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by Keepashes » Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:03 pm
by Keepashes » Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:45 pm
Keepashes: South Aust v Queensland at Alice Springs - Nov 14, 2009 ; Northern Territory Cricket Association Invitation XI v West Indians at Alice Springs - Nov 14, 2000
by Borges » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:17 pm
Alice Springs brings to mind Newlands - The most spectacular, and arguably the most beautiful cricket ground in the world.
by from_the_stands » Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:48 pm
Lord's and the Oval are both pretty special. 
I'm looking forward to seeing a bit of cricket down at the Roseball next summer! 
by gollygosh » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:35 am
Such a pretty Oval with the Derwent in the background as well as the hills. Shame its so cold and windy there
by Keepashes » Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:10 pm
FTS: I've really missed going to the MCG since I've lived here in sunny England.
Keepashes: I' m not sure if this is the right one, but it's definitely a cricket ground in Hampshire anyway, with that telltale row of striped pitches in the middle. I can't resist quoting the slightly over-the-top claims for its current redevelopment, from their website: "Rose Bowl plc has today announced that work will begin on the first element of its £48million redevelopment project which will transform the venue into one of the best Test Match grounds in world cricket. The first element of the project involves the construction of 2 major new stands, either side of the existing Pavilion with work set to begin immediately. The stands which are due for completion in time for the start of the 2010 cricket season next April, will provide covered seating for a further 4,800 spectators. These additional seats will take the Rose Bowl’s permanent capacity to 15,000 and with the addition of semi-permanent seating for Major Matches its maximum capacity to 25,000 – the largest public ticket offering amongst the UK grounds." Upcoming Internationals: 1st ODI: England v Australia at Southampton Jun 22 2010 (14:30 local, 13:30 GMT), 5th ODI: England v Pakistan at Southampton Sep 22 2010 (14:30 local, 13:30 GMT)
by Keepashes » Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:58 pm
Commercial CC, Fitzroy Lions AFLFC, Edinburgh CC) Heritage Council of Victoria: The Fitzroy Cricket Ground Grandstand was constructed in 1888 ... It is of typical nineteenth century form with central divided entry stair emphasised by a small pediment and restrained use of cast iron for balustrading. ... Grandstands were a spectacular feature of nineteenth century recreation but generally were demolished or severely altered. The Fitzroy Cricket Ground Grandstand therefore stands as one of the most important of a now small group of survivors. [It] is of historical significance as possibly the oldest and most intact nineteenth century grandstand in the metropolitan area and for its enduring association over many years with inner metropolitan football and cricket, one of the few associated structures to have survived relatively intact. The Cricket Ground was the home of the now-defunct Fitzroy Football Club until 1966 and stands as an important reminder of the contribution made by Fitzroy to the history of Australian football in Victoria. http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/447
Keepashes: I simply can't bring myself to do Lords or the Oval until 2009 is over, and you can't expect anyone from Sydney to do justice to the {insert extravagant praise here, GG} MCG. On the other hand, the MCG kindly hosted the South Melbourne /Sydney Swans in their Grand Final appearances of 2005 (W) and 2006 (L) and so I searched Cricinfo for other grounds in Melbourne. I felt sorry for this little one, which has only hosted one first-class match in its life, 84 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cr ... _Australia . This was Victoria v Western Australia, 1925/26, Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Melbourne, 6,7,9 November 1925 (3-day match). Result: Victoria won by an innings and 282 runs. (WH Ponsford c Quinlan b Drew 158, HSB Love c Hewson b Buttsworth 103: http://static.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1 ... V1925.html .
I decided to make it famous to CMS folk.
For followers of the Fitzroy / Brisbane Lions, it is already famous, as Brunswick Oval (named after the Street, not the suburb of Brunswick). But it began life as the home ground of the Collingwood
by Keepashes » Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:55 pm
From the "Walhalla Chronicle", February 1996 Newsletter of the Walhalla Heritage and Development League Inc ... The goldminers who worked in the famous Long Tunnel Mine at Walhalla built the ground in the early 1880's. With picks and shovels they worked for years to shave the top off the mountain, to carve a football and cricket ground 140 yards long by about 90 yards wide. In all, they sliced about 30 feet off the top of the mountain. By 1885 the ground was level and they poured a concrete cricket pitch in the centre, and played their first game. No grass ever grew on the Walhalla ground. The outfield was rough gravel, and the boundary line was formed by a row of gum trees.
