Durham County Cricket Club is an English first-class cricket team based at the Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, County Durham.
Durham CCC was founded on May 23, 1882 and the club played its first competetive match on June 12 of that year, beating Northumberland by 4 wickets at the Ashbrooke Ground, Sunderland.
In 1989 the Club began the process of applying to become a first-class cricketing county and join the County Championship. First-class status was awarded in December 6, 1991 with Durham becoming the first new first-class county for 70 years. Their first season in the County Championship was the 1992 season.
Durham is English cricket's youngest first-class county. The County Ground at the Riverside is also the newest addition to the English test match circuit, which hosted the first match, England v Zimbabwe in the second npower Test, June 2003.
The full ground capacity, including permanent and temporary seating, is 15,000.
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