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Cricket match at Pukekura Park, 2007

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Cricket match at Pukekura Park, 2007

Pukekura Park in New Plymouth is regarded as one of the most beautiful cricket grounds in the world. Set beside Pukekura Park gardens, it features two hills which are ideal as natural grandstands. Here, spectators watch a game of Twenty20 cricket on 15 January 2007.

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Jock Phillips, Sports venues – The first city sports grounds, 1850 to 1914, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/41314/cricket-match-at-pukekura-park-2007 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 12 April 2013.