You could almost peer over the edge of the ground and look down on the Walhalla township below. The situation of the oval prompted former Australian Test cricket captain Warwick Armstrong ( http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/3982.html ) to make a bet with the Secretary of the Cricket Club, Harry Rawson, that he could belt a cricket ball onto the roof of the Star Hotel in the township 700 feet "over the side". Harry took up the bet, and was well prepared for the match, which was between the visiting Melbourne - East Melbourne club and the Walhalla Cricket Club during Easter 1907. He carried 13 spare cricket balls up to the oval that day just in case Warwick lost a few in trying to win his bet. Home ground advantage was on the locals' side that day. They planted a fieldsman, *modded* Merrington, behind a gum tree 25 feet outside the oval and he caught Armstrong in the trees. The umpire was a local goldminer and he, naturally, gave Warwick out. Armstrong didn't achieve his ambition to land a cricket ball on the roof of the Star Hotel, but he did spend a few pleasant hours inside the pub after the match with his hosts, the goldminers.
Keepashes: Be sure to look at the map: it's prettty amazing. This is the best I've been able to do for the "gum tree in the outfield" mini-series so far, and technically, since the batsman was given out, the gum tree must have counted as being in the field of play, OK?
by Keepashes » Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:59 am
From the Fitzroy-Doncaster CC "Fitzroy Doncaster 7/202 def Camberwell Magpies 126 ... The Magpies home game was shifted to the picturesque country setting of the Hume and Hovell cricket ground at Strath Creek. After a kick start at the Golden Arches in Mill Park for breakfast, a nucleus of players, managers and scorers formed a convoy to venture into the hills to play cricket. Peter Cashen won the toss and elected to bat on an overcast and windy day amongst the rolling hills and gum trees and the rose garden arrayed in front of the wonderful pavilion. ... Everyone retired to the pavillion for tea, sandwiches, warm scones with jam and cream and fresh fruit provided by the proprietors of the establishment. The assembled company were able to sit and gaze either out the windows to take in the panoramic views or inspect the many pictures, trophies, caps, memorabilia and materials adorning the walls." http://fitzdonc.cricketvictoria.com.au/ ... 3rdxi.html
ABC Local radio; The World Today, 27 February , 2009. Cricket oval's lucky escapes from bushfires "ALISON CALDWELL: What inspired you? DON MCQUEEN: Well the love of the game. I have been a cricket devotee all of my life. I've played a lot of cricket in England over the years and I fell in love with the English country cricket grounds because they're the same as they were 400 years ago, you know, when the game evolved into what it is today. But the country grounds are the same. ALISON CALDWELL: Is it true that this is actually a replica of Lord's? DON MCQUEEN: Well it's based on Lord's. We have got a slope the same as Lord's. It's the same dimensions as Lord's and we don't have the grand-stands, that's all. When it's in full song, it looks absolutely beautiful, especially in the later afternoon when you can see the light and shade contrasts on all the ridge lines in the gullies there when the western sun starts to drop. It truly is beautiful. ... ALISON CALDWELL: Three Saturday's ago the cricket ground was surrounded by fire on all sides. With the help of the CFA, Don McQueen and his wife Anne did as much as they could to protect the ground until huge white and brown clouds full of smoke came over the hills towards them. That's when they decided to leave. DON MCQUEEN: It's actually encroached onto the ground in various places where it went under the picket fence, onto the ground and it luckily, luckily, it didn't ignite the picket fence. And the fire stopped only about three metres or before it was put out, just in front of the pavilion there. It actually ignited the bunk house but that got extinguished and the same with our house, that went within five metres and we lost a machinery shed so we had a pretty close go of it. Got a scare, sure. Big scare, but we're a goer and unfortunately for some, they did lose their lives and they did lose their assets. So as I say, we count ourselves amongst the luckier ones. A CFA truck came, did great work for us. Without the CFA truck I don't think we would be having this interview in this room right now. http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/conten ... 503145.htm
Keepashes: This is where Ricky and the boys - especially Mitch!! - will be training for 2013, I imagine. It was bloody hard to locate on the map, so I hope yous appreciate it. There's lots more nice piccies of the ground on their website "gallery". For Hume & Hovell, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hume_and_Hovell_expedition . For CFA=Country Fire Authority, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Fire_Authority . For Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria 2009, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires
by gollygosh » Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:03 am
by Keepashes » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:08 am
Keepashes: This comes from a marvellous collection of 250-odd photos on flickr that records the work on the first stage of the project described at http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/cee/ewb/pdf/onepgsum0308.pdf and below. They are well composed as well as interesting in themselves. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cools/sets ... 807969343/. Many appear in the slideshow on the project ( http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/cee/ewb/pdf/ ... onpres.pdf ) but not the camel one.
