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| Location | Staplegrove,Taunton,Somerset | ||||||
| Establishment | 2001 | ||||||
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| Only WT20I | 26 June 2011: Australia v New Zealand | ||||||
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Taunton Vale Sports Club (usually referred to as "Taunton Vale", "Vale" or "TVSC")[4] is a multi use community sports club located inTaunton,Somerset. Taunton Vale HC, Taunton Cricket and Taunton Vale Tennis Club are the resident sports clubs. It is also the regular home venue of bothSomerset County Cricket Club's Second XI, Somerset CCC also holding many of their games againstMCC Universities teams at the ground, which have so far included two first-class matches, in 2012 and 2015.
The sports club has two county standardcricket fields and a pavilion, a sand dressed hockey ATP, a 3G pitch, 4 netball/tennis hard courts and a multi use sports hall.The first LED sports lighting installation in the UK was installed on this site in 2014, providing competition level lighting across all artificial pitches and courts.
Somerset County Cricket Club hosted the inauguralfirst-class match at the ground in a 3-day game (31 March to 2 April 2012) againstCardiff MCCU,[4] which featured a county record partnership of 450 for the second wicket betweenNick Compton andJames Hildreth.[4] The game was also the first-class debut for Cardiff MCCU.[4]
The second first-class match at Taunton Vale took place from 2 to 4 April 2015, when Somerset playedDurham MCCU.[5]
Taunton Vale hosted a single Women'sTwenty20 International match in 2011, betweenAustralia andNew Zealand.[6]
The stadium has hosted followingODI matches till date.
| Team (A) | Team (B) | Winner | Margin | Year |
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| New Zealand | Australia | Australia | By 6 wickets | 2011 |
Gamington Netball Club and Taunton Netball Club and Taunton Croquet Club are also tenant users.
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