The third of the three activities that Tess, Adam and Lucy gave me to use during my time in Sydney was for a 90 minute tour of the SCG. The original booking that I made was for last Wednesday but they cancelled that day’s tour because they were setting up for Mardi Gras, which was taking place on Saturday. They rebooked my tour for the Sunday afternoon (within an hour of the Blackcaps beating the Aussies to win the T20 series). For the record not one mention was made of that fact.
We started in the museum before a wander through the Walk of Fame, which featured all the sports played at the SCG such as rugby union, NRL, AFL, and the Empire Games just to name a few. We were taken to the new members stand and this included a tour of the media rooms, radio commentary box, TV studio and the press conference room before we were then allowed access to the grass playing surface (but not near the pitch).
Finally the tour took us to the old members stand, and this included the cricket dressing rooms for both the home and the away teams. I got to see and sit in the cubicle were Steve Smith sits, and I wanted to leave him something to remember me by…but this is a family blog.
Did you know that the SCG was originally called The Garrison Ground until about the late 1800’s – I expect that will be a question to come up on The Chase Australia one day and now we will all know the answer…
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