The first recorded
cricket match at the ground was in 1854, when South Wiltshire played an
All England Eleven. The ground first hosted Wiltshire County Cricket Club in 1888, and hosted its first
Minor Counties Championship match 17 years later when
Wiltshire played
Hertfordshire in 1905. The ground next hosted Wiltshire's home matches from 1923 to 1949 and then from 1958 to the present day. The ground has also hosted a single
MCCA Knockout Trophy match between Wiltshire and
Herefordshire. The ground has also hosted
List A matches. The first List-A match at the ground was between Wiltshire and
Scotland in the
2000 NatWest Trophy. The ground has hosted two further List-A matches involving Wiltshire: against
Ireland in the
2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, and
Kent in the
2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home of
South Wilts Cricket Club who play in the
Southern Premier Cricket League. South Wilts have been playing on the main ground since 1854. The second cricket ground was created in 1984 and Salisbury Wanderers played there from 1984 until 2001 where they folded. Since 2001, the second ground has been home of the club's Third and Fourth XI's. == Facilities ==