Cricket: Headingley Stadium history, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 take on Australia
Built in 1889, Headingley Stadium is the home to Yorkshire County Cricket Team, Leeds Rhinos, the rugby league team and the rugby union team, Leeds Carnegie. The one of a kind stadium has two separate grounds, with two sided stand housing facilities. The facility was owned by The Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Company, with Yorkshire County Cricket Club purchasing the ground in 2005. It was announced in 2006 that Headingley would be jointly managed between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867 County Cricket Club and Leeds Rugby. This was following the 19th century Bramall Lane and Park Avenue set up, which had a joint cricket and football-rugby stadium.
In 2005, the Yorkshire County Cricket Club obtained a loan aiming to purchase the cricket ground for £12 million. Most of the members who participated in the vote agreed to the deal and next year, in 2006 the club made public its plans of rebuilding the stand next to the rugby ground to increase the capacity to 20,000. There is also a plan to develop the North stand. But an agreement from both Leeds Rugby Limited and Yorkshire Cricket is needed for that.
Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground, usually referred to just as Headingley Carnegie joins with the rugby stadium through a shared stand. The stadium boasts a capacity of 17,500 and has been hosting Test cricket since 1899. Headingley has witnessed some historic moments, in 1932 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nottinghamshire-c826. In 1948, the Australians made a historic comeback, scoring 404 for 3 on the last day to beat England. Yorkshire and England cricketer, Geoff Boycott achieved an impressive personal record by scoring his hundredth first class hundred in 1977 in the Ashes.
In 1981, Headingley witnessed another dramatic comeback, this time England beating Australia. With odds of 500-1 against them and down by 227 runs, there didn’t seem any way England could go on to win that match. Ian Botham and Bob Willis were the heroes that day, Botham scoring 149 runs and Willis took 8 for 43. This match goes down in the history of Test cricket as being one of the two matches where the side that followed on had gone on to win it.
Today, July 21st 2010, Pakistan will hope to make history of their own at Headingley stadium as they take on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stewart-c91370 Reagan said, “It would be fantastic if we could fill Headingley Carnegie with Yorkshire-based Pakistan and indeed Australia cricket fans. The game is sure to be a great spectacle for neutral cricket fans too with two world class cricketing nations in opposition”.
Today’s match also sets a milestone for Yorkshire CCC, as this will be the first time the Carnegie Pavilion Stand will be used for international Test cricket. The £21m Carnegie Pavilion Stand has previously never been used for International Test cricket, only being reserved for other formats. The match overlaps with the Yorkshire Cricket Mela, a festival which takes place around the same time as Test cricket and is a platform to show the country’s passion for sport, commerce and culture, it is bound to attract large crowds.
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