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Brisbane public need to support cricket for the Gabba to host major matches
Adelaide Oval to host World Cup blockbusterSource: Supplied
THE snubbing of Brisbane as a World Cup cricket venue is a clear warning to Queensland fans and officials they must fight hard for their future.
A $535 million, 53,000-capacity Adelaide Oval is the shiny new toy of Australian cricket.
It has beaten Brisbane for the right to host a World Cup quarter-final in 2015 and will also attempt to host a Test against India at Brisbane's expense in the same season.
Melbourne's iconic Boxing Day Test and Sydney's New Year five-dayer are untouchable on the cricket calendar and Channel Nine's love of the Perth Test grows each year because of the ratings gold it provides when beamed prime time to the east coast.
That leaves Brisbane and Adelaide to square off and just at the moment Adelaide are hard to beat for they are the house with a fresh coat of paint.
For more than a century Adelaide had more influence at Cricket Australia board level because it had three board members to Brisbane's two in a system which was recently remodelled to make it more equitable.
That Adelaide Tests are traditionally better attended than Brisbane's does not help Brisbane's cause.
If Brisbane people want big cricket matches they must make sure they passionately support the ones that come their way.
Brisbane public need to support cricket for the Gabba to host major matches
- Robert Craddock
- The Courier-Mail
- July 30, 201311:49AM
Adelaide Oval to host World Cup blockbusterSource: Supplied
THE snubbing of Brisbane as a World Cup cricket venue is a clear warning to Queensland fans and officials they must fight hard for their future.
A $535 million, 53,000-capacity Adelaide Oval is the shiny new toy of Australian cricket.
It has beaten Brisbane for the right to host a World Cup quarter-final in 2015 and will also attempt to host a Test against India at Brisbane's expense in the same season.
Melbourne's iconic Boxing Day Test and Sydney's New Year five-dayer are untouchable on the cricket calendar and Channel Nine's love of the Perth Test grows each year because of the ratings gold it provides when beamed prime time to the east coast.
That leaves Brisbane and Adelaide to square off and just at the moment Adelaide are hard to beat for they are the house with a fresh coat of paint.
For more than a century Adelaide had more influence at Cricket Australia board level because it had three board members to Brisbane's two in a system which was recently remodelled to make it more equitable.
That Adelaide Tests are traditionally better attended than Brisbane's does not help Brisbane's cause.
If Brisbane people want big cricket matches they must make sure they passionately support the ones that come their way.