The East Melbourne Cricket Ground was a grass oval sports venue located at the southwest corner of Jolimont Road and Jolimont Parade (now known as Wellington Parade South) in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Its closure was predicated by the annexure of the land by Victorian Railways to enable stabling and marshalling of trains as part of the electrification of Melbourne's metropolitan rail service.

The best known use for the sport were the interstate representative matches between the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales in the 1880s.

[11] The ground was occasionally used as a venue for lacrosse, and hosted Victoria's first intercolonial lacrosse match on 1 September 1888, against South Australia[15] (the first intercolonial match in Australia was played between Queensland and New South Wales a year earlier[16]).

[17] After the 1921 football season, the ground was closed and then demolished to make way for an extension of the Jolimont Yard railway sidings.

It had initially tried to move to the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve, resulting in a major off-field political struggle between the Essendon Association and North Melbourne Football Clubs, the VFL and the VFA.