A tour of the Adelaide Oval

For those of you coming to the third Test, here is a sneak peek of the ground that I visited today.

A scale model of the ground

The highlight of the tour for me was a look around the iconic score board, which is still manually operated and it still lights a bulb next to the fielder's batting order number (a practice long discontinued in England)

As you can see there is a lot of wood in the construction of the structure

Here is the view of the pitch from the box looking out from where the batters name would be

This is the switch gear (L) and circuitry (R) for lighting up the bulbs next to  a player's name (whether batting, bowling or fielding).

Well one has to

There are a number of statues around the ground both inside and out. Don Bradman's is outside the ground, but I missed getting a snap of that so Ive grabbed one from the interweb

Sir Don Bradman

The Sir Donald Bradman pavilion

Jason Gillespie                       Darren Lehmann 

The England dressing room for the Test

A view of the pitch from the press box

Finally I went round the Donald Bradman archive at the ground but it is not permitted to take pictures there at the request of the Bradman family. But in the other archive area I grabbed a pic of Barry Richard's bat.