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{{Infobox cricket ground
|       ground_name = Roskear
|          nickname =
|           country = England
|             image =
|          location = [[Camborne]], [[Cornwall]]
|             coord = {{coord|50.2213|-5.2881|display=inline}}
|     establishment = 1905
|  seating_capacity =
|              end1 =
|              end2 =
|             year1 = 1906&ndash;2009
|             club1 = [[Cornwall County Cricket Club|Cornwall]]
|              date = 6 July
|              year = 2010
|            source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/373.html Ground profile
}}
'''Roskear''' is a street and area on the eastern edge of [[Camborne]], [[Cornwall]]. In the early 1900s, the area had a tram loop{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}}.
Roskear is known in the 2000s mostly for its [[cricket]] ground, which is located off South Roskear Terrace.   The ground is built on the site of the former North Roskear Mine, and is surrounded on all sides by housing. The ground has previously acted as a home ground for [[Cornwall County Cricket Club]] and has been the home of [[Camborne Cricket Club]] since 1905.<ref>{{cite news |title=Opening Of The New Ground |work=The Cornishman |issue=1402 |date=18 May 1905 |page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://camborne.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp|title=Camborne Cricket Club|publisher=www.camborne.play-cricket.com|accessdate=5 February 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120707053331/http://camborne.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp|archivedate=7 July 2012}}</ref>
==History==
Cornwall first played at the ground against [[Devon County Cricket Club|Devon]] in the 1906 [[Minor Counties Championship]].<ref name="MCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/373_minc.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played on Roskear, Camborne|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref>
A single Minor Counties Championship match was played there annually to 1911, after which two fixtures were held there each year until the First World War, as well as after the war in 1921 and 1922.<ref name="MCM"/>
With the exception of 1931, when two fixtures were held, each season after 1922 and up to World War II saw a single Minor Counties Championship fixture played there annually.<ref name="MCM"/>
Starting in 1947, the ground returned to hosting two matches per season, an arrangement which lasted until 1958; thereafter a single match was played annually, until 1969.<ref name="MCM"/>
Between 1970 and 1973, Cornwall didn't play at the ground, but did return in 1974, playing annually there until 1979. A single match was played there in 1981, after which Cornwall did not play at the ground for another decade.<ref name="MCM"/> They returned there in 1992, playing one Minor Counties Championship match there a season until 2000.<ref name="MCM"/>
[[List A cricket]] was first played there in 2001, when Cornwall played [[Cheshire County Cricket Club|Cheshire]] in the [[2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy|Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy]],<ref name="LAM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/373_a.html|title=List A Matches played on Roskear, Camborne|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref> which Cornwall won by 3 wickets. In that same season, the ground hosted its first [[MCCA Knockout Trophy]] match, when Cornwall played the [[Gloucestershire Cricket Board]], while the following season they played Devon in the same competition.<ref name="MCCA">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/373_mint.html|title=Minor Counties Trophy Matches played on Roskear, Camborne|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref>
A second List A match was played there in the [[2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy]], with [[Somerset Cricket Board]] as visitors, with Cornwall again winning.<ref name="LAM"/>
From 2003, the ground hosted six further Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which saw [[Wiltshire County Cricket Club|Wiltshire]] as the visitors in 2009. A total of 92 Minor Counties Championship matches have been played there.<ref name="MCCA"/>
The last MCCA Knockout Trophy match was played there in 2008 with [[Berkshire County Cricket Club|Berkshire]] as visitors.<ref name="MCCA"/>
==Cornish wrestling==
[[Cornish wrestling]] tournaments for prizes were held at Roskear cricket ground.<ref name="WBCA20061935">West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 20 June 1935.</ref><ref name="C10071884">Cornishman, 10 July 1884.</ref>
==Records==
===List A===
* '''Highest team total:''' 301/8 (50 overs) by [[Cornwall County Cricket Club|Cornwall]] v [[Somerset Cricket Board]], 2002<ref name="HIGH">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/373/a_Highest_Team_Totals.html|title=Roskear, Camborne - Highest Team Totals in List A matches|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref>
* '''Lowest team total:''' 256/5 (50 overs), by [[Cheshire County Cricket Club|Cheshire]] v Cornwall, 2001<ref name="HIGH"/>
* '''Highest individual innings:''' 80 by [[Jonathan Kent (cricketer)|Jonathan Kent]] for Cornwall v Somerset Cricket Board, 2002<ref name="SCORE">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/75/75285.html|title=Cornwall v Somerset Cricket Board, 2002|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref>
* '''Best bowling in an innings:''' 3/54 by [[Justin Stephens]] for Cornwall v Somerset Cricket Board, 2002<ref name="SCORE"/>
==See also==
{{Portal|Cricket|Cornwall}}
* [[Roskear Croft]]
* [[Hayle Railway]], which ran through Roskear
* [[List of Cornwall County Cricket Club grounds]]
* [[List of cricket grounds in England and Wales]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/ground/57598.html Roskear] at [[ESPNcricinfo]]
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/373.html Roskear] at CricketArchive
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[[Category:Cornwall County Cricket Club]]
[[Category:Cricket grounds in Cornwall]]
[[Category:Sports venues completed in 1905]]
[[Category:Camborne]]
[[Category:1905 establishments in England]]