 The ground was completed by the year 2000, with the first match held at the ground seeing Montserrat play a minor match against Antigua and Barbuda.The following year, the touring South Africans played at the ground against the University of West Indies Vice-Chancellor's XI, with half the islands population reportedly attending.This match did not hold first-class status, it was not until 2003 that first-class cricket returned to Montserrat when the Leeward Islands played West Indies B in the 2002/03 Carib Beer Cup.