After being named most liveable city for the third time in a row (Staff, 2014) Melbourne is definitely having a moment. However can the most liveable city also be the most sports mad? The Ultimate Sports City has been won by Melbourne “on three occasions – 2006, 2008 and 2010” (Heenan & Dustan, 2014) and once again Melbourne is on the shortlist of 5 for the bi-annual award given by Sport Business (SportBusiness Group, 2014). The purpose of this essay is to justify this award and Melbourne’s position
Cricket is a game now played all over the world. Back in the 1920s there were two main teams, Australia and England. The Ashes are a series of cricket test matches between Australia and England. The first Ashes test ever played was on March 15th 1877 in Australia. Since then Ashes tests between Australia and England have flourished numbering a series approximately every three years. The overall Ashes results are in favor of Australia, while since 1989 the Ashes series have all been won by Australia
With the first ever recorded match of Australian Rules football in 1858 between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School, Thomas Wills in 1858 upon his return from England proposed that a similar game to English Rugby League could be used to keep cricket players fit through the winter season. The rules of Australian Football League (AFL) are still ambiguous from when Thomas Wills who set up the foundation rules for which are still being used today, [1]. However, the rules were not followed very
Sports Program database and organized information from Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. There were only two sports used for this study, the Australian Football League, and the Cricket club was invited because of their contribution to the program. Within the AFL, there is a total of Forty-Seven clubs. Among the Cricket club, there are a total of eighteen clubs. There were thirty surveys given to each sport with random instructions on how to return the surveys. Because the Good Sports Program originated
Melbourne, one of the most beautiful city's in the world. I have traveled through the USA, Canada & the Bahamas, and still, I find Melbourne is the greatest. In 1981 I was born in a New South Wales mid-coast town of Port Macquarie. I lived there until I was the age of four, and that's when we made the move to Victoria.I grew up in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, not far from the actual city. Most of my family lived there, and was the main cause for the move. I went to school and met lots of friends
superlative skill, whose exploits in the game define him or her as even greater than the great players. Michael Jordan in basketball and boxer Muhammad Ali were two of the mould, breaking through the supposed boundaries of their sport. In the world of cricket, Sir Donald Bradman was such a man. The most prolific (Highly productive) run-maker ever and, in terms of statistics, the greatest batsman ever. At the end of the twentieth century, just over a year before the great man's death, nobody playing the
property and social frameworks proposes that there is a connection between structures, both iconic and otherwise, and the way societies are fabricated. The concept of how landmarks can meet and enhance social needs is relevant to that of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Built in 1853, the stadium can house up to 100,024 people and has quickly become the home of sport in Australia. The MCG has been the scene of many important events, as well as many ‘firsts’ in Australian sporting history. Hosting
The “friendly Games” as they were referred to, the 1956 Melbourne Olympics was the event that made Melbourne the sporting capital of Australia. They were the first country to hold an Olympics outside Europe or Northern America and this was the way they were going to prove they were capable of holding the name of the sporting capital of Australia. Melbourne was announced to hold the Olympic Games on 28 of April 1956 by winning the bid over Buenos Aires by one single vote but with doubts of the games
ball sports played around the world, but Cricket and Baseball are two that are well known and widely spread. Baseball is played in U.S., Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama, Dominican Republic, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Holland, and Italy. Cricket is famous in England and former British colonies. People in U.S.A. hardly know anything about cricket and most of the people have not even heard about cricket except that they know the insect “cricket.” Cricket is a very famous sport around the world
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
A Memorable Game of Cricket Statement of Intention: My intended audiences for this piece of writing are teens who are interested in sports. I aim to show them that in times of need how people from all different interests come together as one to help those in need. I plan to do this with a very soft, friendly yet excited tone of writing, which I am writing a journal entry. Dear Diary, Cricket, one of the best sports any can play, where eleven fielders and two batsmen stand on a field trying
crowd is made up of males. The State of Origin series is held in a large sporting arena. In 2015 it was held at three different sporting venues. Game one was in Sydney New South Wales, at ANZ Stadium. Game two was held in Melbourne Victoria, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), and game three was held in Brisbane Queensland, at Suncorp Stadium. With the use of sporting venues, the staging process is, although a large task, a fairly simple one. Merchandise stands are filled to the brim with Blues
of cricket has had a lot of funny and interesting moments since it's beginning. Some memories are funny while others are sad or informative, but overall, this game of sport has had some really great moments that're worth sharing in a compilation of cricket facts. Let's start out by looking at some of the funny moments that happened in cricket during the past few years and some of the moments where a game of cricket was stopped due to animals. Funny Cricket Facts In 1889, a game of cricket in a
Soccer, or also known as “Football”, is one of the most popular outdoor team sports in Australia. In 2006, a total of 970,728 people in Australia played soccer, with 435,728 as registered players, and 535,000 as unregistered players. With coaches and referees included, it is estimated that about 3.1 million people are involved in the sport, which is higher than any other sport in Australia. Origin: Soccer was introduced to Australia by British immigrants in the late 19th century. The first club
The opening NSWRL Pathways camp of 2018 commenced at Narrabeen yesterday, with the state’s most promising young Rugby League talent gathering to be guided by managers and coaches that include a host of True Blues. The three-day camp is one of the many long-term steps that aim to develop players as young as under-16s into potential State of Origin players further down the track, with junior Origin games (u-16s, u-18s and u-20s) being played annually against Queensland for them. For the under-16s