Love how the lights are on the roof
Is Australia the only country in the world with light towers?
I can't think of any stadiums outside of Australia with them.
We're finally moving into the 21st century
English cricket grounds. Westpac Stadium in Wellington, and Eden Park to a degree. Eden Gardens in India - most floodlit cricket venues really. The cricket stadium in Dubai is probably one of the few with a ring of lights in the roof and no towers.
With the English grounds it'd be for the same reasons we have them here - they were built at existing venues with multiple different stands of different heights and ages, or at venues that don't have 360-degree stands to put the lights in the roof.
When lights were installed at the MCG and the 'Gabba they didn't have a complete circle of near-same roofline to install them in.
At AO the roofline was way too low pre-redevelopment. At the SCG there's too many spots which are too low or have heritage-listed buildings.
The current AO, and Metricon, Spotless, there's a massive gap where you wouldn't be able to put lights (and at Spotless they'd be quite low).
One could argue that we moved into the 21st century with this when they build Allianz Stadium and ANZ Stadium as they don't have light towers. AAMI Park has them but they're still built into the stadium.
Etihad also doesn't have light towers (funnily enough!!)
