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Cricket - Cities That Have Hosted Test Matches

Ninety-six different cities (and towns) have hosted cricket test matches. How many can you name?
As of January 2025
We will update once each year
Quiz by Jerry928
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First submittedMay 28, 2014
Times taken19,875
Average score42.7%
Rating4.44
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city
Abu Dhabi
Adelaide
Ahmedabad
Auckland
Bahawalpur
Bangalore
Basseterre, St Kitts
Belfast
Birmingham
Bloemfontein
Bogra
Bridgetown, Barbados
Brisbane
Bulawayo
Cairns
Canberra
Cape Town
Cardiff
Centurion
Chandigarh
Chattogram
Chennai
Chester-le-Street
Christchurch
city
Colombo
Cuttack
Darwin
Dehradun
Delhi
Dhaka
Dharamshala
Dubai
Dublin
Dunedin
Durban
East London
Faisalabad
Fatullah
Galle
Georgetown, Guyana
Gqeberha
Gros Islet, St Lucia
Gujranwala
Hamilton
Harare
Hobart
Hyderabad
Hyderabad
city
Indore
Jaipur
Jalandhar
Johannesburg
Kandy
Kanpur
Karachi
Khulna
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingstown, St Vincent
Kolkata
Lahore
Leeds
London (Lords)
London (The Oval)
Lucknow
Manchester
Melbourne
Mohali
Moratuwa
Mt Maunganui
Multan
Mumbai
Nagpur
city
Napier
North Sound, Antigua
Nottingham
Pallekele
Perth
Peshawar
Port of Spain, Trinidad
Potchefstroom
Pune
Rajkot
Ranchi
Rawalpindi
Roseau, Dominica
St George's, Grenada
St John's, Antigua
Sharjah
Sheffield
Sheikhupura
Sialkot
Southampton
Sydney
Sylhet
Visakhapatnam
Wellington
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75 Comments
Akula
+12
Level 79
Oct 30, 2019
Top quiz there Jerry!
OfficerDibble
+4
Level 84
Oct 31, 2019
Chester-le-Street is not a city. May be true of a few others.
Jerry928
+9
Level 76
Oct 31, 2019
By "city" here, we mean a location, with lots of people living in it, with a cricket ground in it, where Test matches have been played.
simonlindsay365
+6
Level 26
Nov 7, 2019
Well, you should probably say that in the title
AlexThirkell
+3
Level 74
Jun 7, 2021
I got it by guessing Newcastle, which I thought was oddly generous.

Fun quiz, made my brain hurt by trying to remember the Indian subcontinent places though!

