Research Outcome By James Mifsud
I have focused my Research on: How has the Redevelopment of the Adelaide Oval affected its use as a world class cricket ground? I chose this topic because my passion is sport, especially cricket, but also AFL (Australian Football League), and the subjects I enjoy the most are Maths and Accounting which will help me find out whether the benefits received from the Redevelopment outway the costs incurred.
I feel very lucky to have been given this opportunity to research a topic that I am so passionate about. The Adelaide Oval redevelopment is one of the most significant events to happen here in Adelaide and I have had the
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During the Kerry Packer World Series Cricket era in the late 1970’s, David Hookes was the third best Australian batsman behind Greg and Ian Chappell. He made 770 runs at an average of 38.5 which was achieved in 12 Supertests during the 1977-78 and 1978-79 seasons.
On the 7-8 of March 1987 Hookes and Wayne Phillips made an undefeated fourth wicket partnership of 462 for South Australia against Tasmania, with Hookes making his personal best score of 306 runs not out at Adelaide Oval (with Phillips making 213 not out).
Some of the many other key historical events that have happened during the Oval’s early history include:-
The first Test Match held there between England and Australia. This match was played in 1884 after Lord’s (in England) had hosted its first ever Test Match. The result of this game was England beating Australia by 8 wickets.
The Old Scoreboard on the northern side of the ground was designed by Kenneth Milne in 1911 and this was the same year it was first used.
Clem Hill’s history at the Adelaide Oval was important because of all the things he achieved at this ground. For
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Tasmania needed just four runs in the final over with a few wickets in hand, but the game ended in a draw and the trophy went to the host side (SA) because they finished in top position on the ladder.
In 2013 six more greats of South Australian Cricket and Football were honoured in bronze at Adelaide Oval. The cricket greats are George Giffen and Clem Hill, who joined the existing bronze statues of Jason Gillespie and Darren Lehmann. Whilst for footy Malcolm Blight, Russell Ebert, Ken Farmer and Barrie Robran were honoured with their own bronze statues.
Australia has many cricket grounds used for cricket such as the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), Adelaide Oval, The Gabba (Brisbane) and the WACA (Perth). I learnt through my Research that the MCG was first used on the 15th of March 1877, the SCG was first used on the 17th of February 1882, the Adelaide Oval was first used on the 12th of December 1884, the WACA in Perth was first used on the 11th of December 1970 and the Gabba in Brisbane was first used on the 27th of November
It all started on April 6, 1992, the inaugural game at Baltimore’s new stadium: Camden Yards. That day 47,930 people packed out the new stadium to witness what Frank Deford of Sports Illustrated, called “ The single most influential athletic creation since artificial ice”(#2).
The newly appointed Director of Marketing for Irwin Sports, Mr. Greg Anger has been assigned to create the 1996 1997 communications strategy for the company's two newest products, Ice and Inline Cover Ups for goalies. It is June 6th 1996, and the annual budget meeting is scheduled for June 27th 1996. (Three weeks away)
outfield and the storied 27 by 75 foot high manual scoreboard was built behind the
Impact: Alexander Cartwright’s changes made the game faster-paced and more challenging while setting it apart from games like cricket and rounders. In 1846, the Knickerbockers (Cartwright’s team) played the first official game of baseball against a team of cricket players, beginning a new, uniquely American tradition. In a matter of years, baseball became a professional
Colclough, W. G., Daellenbach, L. A., & Sherony, K. R. (1994). Estimating the economic impact of a minor league baseball stadium. Managerial and Decision Economics, 15(5), 497-502.
history of the game. Of course baseball fans and players will remember the 1998 historic season when
it about 2000 BC. People who perfected the game of polo must have known "hockey on the ground" before "hockey on
The fields had no boundaries, and goals were usually between 500 yards to a half-mile apart, though sometimes they were several miles apart (Source A). The goals were usually marked by a single tree or a large rock, and points were scored by hitting it with the ball.
The first Ashes series in Australia was in 1920-21. This series was dominated by Australia winning all five tests. This was the first English team to tour Australia since the war, but it was delayed by an outbreak of typhus on the passenger ship carrying the English team. Australia placed seven test debutants under the captaincy of Warwick Armstrong, and yet they seemed too experienced and too good for England. The team was; W. Armstrong, W. Bardsley, H. Collins, J Gregory, C. Kelleway, A. Mailey, G. McDonald, W. Oldfield, C. Pellew, J. Ryder and J. Taylor. The first test in Sydney never from the outlook looked like a two teamed race, rather a spectacle to see how much Australia could win by. Armstrong won his first of many tosses and decided to bat first, Australia making 267 on a pitch favoring the bowlers. England, on the second day crumbled being spun out for a feeble 190 and in reply Australia made 581, with centuries to Collins the opener and Armstrong the captain. This meant England needed 658 on the last two days. Australia’s superior bowling attack dismissed England for 281, 377 short.
There is a nationwide trend in which taxpayers are asked to pay for new stadiums these stadiums benefit a single corporation. A sport construction boom has started, these new stadiums cost a minimum of $200 million to build, but usually cost much more. New stadiums have been built, or are underway, in New York, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Seattle, Tampa, Washington DC, St. Louis, Jacksonville, and Oakland. This competitive trend replaces old stadiums with high tech flashy stadiums used exclusively for one sport. These stadiums are unnecessary, and not cost efficient. Most of the time new stadiums are not used for multi-purposes, they bring in money exclusively for the professional league and not ...
...nstructions however, a printer's error had changed sixty feet to sixty feet six inches. When this error was discovered, it was to late to do anything. Hundreds of fields around the country had already been altered, and it remains the official distance separating the pitcher from the batter. Also in 1898 the first base stealing statistics and rules that define a balk appear. By 1900 the first pentagon shaped home plate appears on a baseball diamond. The history of baseball is so interesting to see how people actually came up with this wonderful idea to play a game called baseball. If you compare the modern game now, to game in the 1800's, the game looks pretty much the same just some minor changes of how the game is played. Well to conclude my essay baseball still remains as "Americas favorite past time sport."
In our AP Human Geography classes this year, we discussed the idea of gendered space, so I decided to apply it to The Griswold Stadium in Portland, Oregon. I had several questions about why the stadium and bleachers were laid out the way they are. Some if the were, Are there specific sections in the bleachers that are gendered male, and which are gendered female? Is there a reason why they are gendered that way? Are there certain social factors that make them gendered the way they are?
Desbordes, Michel. "Measuring Fair Play And Planning Long Term." International Journal Of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship 15.2 (2014): 77. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 17 Feb. 2014.
Film Response 3 The film “Trobiand Cricket” discussed in-depth how the people of the Trobiand islands reinvented the game of cricket to make it their own. They were introduced to the game because of british colonialism, as the game originated in England in the 1800s. Christian ministries introduced cricket to the people of Papua New Guinea.
Don Bradman was born in 1908 in a backwater village, near to the city of Sydney in Australia. He found that his school didn't apportion him much importance to sport, much to his disappointment. Coupled with lack of school friends living near by, he was forced to find ways to amuse himself. He invented a game where he slung a golf ball against a water tank, and, grabbing a cricket stump with both hands, tried to zip the ball back as it came back at some speed and odd angle towards him. He admitted later in life that, in his own modest reserved way, than more often than not he was successful in hitting his target. Also he revealed that many a cricket fantasy was lived playing the same game.