Bristol  Pic: Mark Thompson / Allsport

Bristol, to the cricket connoisseur, spells W G Grace. The guy who once came out to bat, got rapped on the pads, was given out LBW, and promptly marched up to the umpire and told him, waving around the 8000-seater ground, "They came to see me bat, not to see you umpire!" The home base of the West Indies team for this World Cup, this ground like many others in England has witnessed just one LOI match in its history.

Schedule: 16 May, West Indies v Pakistan
                23 May, Kenya v India

Cricket history:
The only match: Sri Lanka (206 in 56.1 overs) v N Zealand (209-5 in 39.2 overs), 13-6-1983
Hundreds: Nil
Highest score: 76 by Geoff Howarth for New Zealand
Five-wicket hauls: 1
Best bowling: 5-25 by Richard Hadlee for New Zealand

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