tshalla
+1
Level 77
Feb 1, 2025
I've actually been to Gros Islet. Not allowing Castries to cover for it - the height of cruelty, Jerry! (It's a different place, I know, but it's about nine kms away, and there's not much of a "city" break.) Fun quiz.
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Feb 1, 2025
Castries and Gros Islet are two different districts, albeit adjacent as you say, on St Lucia.
Algernon
+7
Level 73
Nov 1, 2019
Great idea for a quiz. I might be tempted to split them by test playing nation, but not name the nation, so a colum or the like for each. Given there are nearly a hundred answers a little help/guidance is no bad thing.
Jerry928
+4
Level 76
Nov 1, 2019
Nice idea - here it is, although we've gone the whole enchilada and offer country hints as well.
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 93
Jan 30, 2025
The other quiz is better, should also be featured. I used that one to learn them all to get 100% on this one…
mf3
+2
Level 89
Nov 2, 2019
Typing in Antigua brings up St. Johns, and a number of other Caribbean island names bring up their cricket cities, but Barbados doesn't bring up Bridgetown.
tshalla
+5
Level 77
Oct 14, 2020
Interesting. I'd prefer if doing that wouldn't give the answer, but that's just me. I tried Castries and then gave up for St. Lucia and for other smaller West Indian nations. Too bad, since there were a few smaller ones to get. I've been to Gros Islet - one sleepy little burg. Hard to believe something of sporting consequence happened there! Of course, I first watched cricket in Kandy, and thus completely forgot and left off all Sri Lankan locations.
mf3
+1
Level 89
Nov 2, 2019
Why is Hyderabad in there twice?
Jerry928
+20
Level 76
Nov 2, 2019
Because there are two cities with that name that have hosted Test matches. One in India, the other in Pakistan.
JackBeNimble
+2
Level 82
Nov 2, 2019
Reading some of the above comments, I'm a bit annoyed because I couldn't think of any towns or cities in countries which I knew had hosted test matches, but which would apparently have appeared had I just entered the countries themselves. Could you please amend the instructions accordingly?
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Nov 2, 2019
Is there a reason for allowing the country type-ins @Jerry928?
Jerry928
+8
Level 76
Nov 3, 2019
Once upon a time it seemed like a good idea - some West Indies ground locations were a bit obscure! But it does make it inconsistent across the quiz, so the country names have just been removed as type-ins.
ChaosQuizzer
+1
Level 35
Feb 17, 2025
With the West Indies the games were more known as being played based on country rather than city. The city names were almost never used.
CRey
+3
Level 80
Nov 6, 2019
cricket fan and still only managed 54.. I missed 2 from UK as well.. great quiz Jerry.. some more maybe?
Akula
+5
Level 79
Nov 7, 2019
Great to see another cricket quiz get featured!
WelshWizard
+6
Level 86
Nov 7, 2019
Should accept Durham for Chester-le-Street, really.
simonlindsay365
+1
Level 26
Nov 7, 2019
Why ? They are two different places, though Chester-le-Street is in COUNTY Durham
PrettyTiedUp
+2
Level 70
Nov 7, 2019
I tried Durham as Chester le Street is not a city
Jerry928
+5
Level 76
Nov 7, 2019
Chester-le-Street is a smallish (25,000) town at the centre of a triangle bounded by Newcastle, Sunderland and the City of Durham, and is about 10 km from each of them. It lies within the Metropolitan Area of Newcastle (called Tyneside-Wearside to be exact, pop 1.6 million). All the cricket stats name the Riverside Ground to be in Chester-le-Street. The odd name comes from a chester, a fortified camp from Roman times, and a street was indeed a Roman "street", or the main road, that ran through town.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Nov 10, 2019
Maybe at least accept Newcastle, then?
Jerry928
+4
Level 76
Nov 10, 2019
A bit of a stretch, but OK. Chester-le-Street is in County Durham, and Newcastle is in the adjacent country of Tyne and Wear, but the drive between the two is close to continuously urban.
Drinker
+1
Level 67
Nov 7, 2019
Well done, very funny. Beyond India, it gets such random.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 81
Nov 8, 2019
Not really. Name every big city in India, the UK, Ireland, South Africa and other nearby countries also colonized by the British, the Caribbean, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, and a few cities in the UAE that are overwhelmingly Indian and I think you get more or less all of them. Pretty sure all of these places were at one point part of the British Empire. The game was invented in England and then exported to the rest of the empire.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Nov 8, 2019
I had no idea where "Chester-le-Street" was... but looked it up and apparently it's in England.
Thisisreal
+1
Level 92
Feb 28, 2021
That’s what I did. Don’t know much about cricket, apart from it being popular in the former British Empire countries, so I typed all cities I could think of in those countries. And I got 63 right!
dhyeypatel
+2
Level 43
Feb 24, 2024
I was surprised at the absence of Liverpool and bristol. And then you have Chester Le Street
sjj93gg
+1
Level 55
Feb 1, 2025
Cricket arose in England around counties rather than cities, and the main team in the north-west of England is Lancashire, whose territory includes both Manchester and Liverpool (or rather it did - Lancashire used to be bigger than it is now). The Lancashire team chose to have their home in in Manchester rather than Liverpool, so that is where the big cricket stadium has existed in that part of England (Lancashire have played matches in Liverpool, but it was at a smaller ground not suited for big international matches).
fitheach
+1
Level 58
Jan 23, 2020
Funny? In what way?
comjag
+2
Level 90
Nov 10, 2019
It would be interesting if the answer also showed how many tests each city had hosted (from an educational viewpoint). May not be particularly practical though.
Akula
+1
Level 79
Nov 20, 2019
Needs an update as of today! Great to see test cricket back in NZ.
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
Nov 22, 2019
The aim is to update this once each year, otherwise everyone's points will get zeroed too quickly every time a new city appears.
Akula
+1
Level 79
Nov 22, 2019
Fair enough. Test looks to be fairly even at the moment!
Findlay
+2
Level 81
Feb 16, 2020
Name the cities of the British Empire.
JackintheBox
+3
Level 80
Aug 18, 2021
*Not including Canada, or cities in Africa outside of southern Africa.
Jerry928
+3
Level 76
Aug 19, 2021
Although Toronto has, surprisingly, hosted One Day International matches.
JorgonQ
+2
Level 86
Mar 27, 2020
Pro Tip: Name large cities in commonwealth countries!
txv2
+2
Level 59
Apr 16, 2020
May be Pretoria should be accepted for Centurion?
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
Apr 16, 2020
OK; it's about 25 km from Pretoria, but the two cities seem to be a part of one conurbation.
cpgatbyu
+1
Level 87
Jun 6, 2021
82% got Centurion. Wow! I can't even find a list of South Africa's largest cities long enough to contain it.
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
Jun 7, 2021
Some of those correct answers will have typed in Pretoria - see our comment immediately above.
Fuse
+2
Level 78
Jun 7, 2021
Very good quiz Jerry! I got only 39, but I forgot most of South Africa and India, and forgot Pakistan. Deserving of the feature!
doctors
+1
Level 83
Jun 8, 2021
The Pakistan and Bangladesh ones make this quite hard
rocamorar
+3
Level 78
Jun 8, 2021
It doesn't seem fair that "East London" is not given with "London", since the test just ask for cities.

