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Rose Bowl
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Next Event
New Zealand Cricket Women vs West Indies Cricket Women
Sat 13 Jun 2026 17:30

Established
2001 (25 years old)

Capacity
15,000

Build Cost


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Country
England

Location
Hampshire

Timezone
UTC +00:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Coordinates
50.9240°N 1.3219°W

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		Upcoming
13 Jun	New Zeala	-	West Indie
16 Jun	New Zeala	-	Sri Lanka
16 Jun	England C	-	Ireland Cr
19 Jun	Ireland C	-	New Zealan
20 Jun	Australia	-	Netherland
26 Jun	Hampshire	-	Yorkshire
05 Jul	Hampshire	-	Kent Spitf
		Results
02 Jun	Hampshire	173 - 144	Sussex Sha
29 May	Hampshire	178 - 174	Surrey t20
26 May	Hampshire	200 - 170	Essex Eagl
15 May	Hampshire	421 - 229	Nottingham
01 May	Hampshire	467 - 536	Glamorgan
17 Apr	Hampshire	574 - 576	Somerset
03 Apr	Hampshire	324 - 461	Essex

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The Rose Bowl, known for sponsorship reasons as Ageas Bowl is a cricket ground and hotel complex in West End, Hampshire. It is the home of Hampshire County Cricket Club, who have played there since 2001.

It was constructed as a replacement for the County Ground in Southampton and also the United Services Recreation Ground in Portsmouth, which had been Hampshire's homes since 1882. Hampshire played their inaugural first-class match at the ground against Worcestershire on 9–11 May 2001, with Hampshire winning by 124 runs. The ground has since hosted international cricket, including One Day Internationals, matches in the 2004 Champions Trophy, two Twenty20 Internationals and Test matches in 2011, 2014 and 2018, when England played Sri Lanka and India. In 2020, the ground was used as one of two biosecure venues, alongside Old Trafford, for the tours involving West Indies, Pakistan and Ireland which were regulated due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In order to be able to host Test cricket, the ground underwent a redevelopment starting in 2008, which saw stands built to increase capacity and other construction work undertaken to make the hosting of international cricket at the ground more viable. A four-star Hilton Hotel with an integrated media centre overlooking the ground opened in 2015. Following Hampshire Cricket Ltd finding itself in financial trouble in 2011, the lease on the ground was sold to Eastleigh Borough Council for £6.5 million with a benefactor injecting a similar sum in 2012.

The Rose Bowl played host to the inaugural final of the 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship between India and New Zealand, resulting in New Zealand being crowned inaugural World Test Champions.

During ICC tournaments, the ground is referred to as the Hampshire Bowl due to sponsors names not being allowed.


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