Tests: 49 (first in 1929/30).
ODIs: 25 (first in 1974/75).
Capacity: 13,000.
Ends: Vance St End, Scoreboard End.
Domestic team: Wellington.
The Basin Reserve, like Westpac Park in Hamilton, is a traditional Test match venue and has been recognised by New Zealand Cricket as such in recent seasons.
Over the best part of the last decade, the Basin has played host to the Boxing Day test, though in 2004 a change to a Boxing Day one dayer means the Basin will have to wait until the New Year before hosting Sri Lanka and Australia in test matches.
Until 1999 the Basin was home to both forms of the game but the new Westpac Stadium in the Central City is now the preferred location for one-day cricket.
Just 15 minutes walk from the City Centre, the Basin is surrounded by native Pohutukawa trees and looks straight out to Government House across the road.
With streets running the whole way round the ground, it has been dubbed the biggest roundabout in the world.
