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Exhilarating! The World\u2019s Best Cricket Venues<\/h2>\n
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The hushed ambience of Lord\u2019s, the boisterous nature of Edgbaston or the glorious views to be found at Dharamsala or Newlands? There are some special places to watch Test cricket, and here Scyld Berry names his 10 favourites\u2026. in reverse order.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The hushed ambience of\u00a0Lord\u2019s<\/a>, the boisterous nature of\u00a0Edgbaston<\/a>\u00a0or the glorious views to be found at Dharamsala or\u00a0Newlands<\/a>? There are some special places to watch Test cricket, and here Scyld Berry names his 10 favourites.<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Dharamsala<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Queen\u2019s Park in Port-of-Spain would have been on this list if it had not fallen into decline, owing not least to poor old drainage, and been overtaken by a new stadium in southern Trinidad. India\u2019s newest Test ground has taken its place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I must confess I have not been there \u2013 England played there after I had retired from touring \u2013 but in my imagination I have followed the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling\u2019s Kim into these hills, and those of the pundits whom Britain sent to measure the short distance to the Russian border.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountains retain a simplicity that is lacking in the plains, and here it is in the form of a small basic stadium \u2013 which, like most stadiums in south Asia, could not be bothered to construct a roof to protect ordinary spectators from the sun, only VIPs. What sets it apart is the view of the Himalaya, even if the snowline recedes annually. Up the road the Dalai Lama has been living in exile since 1959, and yellow-robed lamas pad silently, lending the area a peace not to be found in the plains.<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Mount Maunganui<\/span><\/h3>\n

Once New Zealand\u2019s only purpose-built Test ground, Wellington\u2019s Basin Reserve can be delightful but it can be bone-numbing too when gales howl through the gap between North and South Island. Of England\u2019s management, even Brendon McCullum, though a New Zealander, wraps up warm for Wellington.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A modern purpose-built ground, on the other side of North Island, has therefore taken Wellington\u2019s place. The view from one end is mundane, towards the marshalling yards where wagon-loads of trees are brought by train from denuded hills for shipment; but, viewed from the other end, the Mount is magical. Most of its original flora has been preserved, and the green of New Zealand vegetation has its own luminosity. Down to earth, the pitch helps seamers not spinners, like all the country\u2019s pitches; but a definite result has been achieved in all five Tests to date, once by Bangladesh in one of the all-time shock wins.<\/span><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Edgbaston<\/span><\/h3>\n

If you want to attend a single day of Test cricket in England, and cannot afford the king\u2019s ransom which is a ticket for Lord\u2019s (with a full view), Edgbaston has to be the answer. Even if little or nothing is happening in the middle, the Hollies stand will conjure up something.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What could be more mundane than a Test between England and the modern West Indies? Yet last summer the Hollies inspired virtuoso performances out of Mark Wood,\u00a0who launched rockets<\/a>\u00a0as if he were Cape Canaveral, and Ben Stokes who smote the fastest Test 50 for England off 24 balls \u2013 as, of all things, an opening batsman. The Hollies\u2019 chants are humorous, truly witty at times if the Australians are in town, no longer foul-mouthed and obvious. T20 finals day is also an occasion like no other, a whole day and evening of singing bonhomie.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Eden Gardens<\/span><\/h3>\n

The enormity of Eden Gardens sets it apart: a few stadiums are bigger in their footmark, like the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Ahmedabad, but what they gain in capacity they lose in atmosphere. Eden Gardens, when packed to the gunwales, can never be quiet, whether by day for Tests or night for the Indian Premier League.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The crowd indeed has been known to take over as the principal actor, by rioting in a couple of Tests in the 1960s, and forcing a World Cup semi-final to be abandoned when India were under-performing. A walk across the Gardens themselves \u2013 cricket balls flying to all parts \u2013 heightens the expectation and, once the morning smog and Hooghly mist have been burnt off, the cricket can be as dramatic as anywhere. In March 2001 here, when down and almost out against full-might Australia, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman staged the greatest of all Test partnerships (376) and, possibly, of all sporting comebacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Sydney Cricket Ground<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Melbourne Cricket Ground has lost its original soul: it was constructed on the edge of the new colony of free settlers as a cricket ground, then Australian Rules was invented as a winter pastime to keep the club\u2019s cricketers fit. But now corporate hospitality and Aussie Rules rule; the cricket pitches are drop-ins; Victoria have moved out to St Kilda. Only for its Boxing Day Test and the Big Bash does the MCG survive as a cricket stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Sydney Cricket Ground has not quite gone the same way, so long as the main pavilion and the Ladies stand remain in all their urbane glory of painted green ironwork and wooden benches. Here Australia\u2019s finest cricketers have always strode out to the middle, or to the nets behind the pavilion to go through their paces in the public eye. Being the Oval of Australia so to speak, where the last Test venue of each summer is staged, the SCG is where the greats bow out to their well-earned applause. After this winter\u2019s Ashes will it be Steve Smith, or one or two of Australia\u2019s fast bowlers, and\/or Ben Stokes?<\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Newlands<\/span><\/h3>\n

