Queen's Park Oval

The Queen’s Park Oval’s Crick­et Her­itage Mu­se­um is located at the Bri­an Lara Pavil­ion on Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain and was officially launched and opened to the pub­lic on No­vem­ber 25th 2009.

The mu­se­um is a col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort be­tween the Queen’s Park Crick­et Club and the Min­istry of Tourism and show­cas­es the his­to­ry of crick­et in T&T and in the West In­dies from the ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry, with spe­cial at­ten­tion to the events that took place at the Queen’s Park Oval.

There is a record of the de­vel­op­ment of the Club from its days at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah to the very first days at the Queen’s Park Oval.

The mu­se­um’s cu­ra­tor is Mr. Stephen Al­mon­doz who has been a longstanding and dedicated club member since 1963. His hard work and diligent caretaking and record keeping has been instrumental to the clubs accumulation of precious memorabilia and archives.

Among the arte­facts in the mu­se­um are an au­to­graphed bat of the 1950 West In­dies Team that won its first Test over Eng­land at Lord’s, the orig­i­nal deed which trans­ferred the present premis­es to the club, the first tenor pan tuned by El­lie Man­nette one and one of the orig­i­nal turn­stiles in­stalled in the ground.

There is al­so a spe­cial sec­tion de­vot­ed to the Bri­an Lara era which in­cludes the bats he used dur­ing his world record break­ing in­nings of 375, 501 not out, 400 not out and a video chart­ing the high­lights of his ca­reer. The Queen’s Park Crick­et Club was found­ed in 1891 and cur­rent­ly has over 3,000 mem­bers. It has pro­duced sev­er­al no­table play­ers in­clud­ing Jef­frey Stollmey­er, Ger­ry Gomez, Michael Joey Carew, Bryan and Char­lie Davis, Deryck Mur­ray, Bri­an Lara, Dwayne and Dar­ren Bra­vo, Kieron Pol­lard and Adri­an Barath.