Sydney Cricket Ground Profile

The Sydney Cricket Ground is a Cricket stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is intended for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, several rugby league football and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League. It is owned and operated by the SCG Trust that also manage the Stadium positioned round the corner.

History
In 1811, the director of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, recognized the second Sydney Common, concerning one-and-a-half miles wide and extending south from South Head Rd to where Randwick Racecourse is today. Part sand hills, part inundate and positioned on the south-eastern fringe of the city, it was used as a garbage dump in the 1850s and not regarded as an ideal place for sport. In 1851, part of the Sydney ordinary south of Victoria Barracks was approved to the British Army for use as a garden and cricket ground for the military. Its first abuser was the 11th North Devonshire Regiment which compressed and graded the southern part of the ransack variety neighboring to the station.
In the next combine of years, the teams from Victoria Barracks shared themselves into a more enduring organization and called themselves the Garrison Club. The ground consequently became recognized as the Garrison Ground when it was first opened in February 1854.
Up until that time Hyde Park had been the foremost honorable and racing ground in the settlement but when it was committed as open gardens in 1856 city cricketers and footballers had to find everyplace else to play.

Notable Events
In1854 the Garrison Club beaten the Royal Victoria Club in the first recorded cricket competition to be played at what was then the Garrison Ground. Although major sports event were played at the Domain, the Garrison Ground was used for perform by the NSW cricket team in 1860 and by the Victorian players in 1861 the before inter-colonial matches in those years.
Cricket was opening played in Australia in Sydney\\\\\\\'s Hyde Park in 1803. However, up awaiting the scheduled time of trustees to appear after the SCG in the late 1870s, some different grounds had been used for most important matches. The Domain was first used for inter-colonial sports event and then the Albert Ground in Red fern but in time both became occupied, the Domain because of its poor situation and for the reason that it could not be fenced in and the Albert Ground as it blocked in the late 1870s.
After the finality of the Albert Ground the New South Wales Cricket organization began using the Association Ground. The first main match played there was the final of the Civil Service Challenge Cup on 25 October 1877, among the New South Wales Government Printing Office and the Audit Office, and the first first-class contest was the inter-colonial match, New South Wales against Victoria, in February 1878.

 

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