They could have a 120k stadium with a roof but there’s no way in hell they’d move it away from their beloved rickety old members and ladies stands.
Worst ground for Test Cricket in Australia?
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Grand Uncle Horace
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Alan Jones, long time member of the Board of Trustees of the SCG would completely flip out icing on the cake of the move.
Surely you could just not have the Sydney test in the first week of January?
Weather seems to pop up every year or two and ruin everything
Weather seems to pop up every year or two and ruin everything
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I think the Boxing Day test should be relocated to Manuka and MCG just used for AFL.
Grand Uncle Horace
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Unhappily Sydney’s weather pattern seems more extreme than it was historicall, even accepting the La Niña cycle we are in at the moment. Even with a better weather pattern the SCG is a too small boutique stadium.
The ground is poor for cricket and footy. A world class larger stadium with a retractable roof serving both codes is the only long term solution. Every year the Sydney racing industry loses a motsa from cancelled rained meetings. A massive redevelopement of Randwick ensuring the new stadium in the middle and a retractable cover for the track would cater for the future.
The AFL, CA, Racing NSW and the State and Fed govts could contribute as well as the TAB and gambling industry. Costs could be offset in part by boutique housing at the SCG within historical footprint.
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Imo the old stands are holding the SCG back. While I speak openly with bias because clearly Adelaide Oval is the finest stadium in the world but it could also provide a blueprint to what the SCG might be able to do in the future in that it is possible to retain some of the historical features of the member's and ladies stands in a new renovation of the ground.
Grand Uncle Horace
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the ground area itself cannot be extended further. It is too small. The stands (rightfully) will have a National Trust
classification and should be preserved. Redevelopment with a retractable roof would be nigh on impossible Sydney desperately needs a larger 70-80k world class stadium that caters for the future.
The worst ground for Test Cricket in Australia for mine is Optus stadium. Great for footy and one off events, terrible for test cricket.
The Sydney test is s**t because of the weather in Sydney at this particular time of year, not the ground itself. A reasonably full SCG has a great atmosphere and looks good on TV. Yesterday’s crowd of 32k looked and sounded great at the SCG, but would look pretty ordinary at a stadium twice as big.
The Sydney test is s**t because of the weather in Sydney at this particular time of year, not the ground itself. A reasonably full SCG has a great atmosphere and looks good on TV. Yesterday’s crowd of 32k looked and sounded great at the SCG, but would look pretty ordinary at a stadium twice as big.
Rabish Binney
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Adelaide; 81 tests, 19 drawn
20 of the last 23 tests played there (since 2000) have provided a result.
Rabish Binney
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Only 3 draws at Adelaide since the year 2000 (out of 23 played) .
6 draws in a row between 1985 and 1991 - as you point out, the Burdett tradition.
I wonder if TV networks are having any influence on pitch preparation these days? After all, they're paying the rights to something they want to go for 5 days....
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Aside from this year's test - Perth's wickets have been elite.
Reckon they are close to the best in the world - good for batters and bowlers alike
Reckon they are close to the best in the world - good for batters and bowlers alike
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Shade for about 20% of the attendees - twas appalling.
WACA either needed $200m spent on grandstands - or withdraw it from meaninful service.
The latter was the correct decision.
The main issue was the pitch - which they have done an extraordinary job of replicating and i'd say improve upon
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Sydney easily. Dead rubbers with touring teams who have given up, s**t weather and commentators from NSW letting us know every 5 minutes how amazing the SCG is.
I don’t think any venue stands out as a number 1 when you take everything into account.
I don’t think any venue stands out as a number 1 when you take everything into account.
Rabish Binney
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What is happening with the WACA ground?
I like the SCG for test Cricket. I am biased towards Adelaide Oval but I do like the Gabba.
To me the MCG is my least preferred Cricket ground and test match to go to. It's the biggest ground and great for football but I don’t like it for Cricket.
To me the MCG is my least preferred Cricket ground and test match to go to. It's the biggest ground and great for football but I don’t like it for Cricket.
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WACA - 44 tests 8 draws
Perth Stadium - 3 tests 0 draws
Perth Stadium - 3 tests 0 draws
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Agreed, the WACA was horribly uncomfortable for spectators - virtually no shade and no matter when the Test was played it always seemed to coincide with a heatwave. Limited food, drink and toilets too
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SCG very likely heading for 6 draws in the last 9 matches and yet this is still up for (thankfully increasingly less) debate somehow. NSW media mafia is pulling off one of the greatest PR distraction campaigns in human history.
11 draws in 35 matches since 1990. So if this match is a draw we are looking at 1/3rd of all SCG matches in the last 33 years being draws.
Meanwhile the MCG has had two draws in the last 25 matches and still gets called a road.
4 draws in 34 matches since 1990. Only 1/12.
It's incredible how once a lie takes hold, it just refuses to loosen its grip no matter what evidence is thrown at it. You've almost got to tip your hat that they've somehow convinced so much of the idiotic public that the MCG is the problem.
11 draws in 35 matches since 1990. So if this match is a draw we are looking at 1/3rd of all SCG matches in the last 33 years being draws.
Meanwhile the MCG has had two draws in the last 25 matches and still gets called a road.
4 draws in 34 matches since 1990. Only 1/12.
It's incredible how once a lie takes hold, it just refuses to loosen its grip no matter what evidence is thrown at it. You've almost got to tip your hat that they've somehow convinced so much of the idiotic public that the MCG is the problem.
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Could also mount a case for the better climate in the west. Centennial Park gets 1248mm/year, while Olympic Park only gets 912.
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I'm not sure spinners would agree (see Jason Krejza for case in point).
Currently being redeveloped to become a 10k capacity boutique facility for the community and the WACA state level cricket sides, similar to Junction Oval:
Designs for WACA's $64m facelift revealed
I think they're planning on playing some WAFL games there too with the removal of the grass hills to make it oval again.
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Though to be fair, they've been planning (and abandoning plans) for over a decade now.
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