Major NZ Cricket Grounds

[crabs]

Anyone know which is the largest cricket ground in NZ? (field playing area, not crowd capacity). I know most of our grounds are relatively small compared to other countries. And which is the smallest? A ranking in order would be cracking! Have tried doing a google search but most of the stadium websites don't have this info.

[Ernest]

Eden park? - I know it seems the obvious choice, but I like you dad problems 'Googling' for the largest playing area, but -

Eden Park Stadium

Originally Posted by Eden Park Stadium

Eden Park is New Zealand's largest stadium.[..] Our rich sporting and social history, and our international profile, is unmatched by any other stadium in the country.

Is the largest stadium = to the largest playing area?.

[crabs]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is for capacity. If Eden Park does have the largest playing area than the rest of the NZ grounds must be postage stamp size.

[Rachael]

All ground details can be found here: Cricinfo - Grounds - New Zealand

[crabs]

Thanks Racheal, but can't seem to find anything there about the actual size of the playing fields, just crowd capacity.

[Ernest]

Not time to go through these myself, maybe just maybe it might be here:-

Category:Cricket grounds in New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Andy Mellon]

My initial thought would be that one of the specific-purpose cricket grounds would be largest - either Seddon Park or the Basin Reserve. However, having visited many cricket stadia in the UK, Australia and NZ, these two grounds are far from 'big' in terms of size of outfield.

[sittingduck]

Originally Posted by Ernest

Not time to go through these myself, maybe just maybe it might be here:-

Category:Cricket grounds in New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

just had a glance at a couple of grounds and couldn't find anything on size, just capacity.

It's definately not Eden Park though. But then I'm not sure what it is as I've only been to a couple of the grounds in NZ. The caketin in Wellington is my tentative guess.