out ground

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out ground (plural out grounds)

1. (cricket) A ground other than a team's home ground, used for occasional matches.
   • 2006, Edward Craig, Out of town but not out of favour, Cricinfo:

     Out ground cricket these days is not particularly fashionable for counties[...]

   • 2011, Luke Sutton, Luke at county cricket: That festival feel at Chesterfield and Dhoni's hair-raiser, Daily Mail:

     I love playing at out grounds because there is always a festival feel about the ground and they always have endearing, if not quirky, characteristics.

   • 2013, Andrew Glover, Remembering Yorkshire County Cricket Club's out grounds‎^[1], BBC:

     His best performance came at another out ground, St George's Road in Harrogate.

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