Crowds
The record attendance for Bellerive Oval is 16,719 for a One Day International between Australia and England on 14 January 2003. The first international match at the venue was again a One Day International between New Zealand and Sri Lanka on 12 January 1988 and attracted a then record crowd for an international in Hobart of 6,180. On 21 February 2010, a Twenty20 International match between Australia and the West Indies attracted a crowd of 15,575. This was the first international day-night cricket match played at Bellerive Oval.
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