Bulawayo Athletic Club

Bulawayo Athletic Club[1] is a sports club in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The Bulawayo Athletic Club Ground is the 12,000-capacity stadium.

Bulawayo Athletic Club
Ground information
LocationBulawayo, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Coordinates20°09′53.41″S 28°35′36.54″E
Establishment1894
Capacity12,000
OwnerBulawayo Athletic Club
TenantsZimbabwe Cricket
International information
Only Test1 November 1992:
 Zimbabwe v  New Zealand
First ODI31 October 1992:
 Zimbabwe v  New Zealand
Last ODI8 March 2018:
 Afghanistan v  Hong Kong
Team information
Rhodesia (1951)
Matabeleland (1994-2009)
As of 8 March 2018
Source: ESPNcricinfo

History

The club was founded in 1894. Cricket is the main sport played at the club, but tennis, bowls, squash and billiards are also played. It has also been a significant venue for many international sporting events.[2]

On 12 August 2007, a fire broke out at the club, destroying the members' bar area and billiards rooms and causing damages of up to US$400,000. The Walkden Hall, the squash courts and the changing rooms were saved from the blaze. The fire was believed to have been started by an electrical fault.[2]

At the Hockey Africa Cup of Champions held in Bulawayo in 2014, the Bulawayo Athletic Club ladies team reached the competition's final.[3] Two Bulawayo Athletic Club players were in the gold medal winning Zimbabwe ladies hockey team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Patricia McKillop and Helen Volk.[4][5]

As a cricket venue

In the summer of 1992, the Zimbabwe national cricket team was granted Test status. Shortly afterwards, Bulawayo Athletic Club hosted one Test match (becoming the country's second Test venue, after Harare Sports Club) and one One Day International, with New Zealand the visitors in both.[6]

New Zealand won the ODI, on 31 October, by 22 runs. The Test began the following day, but was badly hit by rain and a lack of adequate covering, with ten hours of play lost.[6] In addition, the wicket was poor, as were the attendances (1,000 on the first day and a few hundred each day thereafter). Thus, when international cricket returned to Bulawayo, it was played at the nearby Queens Sports Club.[6]

Bulawayo Athletic Club continued to host domestic matches, and along with Queens Sports Club served as a home ground for the Matabeleland team.[7]

International Centuries

Test Centuries

Only 2 Test centuries have been scored at the venue.[8]

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsOpposing teamDateResult
1119Rod Latham New Zealand 214 Zimbabwe1 November 1992Drawn
2101*Kevin Arnott Zimbabwe 200 New Zealand1 November 1992Drawn

One Day International Centuries

Only 1 One Day International centuries have been scored at the venue.[9]

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsOpposing teamDateResult
1157*Calum MacLeod Scotland 146 Afghanistan4 March 2018Won

List of Five Wicket Hauls

Tests

Only one five wicket haul in Test matches have been taken at the venue.[10]

No. Bowler Date Team Opposing team Inn Overs Runs Wkts Econ Result
1Dipak Patel1 November 1992 New Zealand Zimbabwe240.411362.77Drawn

See also

References
  1. "Bulawayo Athletic Club". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. "Bulawayo Athletic Club The Club House at BAC was burnt to the ground on 12th August 2007". Bulawayo Athletic Club. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  3. "BAC successful despite final heartbreak". Southern Eye. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  4. "Helen Volk". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  5. "Patricia McKillop". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  6. "Bulawayo Athletic Club". espn.co.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  7. "Bulawayo Athletic Club". BigBashBoard.com. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  8. "Batting Records/ Test". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  9. "Batting Records/ One Day International". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  10. "Statistics - Statsguru - Test Matches - Bowling Records". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
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