Brisbane Public Need To Support Cricket For The Gabba To Host Major Matches

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Brisbane public need to support cricket for the Gabba to host major matches


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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.
 
The Gabba Tests are not well attended because it's the very first game of the international summer and people are still switching from rugby/AFL mode to cricket mode. There's no way in the world that Brisbane will lose their Test match, and I'd be surprised if they get even a minor reduction of games.
 
Australia generally plays well at the Gabba. It's a swinging, seaming wicket where Australia have an advantage over the other sides, I'd be somewhat surprised if they lose that test considering Adelaide is generally a lifeless road but having said that it appears it's a much closer contest now for that fourth game.
 
Having the 1st Test when most people are still at work wouldn't help but they sort of have it then for the best chance to avoid rain interruptions.

Gee looking at the World Cup fixture it looks like they copped dud group games like Perth, although I should have seen the latter happening with the WACA being a small and very outdated venue.
 
The Gabba is one of 3 grounds that will be trialled with day/night shield matches during the upcoming Shield season. The other 2 venues being the MCG and Adelaide oval. The purpose of the trials is with a view to a day/night test in a couple of years time.
 
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