St George's Park, Port Elizabeth, Cricket ground and public park in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
St George's Park is a cricket ground and public park in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, with a cricket field, an Olympic swimming pool, tennis courts, and lawn bowling greens. The grounds also contain the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, making this a place where sport and art sit side by side.
In 1889, St George's Park hosted the first Test cricket match ever played outside England or Australia, a moment that opened the sport to a wider world. That single match changed the shape of international cricket by proving that other countries could compete at the highest level.
The Mannville Open Air Theatre inside the park has hosted outdoor Shakespeare performances every year since 1971. Watching a play here, surrounded by trees and open sky, gives the visit a different feel from a typical city outing.
The park is easy to reach on foot from central Port Elizabeth, and the different facilities are well signed once you are inside the grounds. Visiting on a non-match day gives you more space to move around and explore at your own pace.
A brass band plays live during cricket matches at the ground, something you rarely find at other cricket venues in South Africa. This tradition draws fans who come as much for the event itself as for the game being played on the field.
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