Just after his eighteenth birthday in July 1866, Grace confirmed his potential once and for all when he scored 224 not out for All-England against Surrey at The Oval.

He passed 30 only once more, with 70 in the first innings of the Sixth Test at The Oval.

Cricket continued once the war began, but Hobbs ' benefit was moved from the Oval to Lord's.

President Richard Nixon followed her predictions through his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and met with her in the Oval Office at least once, in 1971.

It was once home to the South Melbourne Swans team, which played in the Victorian Football League ( VFL / AFL ), which played out of the Lake Oval ( now Bob Jane Stadium ) in nearby Albert Park, before relocating to Sydney in 1982 in a radical move, which eventually spawned the national Australian Football League.

The original gravel driveway that once surrounded the Oval has also been replaced by sidewalk.

While public pressure forced the Association to relent, the club never once played a game at the University Oval during its involvement in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership.

1899 saw Wainwright again of little use as a bowler once the harder pitches came in June, but he played a career-best 228 at the Oval and scored almost as many runs as in 1897.

He also held the record for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after overtaking Allan Border in an innings of 226 played at Adelaide Oval, Australia in November 2005.

The first Cup Final was held at The Oval on 16 March 1872, fought between the Wanderers and the Royal Engineers, watched by 2, 000 spectators.

The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches ( 1870-1872 ), the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever Rugby Union international match between England and Scotland in 1872.

Their first training session was held on 31 October 1994 at Fremantle Oval.

The racing is held on an " Ice Oval " track.

The Greenwich Village Games are held every four years and feature numerous sports and competitions held mainly at Bob Campbell Oval ( Gore Creek Oval ) and Lane Cove Aquatic Centre.

The Western Bulldogs Community Festival and Family Day is held every summer on Whitten Oval.

In 2011, The Adelaide Oval held its first Twenty20 International between Australia and England, a match which England won by 1 wicket.

Three meetings were held, and at the last of these, held at The Oval on 9 June 1873, the following rules were decided on:

Today, doctoral students defend their dissertations in the North Oval Room, and many events ( including monthly dinners for residents of the Lawn ) are held inside the Dome Room.

The club's first inter-county match, against Kent, was held at The Oval the following month and Surrey emerged victorious by ten wickets.

Fifteen matches were held, spread over sixteen days, at three venues: Edgbaston, The Rose Bowl and The Oval.

The 120m Mount Gambier Gift held annually on the first Saturday in December at Vansittart Oval is the 2nd richest professional footrace in South Australia.

While Tait went wicketless in the second innings, he held his spot to play in the final Test of the Ashes series at The Oval, taking 1 / 61 in the first innings and 1 / 28 in the second.

This neoclassical room, whose shape quickly led it to be called the Oval Room, was designed for research and study: here, scientific experiments would be conducted, public demonstrations held, and books, drawings and prints be viewed by the public.

Prior to the game, an ' anti-merger ' rally, led by Scott, was held at Hawthorn's then training ground, Glenferrie Oval.

In December 2011, Sydney played a ( 2-0 winning ) match at Kogarah Oval against Brisbane Roar, as the SFS was unavailable due to concerts being held at the ground that weekend.

The Minnesota Wild held their hockey jersey unveiling at the Oval, and notable visitors have included Dan Jansen, Bonnie Blair, Paul Wylie, and Neal Broten.

There are many events and sports held at the Oval, which hosts over 100, 000 guests each year.

The consolation night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams ( 5th to 12th on ladder ) out of the finals at the end of the home and away rounds.

In the timeless Fifth Test at The Oval, the highlight was Len Hutton's then world record score of 364 as England made 903-7 declared.

That record remained unbroken until 7 August 2005 when Andrew Flintoff scored five in the first innings and four in the second innings of the second Test at Edgbaston, and again until 12 September 2005, when Kevin Pietersen hit seven sixes in the second innings of the last Test at The Oval.

On 14 January, an all-time record Adelaide Oval crowd of 50, 962 watched Australia finish off England's first innings.

WG Grace scored an English record 170 at the Oval during this series.

At The Oval, England amassed a world record of 7 / 903 and their opening batsman Len Hutton scored an individual world record, by making 364.

( Listen here ) The record, which contains sound bites from Robert Kennedy and Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, extolled Pollard's qualifications for the Oval Office: " Those who saw him as C. W. Moss / Know this hippie is really boss!

The 1999 / 2000 Grand Final against Perth Glory at Subiaco Oval in Perth saw a record attendance of 43, 242, overtaking the 1997 figure in Brisbane and a record that would remain until the 2007 A-League Grand Final in Melbourne.

The record attendance for Bellerive Oval is 16, 719 for a One Day International between Australia and England on 14 January 2003.

That same year, Ali Brown posted what remains today a world record List A score of 268 against Glamorgan at The Oval, beating Graeme Pollock's former records score in the first of his two one-day double hundreds for Surrey.

Despite the end of a successful period, Surrey did post a List A world record score of 496 – 4 from 50 overs, the first of which was a maiden, against Gloucestershire at The Oval on 29 April 2007 ; Ali Brown top scored with 176 from just 97 deliveries.

An all-time record Adelaide Oval crowd of 50, 962 watched Australia finish off England's first innings for 341.

Pinky retained a 100 % winning record during the 8 home group games of the competition, as well as memorably captaining North London to the London Derby title over South London at the Oval during the Panthers T20 game against the Surrey Lions.

Brearley's extraordinary galvanising of Botham is regarded as one of the greatest feats of sporting psychology of all time: Botham recovered from personal ridicule following his winless captaincy record and his nosedive in form ( he had made a pair in the second Test at Lord's ) to take a first-innings 6 for 95 and score 50 and his famous 149 not out in the third Test at Headingley, bowl a spell of 5 wickets for 1 run in the fourth Test at Edgbaston, score 118 from 102 balls in the fifth Test at Old Trafford, and take a 10-wicket match haul ( 6 for 125 and 4 for 128 ) in the sixth Test at the Oval.

* The Oval third wicket partnership record: 268 with Graham Thorpe, 2003 v South Africa

He became the highest run-scorer for Western Australia in 4-day matches, after passing Tom Moody's old record of 8853 runs on 5 December 2007 against the Tasmanian Tigers at Bellerive Oval.

Although the Oval Test match in 2006 was poised as a victory for Pakistan before the controversy took place and had it not occurred, Inzamam's record would have had a win more and a loss less.

He has made only two international hundreds, 106 off 108 balls against South Africa at The Oval in 2003 ( when he shared an opening partnership of 200, an English record, with Marcus Trescothick ), and exactly 100 off 93 balls versus Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in 2004 / 05.

In the early 1980s, Hardcastle played the keyboards on several singles on the Oval record label by the dance music groups Direct Drive and First Light, before going solo.

The attendance at Subiaco Oval was 43, 242, the record attendance in Australian domestic football history until broken in 2006.

The ground record crowd for Richmond Oval was set in Round 5 of the 1969 season when 15, 742 turned up to see Westies take on a Glenelg side coached by none other than Neil Kerley.