician Ben Jones.{{cite book|title=The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present|first=Shalini|last=Puri|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2014|page=151|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VK8aBgAAQBAJ|language=English|isbn=9781137066909}}
As a football venue, Progress Park has played host to two international friendly matches for the Grenada national football team, one in 2010 against Bermuda and another in 2017 against Martinique; both matches ended 2–2. The Park is the home ground of Paradise FC International, who play in the GFA Premier League.
Records
=First-class=
- Highest team total: 395 for 8 declared by Barbados v Windward Islands, 2008–09{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/205/205178.html|title=Windward Islands v Barbados, Regional Four Day Competition 2008/09|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}}
- Lowest team total: 137 all out by Windward Islands v Barbados, as above
- Highest individual innings: 109 by Brenton Parchment for Jamaica v Trinidad and Tobago, as above{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/30/4959/f_Centuries.html|title=Progress Park, Grenville - Centuries in first-class cricket|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}}
- Best bowling in an innings: 7-124 by Imran Khan for Trinidad and Tobago v Jamaica, as above{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/30/4959/f_Most_Wickets_in_Innings.html|title=Progress Park, Grenville - Seven Wickets in an Innings in first-class cricket|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}}
- Best bowling in a match: 7-91 by Odean Brown, for Jamaica v Trinidad and Tobago, as above{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/266/266770.html|title=Jamaica v Trinidad and Tobago, Regional Four Day Competition 2009/10|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}}
=List A=
- Highest team total: 172 all out (44.1 overs) by Pakistan A v West Indies A, 2010–11 (match 1){{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/307/307620.html|title=West Indies A v Pakistan A, 2010/11|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}}
- Lowest team total: 101 all out (31.4 overs) by West Indies A v Pakistan A, 2010–11 (match 1)
- Highest individual innings: 70 not out by Aamer Sajjad for West Indies A v Pakistan A, 2010–11 (match 2){{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/307/307621.html|title=West Indies A v Pakistan A, 2010/11|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}}
- Best bowling in an innings: 4-22 by Zulfiqar Babar for Pakistan A v West Indies A, 2010–11 (match 1){{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/30/4959/f_Most_Wickets_in_Innings.html|title=Progress Park, Grenville - Seven Wickets in an Innings in first-class cricket|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-04-21|url-access=subscription}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/ground/347355 Progress Park] at ESPNcricinfo
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Category:Cricket grounds in Grenada