[COM] Adelaide Oval Redevelopment

[Port Adelaide Fan]

[dsriggs]

Tom Richardson seems to have some sort of problem with this development

[Brucetiki]

Adelaide Oval confirmed as a venue for the Australia-India test series in 2014/15

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/201 ... est-venues

I await Tom Richardson's negative spin on this

[Matt]

Tom Richardson seems to have some sort of problem with this development

On the subject of Tom Richardson's "coverage", not sure if this has been posted before:

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transc ... 551590.htm

[Vee]

Adelaide Oval confirmed as a venue for the Australia-India test series in 2014/15

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/201 ... est-venues

I await Tom Richardson's negative spin on this

Tom does seem to be giving it a pounding! True to form.

Adelaide Oval confirmed as a venue ... great news for Adelaide Oval and SA fans.
http://www.saca.com.au/Article/NewsDeta ... 38&id=1957
So Perth missed out!

Makes up (somewhat) for the Ryobi Cup travesty.
Check this blog post.
http://shumpty77.com/2013/09/08/cricket ... -travesty/

[Phantom]

Maybe this is more of a Beer Garden convo, but I was gonna post about Adelaide getting the go ahead (but I've beaten to it! Kudos!)

This had to be done. It's the least we can expect from Cricket Australia, after spending $550,000,000!

Perth is the major casualty of Australia's truncated 2014-15 Test summer, stripped of its annual match for the first time since the WACA ground made its debut as a five-day venue in 1970. Only four Tests are scheduled for a season in which India will visit, due mainly to the fixturing squeeze created by the 2015 World Cup, and the nation's two smallest and youngest major grounds in Perth and Hobart have been left off the Test calendar.

The decision has provoked an outraged response from the Western Australia Cricket Association, while the host broadcaster Channel Nine is also likely to be nonplussed about losing the one Test match of the summer it can screen in prime time to the populous eastern states, due to Perth's more westerly time zone. However it was always likely that Perth would miss out on the match due to concerns about the ground's facilities and size relative to its main rivals Brisbane and Adelaide.

While Bellerive Oval has never been a nailed-on venue, the WACA ground has invariably provided blood and thunder Test cricket, due to its uniquely fast and bouncy pitch. India were rounded up by an innings and 37 runs well inside three days in Perth in January 2012. Other considerations outlined by the CA chief executive James Sutherland included the strong claims of other grounds. Adelaide Oval's $535 million redevelopment will be complete in time for the series, while the Gabba has traditionally been host to the first Test of the summer and has consistently drawn larger crowds to its matches than Perth.

The WACA's size, a history of spotty attendances and facilities lagging behind other grounds have detracted from its standing among international venues, despite its lively pitch and a time zone more favourable to television audiences both in India and on the east coast of Australia. CA's verdict also maintains a longstanding tradition of "last in, first out" among venues - Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane all boasting of longer Test traditions than Perth.

"Though a traditional Test match venue with a proud history, the WACA ground has the smallest capacity of the five mainland Test venues and has historically attracted lower attendances," Sutherland said. "The WACA has been working hard to improve the facilities for its fans but it still requires significant improvements.

"Although the WACA has missed out on a Test match, they will play host to up to four limited over matches in the 2014-15 season that will see South Africa tour in a limited-over series in November, as well as India and England competing in a tri-series in January prior to the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup."

Christina Matthews, the WACA chief executive, expressed her deep disappointment at the WACA's reduced allocation for 2014-15. "Whilst CA will provide additional limited-overs matches to replace the Test match, there is no compensation for losing a Test," she said. "The on-going effect this loss will have on the WACA and cricket in Western Australia will be devastating. We will continue talks with CA and will be seeking an understanding from them of all the elements behind the decision."

Apart from Adelaide and Brisbane, the other party most likely to be pleased by the decision are India's cricketers. Save for a victory on an uncharacteristic WACA ground surface in 2008, India have struggled in Perth, and the green-tinged 2012 pitch is known to have been chief among the motivators for the retaliatory dustbowls prepared for Australia's visit to India earlier this year.

"One goes back to the Perth Test where the wicket was green and we played to our strengths and won the Test in two and a half days," Australia's former coach Mickey Arthur said last month. "They clearly wanted retribution for that and produced some of the toughest conditions I'd ever seen. They went out of their way to prepare those conditions and I can't argue with that."

Karma for the 1962 Commonwealth Games, perhaps? (Rhetorical question. I don't know or care to know that I'm ill-informed, just makes me feel slightly better about it)

[spiller]

yep, makes me feel pretty good as an Adelaidian too. I have a good friend of mine in Perth and he says residents there are constantly complaining about Perth being "behind the times".

[Port Adelaide Fan]

1.05min in to the video looks like they are putting the new video screen up.

[Brucetiki]

And surprise, surprise, Tom Richardson was nowhere to be seen in that article

He musn't have been able to put a negative spin on that news...

[mattblack]

I was there yesterday. The stucture for the new video screen is complete and they were putting up the panels, it will be very big! Looks like seating is also going to go in on the second tier of the eastern stand with the frames sitting there waiting of installation. The coaches boxes were also being fitted out internally and the ground was also having it's base layer put on before it is lazer leveled and turf put on. The roof span for the south southern stand is 3/4 done with work now going on from east to west so it can join in the middle with the cladding/tarps being installed over the western portion. The second roof span of the western stand is also complete. All of the spans on the western stand will have to be complete before the turf goes in because of the crane access needed. Will be a tight timeframe for sure, especially given the weather.

[Pants]

The turf laying was supposed to start at the end of last month, so i guess it'll have to go on this month at the latest. No way they'll have the Eastern Stand roof frames finished by then. They'll have to find another way of doing it. It's going to be crazy tight to meet the November and March deadlines!

[TooFar]

Here is an iPhone pic taken Wednesday.

[jk1237]

The turf laying was supposed to start at the end of last month, so i guess it'll have to go on this month at the latest. No way they'll have the Eastern Stand roof frames finished by then. They'll have to find another way of doing it. It's going to be crazy tight to meet the November and March deadlines!

I bet the southern stand roof structure frames will be completed within the next week so the cranes on the oval in that section can disappear. One would think the roofing material can be craned up from the back of the stand, even though they have done a fair bit already.

The Eastern stand roof structures will take while longer so interesting if they will continue to do it via the oval or not

[hitthepost]

I know they said it would be, but the video screen will be MASSIVE!

[EBG]

The copper cladding at rear of southern stand. In time this will probably turn a dull dark greenish so see it now.