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Basin Reserve is a cricket ground in Wellington, New Zealand used for staging test, first-class and one-day cricket. Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each. ... Alternative meanings at Wellington (disambiguation) A view of Wellington from the top of Mount Victoria. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, involving either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ... A night match at Old Trafford. ...

The ground is located two km south of what is now the CBD, at the foot of Mount Victoria. It is adjacent to present-day Government House, Wellington College and St Mark's Church and School. CBD may stand for: Customer and Deposit System Development Central business district Convention on Biological Diversity Cannabidiol, a cannabinoid from Cannabis sativa (hemp). ... Panorama of Wellington from Mount Victoria at night A view of Wellington looking north-west from the top of Mount Victoria. ... Government House is the name usually given to the residence of Governors-General, Governors and Lieutenant-Governors in the Commonwealth and the former British Empire. ... Motto: Lumen accipe et imperti Wellington College (in full, The Wellington College and Grammar School, sometimes just Coll) is a state school for boys located next to Government House and the Basin Reserve in Wellington, New Zealand. ... St Marks Church School is the only independent Anglican co-educational school in Wellington, New Zealand for children aged from four (Preschool) to around 12–13 (Year 8). ...

The area that is now Basin Reserve was originally a lake (known as the Basin Lake), and there were plans to connect it to the sea by a canal to make it an alternative inner city harbour, but an earthquake in 1855 uplifted the area nearly 1.8 m and turned the lake into a swamp. The swamp was drained and by 1866 the Basin Reserve became Wellington's official cricket ground. Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a trembling or a shaking movement of the Earths surface. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A freshwater swamp This article is about the wetland type (a landform). ... 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ...

A view of Basin Reserve with the stands in the background

The first test match played at the ground was between New Zealand and England, beginning 24 January 1930 and at least one test match has been played at the ground each season since. One-day international cricket has also been played at the Basin: regularly until 1999, after which it moved to the larger crowd capacity Westpac Stadium on the other side of Wellington. In what may be a one-off occasion, it returned during the Australian Tour in 2005 following a decision that the pitch at Hamilton's Westpac Park was unfit for cricket. Photo taken by User:Roisterer File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Photo taken by User:Roisterer File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Westpac Stadium Westpac Stadium (previously known as WestpacTrust Stadium) and, more colloquially, as The Cake-tin because of its shape, is a major sporting venue in Wellington, New Zealand. ... Waikato River passing through Hamilton Hamilton is New Zealands 4th-largest metropolitan area. ...

In addition to cricket, other sports have also used the Basin, including rugby (some historians claim that the first inter-school rugby match in the world was held at the Basin between Nelson College and Wellington College in 1870) and exhibition Australian rules football matches. Rugby football, as a catch-all term, may refer to two related but separate team sports: rugby league and rugby union. ... Nelson College is the oldest state secular secondary school in New Zealand founded on April 7, 1856 in Nelson, New Zealand. ... There are many schools known as Wellington College. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Australian rules football at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ...

One of the incidental quirks of the Basin is that it acts as reputedly the largest traffic island in the southern hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere is the half of a planets surface (or celestial sphere) that is south of the equator (the word hemisphere literally means half ball). On Earth it contains four continents (part of Africa, Australia, most of South America, and Antarctica) and four oceans (South Atlantic, Indian, Pacific...