[5] The following year a Combined Leeward and Windward Islands team played a first-class match against Guyana in the 1976/77 Shell Shield.

[5] In 1978, the ground held its first List A match when the Leeward Islands played Trinidad and Tobago in the 1977/78 Geddes Grant/Harrison Line Trophy.

[6] Again in use by Montserrat throughout the 1980s, first-class cricket would not return there until 1994, when the Leeward Islands played Trinidad and Tobago in the 1993/94 Red Stripe Cup.

[5] The previous year, it had held a List A match between the Leeward Islands and Barbados in the 1992/93 Geddes Grant Shield.

[2] In June 1997, a major eruption of the volcano destroyed Plymouth and along with it Sturge Park,[7] burying the ground under layers of ash.