Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An buga wasan farko na Duniya a wannan wurin a ranar 7 ga Satumba 1973 tsakanin Ingila da West Indies. Ya karbi bakuncin wasannin gasar zakarun Turai ta 1975
, 1979, 1983, da kuma 1999 gasar cin kofin duniya. Hakanan ya karbi bakuncin wasanni biyar daga cikin wasanni goma sha biyar a gasar cin kofin zakarun ICC na 2004, gami da wasan karshe. Gidan Oval ya taba rike rikodin mafi girman filin wasa na kowane filin wasa a duniya. Wannan rikodin ya wuce Gaddafi Stadium a Pakistan, kodayake The Oval ya kasance mafi girma a Burtaniya.