Also, the rest of the official capital tests in jetpunk allow "kingston" as a type-in for "kingstown" (st vincent). It'd be great to maintain consistency. :)

Interesting test, btw.

kempo
+3
Level 88
Jun 8, 2021
East London is a city in South Africa.
Jerry928
+4
Level 76
Jun 8, 2021
As a general principle, we invite quizzers to make their quiztaking a learning experience. Asking quizsetters to make quizzes easier simply means your learning experience will be weakened. Much better, here, to use this to learn a bit about the very different cities in Jamaica and St Vincent!
mrputter
+5
Level 85
Jan 17, 2025
I hear you in the general case, Jerry, but I am going to push back at you on the Kingston-vs-Kingstown issue here.

I'm very well aware of the difference between the both of them... however as @rocamorar says, the convention here on Jetpunk (for better or for worse) is to give credit for both when either is entered.

Whether you agree with that or not (and I actually don't think I do myself) I'd argue that ignoring that convention is the worse sin, because people will enter one of them, assume that they've been given credit for both if/where it is due, and carry on. Like I just did now. I entered "Kingston," saw that only the one in Jamaica was given, and just figured "huh, I guess they never played a test match in Kingstown. I suppose the St. Vincent cricket oval must be in some other, adjacent, parish or something."

Not because I don't know about both cities, and not because I don't know they're spelled differently, but because I have certain expectations when I'm on this site.

overtired
+3
Level 86
Feb 1, 2025
Same here. Assumed that Kingstown wasn't an answer as the usual type-in didn't give it.
sumguy
+6
Level 86
Jun 9, 2021
I'm so used to getting Kingstown when I type Kingston in capital quizzes that I didn't bother to type them separately.
AllenY
+1
Level 68
Sep 5, 2021
could st george be accepted for st george's?
Jerry928
+6
Level 76
Sep 5, 2021
That's a town in Utah, and it hasn't hosted a test match.
spingospungo
+4
Level 57
Aug 15, 2022
yet
Ctinggi
+1
Level 58
Mar 24, 2022
can you also pls do one for ODIs?
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Mar 25, 2022
Here it is!. We made this back in 2014, so we'll get it updated shortly.
Byterapper
+4
Level 97
Jul 1, 2022
You should add Gqeberha as alternative spelling for Port Elizabeth
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Jul 2, 2022
Thanks for that - will update this.
EcceHomo
+1
Level 84
Nov 8, 2023
Damn, I got 53/95, and I missed a massive Australian city !

The ones I missed were mainly in India / Pakistan / Bangladesh.

Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Nov 15, 2023
Accept Vizag for Visakhapatnam?
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Nov 16, 2023
OK
mrzli86
+1
Level 92
Oct 13, 2024
Why Rodney Bay is not accepted?
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
Jan 15, 2025
Added as a type-in for Gros Islet.
AAAA01
+1
Level 42
Jan 15, 2025
Excellent quiz, I scored 65/95 on this.
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 93
Jan 16, 2025
Great quiz, would be fantastic on a world map
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 86
Jan 19, 2025
I guess Liverpool can't be bothered.
sjj93gg
+1
Level 55
Feb 1, 2025
Eh? Why would it when the big local cricket stadium is in Manchester.
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 72
Feb 1, 2025
It was nice knowing you
Bletsch
+1
Level 70
Feb 2, 2025
Jolly fun quiz, thanks! I know nought of cricket, so just entered every city I could think of in what was the British Empire!
SpicyMapping
+2
Level 43
Feb 2, 2025
have no idea what a test match is and got 45%, pretty proud of that
Jerry928
+3
Level 76
Feb 2, 2025
Learn all about test cricket (and test matches) right here. It's kinda weird, I've been a cricket fan all my life, but have never wondered why international cricket matches have such a strange name.
TurkeyCookTime
+1
Level 83
Mar 9, 2025
I missed Kingstown because it normally accepts when you type Kingston. Probably should add that as a type-in.
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Mar 11, 2025
They are very different locations! Kingston is in Jamaica, and Kingstown is in St Vincent.
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