The stands are pleasing enough, and especially the stretch of curved embankment known as the Oaks, but it is the clarity of the light that makes Newlands dazzle in the mind\u2019s eye and memory \u2013 and Table Mountain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Few would remember the mountain if it were shrouded in cloud or\u00a0Scotch\u00a0<\/a>mist, but its normal backdrop is a sky as unpolluted as only a southern hemisphere\u2019s can now be.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ground\u2019s Test history has, since the fall of apartheid, become multiracial, so that all of the world\u2019s best cricketers of recent generations have performed here \u2013 and, most notably perhaps, not one of South Africa\u2019s exceedingly fine and fast bowlers, but Shane Warne, who bowled almost the whole of one burning day in 2002, and finished with a match-winning six for 161 off 70 overs \u2013 in one innings. This square does give everyone a chance, not only the pace bowlers who wax at Centurion and Johannesburg. Trains to Newlands from central\u00a0Cape Town<\/a>\u00a0are rumoured to be not always safe \u2013 so stay if possible at the\u00a0Vineyard Hotel<\/a>\u00a0in Newlands, so called because planted in its garden were the first grapevines in South Africa that were brought to fruition, back in the 17th century.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Trent Bridge<\/span><\/h3>\n

No Test ground in England has such demotic origins as Trent Bridge, the product of professional cricketers like William Clarke, who moved into the Trent Bridge Inn after marrying the landlady, Frank Parr whose famous tree has now gone, William Gunn, who made cricket bats with his mate Moore, and Arthur Shrewsbury who captained England more than anyone before amateurs took over. Cricket in Nottingham remains the game of the people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Corporate hospitality boxes are few; celebrities do not sit in the stands waiting to be seen by cameras as in London; the crowds flowing over the Trent\u2019s bridge take possession of this ground and its soul. Freshness also stems from the prevailing greenness, not only of the turf but of officials in their blazers, reminding us of Sherwood Forest on Nottingham\u2019s other side. Renovations will be taking place during the Test against Zimbabwe but the old pavilion and the changing rooms, constructed for the 1899 Ashes Test, are due to re-emerge revitalised. The ground\u2019s proportions are not classical: the new Radcliffe Road stand had to be built almost vertiginously steep to fit into the confines, while the boundary behind square-leg was short enough for Johnny Bairstow to launch Bazball in his\u00a0match-winning hundred against New Zealand in 2022<\/a>. It can be a paradise for batsmen, and spectators too.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Adelaide Oval<\/span><\/h3>\n

Little can be said for day-night Tests, except for increased viewing figures in the evening for broadcasters, and crowds dwindled in Adelaide as dinner time approached, but this winter the Test will be restored to its diurnal glory. (If it had been yet another day\/nighter, I would have been tempted to replace Adelaide in this list with Christchurch\u2019s Hagley Oval, though Antarctic winds can make it unbearable in its exposed parkland.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Adelaide\u2019s splendour begins with the old road bridge and the new footbridge that make it the most accessible of all Test grounds; continues with the embankment of the Hill that has been allowed to remain, and the old wooden scoreboard on it, which still creaks in the sun and wind like an ancient mariner\u2019s ship; and carries round to the nets out the back, and the marquees where the affluent of South Australia can indulge in the finest of local seafood,\u00a0wine\u00a0<\/a>from the hills and fruit from the Riverina. Oh, and the pitches are also excellent \u2013 if a pink ball is not darting round on them under floodlights \u2013 and mostly produce a fifth-day finish.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Galle<\/span><\/h3>\n

If you could go for a day-long picnic beside the sea anywhere in the world, Galle is as beautiful as anywhere, for its combination of natural and man-made finery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Throw a Test match into this setting and the day out is almost complete. At whichever end of Galle\u2019s ground you sit, you have sea to either side: either the Indian ocean, featuring a distant tanker or wooden fishing boats coming home, or the port side, where they unload their catch straight on to the harbour wall. If you are sitting with the city of Galle behind you, a no less delicious sight: the walls of the old fort built by the Portuguese then Dutch in their pursuit of spices, which were stored in their handsome stone warehouses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only those who were flogged in Latin for failing to translate \u201cthe soldiers and the virgins love the ramparts\u201d can dislike this view. The Fort is a Unesco site, which could justifiably be extended to include the cricket ground, which has seen highs and lows: the 800th and last Test wicket taken by Muttiah Muralitharan, and the tsunami which washed over the ground and destroyed the pavilion. A week of Test cricket here, if slow-paced, is more enjoyable still if the Sri Lankan Board has forgotten to book up the Lighthouse hotel, on the coast and just out of town, before publishing the dates. The only fly in the ointment staying there is no mosquito but the undertow which can tear the unwary swimmer out to sea, as England\u2019s spinner Gareth Batty once was.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Lord\u2019s<\/span>
\nFor all the changes in the global game, Lord\u2019s is still the ground of all cricket grounds, and a Test between England and Australia is the fixture of all cricket fixtures.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The field is not the flattest \u2013 an eight-foot drop from the Grandstand down to the Tavern \u2013 but nowhere else is so carefully organised, every blade of grass in its place. This village-like slope indeed offers an additional test of skill for international batsmen \u2013 because it disrupts their balance, so their head tends to fall down the slope while batting at the pavilion end \u2013 and one which some of the finest have never passed: Jacques Kallis averaged 10 at Lord\u2019s, Ricky Ponting averaged 16, Sachin Tendulkar 21, and no Test 50 between them, let alone a century. Yet they have all run upon this sward, every one of the finest cricketers \u2013 a combination of ancient and modern that is reaffirmed by the Victorian pavilion standing opposite the media centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what if the ground were known, not as Lord\u2019s, but Dark\u2019s, as MCC\u2019s second ground was called. There is something in a name \u2013 are you going to Dark\u2019s next week? \u2013 and the one time when Lord\u2019s was not the premier cricket ground in London was when Prince\u2019s opened in the 1870s, named not for royalty but after the surname of the brothers who ran it. Even then, I would say, the ground in St John\u2019s Wood would still be the cricket ground above all others, the sport\u2019s headquarters, its spiritual home.<\/span><\/p>\n


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