Navjyoti India Foundation: "To provide pure drinking water to the community, solar water pumps have been installed in Abheypur with the help of Hartford University. The project is a joint initiative of Navjyoti India Foundation and Engineers, Executives and a group of students from Hartford University who call themselves as Engineers Without Borders, which is a model project in itself. Due to scarcity of water in the girl's school, drop out rate amongst girls was very high. Installation of solar water pumps has not only provided a solution to the acute water problem but ensures regularity of more than 180 girl students. Apart from this, two water tanks of 2000 litres each have been installed at potter's village to provide safe drinking water to around 100 families."
Dr Kiran Bedi: "University of Hartford Friends: All these collective steps towards a greener environment in our own small but knowledgeable ways, and making the world a better place by inches, yards, and a few miles. Imagine if more and more people thought this way, the world would be a much better place to live in for now and our successors. So without waiting for what others can do….we just do…. and revel in the joy of sharing. With best wishes, Kiran." For Dr Kiran Bedi see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Bedi and http://www.kiranbedi.com/
Hartford, CT Chapter of Engineers Without Borders, USA: January, 2008 – The University of Hartford Student EWB chapter installed a water supply system at the Girls’ Primary School. For more information, visit the University of Hartford’s website: http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/cee/ewb .... August, 2008 – A team comprised of HPC and University of Hartford EWB members designed and installed a water system in Abheypur. This water system built upon a solar powered water supply system installed by the University of Hartford team in January, 2008. The new system piped water from the Girls’ Primary School 1000 feet to storage tanks in the “Potter’s Village” area. A health and social assessment was also begun which will provide insight into how EWB can best help Abheypur in the future. Project Implementation Review Presentation ( 8.7 MB) http://www.ewb-hpc.org/pdf/Abheypur+Imp ... 9-2008.pdf .....October, 2009 – HPC team will return to Abheypur to work with local residents to install a well and water storage tanks. This water system will supply potable water to a portion of Abheypur village that is very much in need of a safe and reliable source of drinking water. For more information about this project, contact the project lead at secretary@ewb-hpc.org.
by Keepashes » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:06 am
Keepashes: (From wikipedia) "The university has the only International standard cricket ground. The Cricket Association of Nepal pays the university a certain amount for conducting matches." Other grounds are: Kirtipur Tundikhel Ground, Kathmandu, Engineering Institute Ground, Lalitpur and Birendra Sainik Awasiya Mahavidyalaya, Bhaktapur. For another photo and details of other grounds in the ACC, see http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/the-icc/ic ... lities.php where it is said of this ground: "Currently Nepal's only international sized ground, Tribhuvan University (TU) has hosted 14 ACC tournaments and a number of ICC Intercontinental matches against Malaysia, Hong Kong and UAE in 2004 and 2005. After a year of construction work, TU was completed in 1998. The soil used for the ground and the pitch was local soil which was NZSTI approved. TU has great opportunities for future development and the ground serves as a suitable neutral venue for international games."
by Keepashes » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:27 am
Gulf News: Al Dhaid to be a first-class venue for cricket. Bukhatir speaks on changing trend of the game around the world as 'cricket village' prepares to host its first international on November 22 (November 15, 2009). Al Dhaid will start off by staging the China-Afghanistan match in the morning and Kuwait-Qatar tie in the afternoon. ... Bukhatir is unsure what the future holds for the game. "It will take a long time for things to settle down and to know exactly what the future holds for the game. "The commercial performance during the recent Champions League is a good indicator of the fact that too many things have been taken for granted and therefore adjustments are badly needed. "We are here to contribute to the game at any time but cricket needs to settle down economically and business-wise. "Right now there is too much extravagance," he said. http://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/al-dh ... t-1.527537
Keepashes: I was hoping that this one might be a candidate for the "date palm in the outfield" series, but no luck with piccies so far. For Bukhatir see: http://www.bukhatir.com/aboutcm.php
by yorksfan » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:58 am
by Keepashes » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:05 pm
Keepashes: Just a little mystery to puzzle over. The wikimapia link I have given is for Motera Stadium, which is certainly on the "ouskirts of Ahmedabad" and on a "bend in the river" and thus meets the cricinfo description. Also it has a stadium with a zigzag roof, which matches one of the photos in the wikipedia article. However, there is also a Sardar Patel Stadium, along the same bank of the river but further south, which meets another part of the Cricinfo description: "Gujarat Cricket Association, Sardar Patel Stadium, Near Sports Club of Gujarat Ltd, Navarangpura, Ahmedabad". It is here: http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=23.042220 ... =0&m=b&v=8 Now that I read carefully, I take it that this is the address of the Gujarat Cricket Association, and the stadium is an old one, pre-dating Motera.
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