Sydney Cricket Ground

Ground information

Location

Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales

Coordinates

33°53′30″S 151°13′29″E / 33.89167°S 151.22472°ECoordinates: 33°53′30″S 151°13′29″E / 33.89167°S 151.22472°E

Establishment

1848

Capacity

48,601

Owner

Government of New South Wales

Operator

Sydney Cricket Ground Trust

Tenants

Australia national cricket team,
New South Wales cricket team,
Sydney Swans (AFL)
Sydney Sixers (BBL)
Sydney Sixers (WBBL)

End names

Paddington End (Northern End)
Randwick End (Southern End)

International information

First Test

21 February 1882:

Australia v

England

Last Test

3–7 January 2017:

Australia v

Pakistan

First ODI

13 January 1979:

Australia v

England

Last ODI

22 January 2017:

Australia v

Pakistan

First T20I

9 January 2007:

Australia v

England

Last T20I

31 January 2016:

Australia v

India

Team information

New South Wales Blues	(1878–present)
NSWRL Grand Final (NSWRL)	(1935–1945, 1949, 1952–1987)
Sydney Swans (AFL)	(1982–present)
Sydney Sixers (BBL)	(2011–present)
Sydney Sixers (WBBL)	(2015-present)

As of 4 December 2016
Source: Cricinfo

The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is used for Test cricket, One Day International cricket, Twenty20 cricket and Australian rules football, as well as some rugby league football and rugby union matches. It is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team, the Sydney Sixers of the Big Bash League and the Sydney Swans Australian Football League club. It is owned and operated by the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust that also manages the Sydney Football Stadium located next door. Until the 44,000 seat Football Stadium opened in 1988, the Sydney Cricket Ground was the major rugby league venue in Sydney.

In 1811, the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, established the second Sydney Common, about one-and-a-half miles wide and extending south from South Head Road (now Oxford St) to where Randwick Racecourse is today. Part sandhills, part swamp and situated on the south-eastern fringe of the city, it was used as a rubbish dump in the 1850s and not regarded as an ideal place for sport. In 1851, part of the Sydney Common south of Victoria Barracks was granted to the British Army for use as a garden and cricket ground for the soldiers. Its first user was the 11th North Devonshire Regiment which flattened and graded the southern part of the rifle range adjacent to the Barracks.

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