http://www.yorkshireccc.com/news/pavilionscheme

What will the seating capacity be increased to?

Great News for Yorkshire Cricket and a superb International Venue in the making :)

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Lancashire will also be totally rebuilding 'Old Trafford' after voting to stay at the ground.

The design looks superb, but it's a shame they couldn't buy those houses and increase the size of stand.
Any news about the main stand being replaced?

really good news. england's test venues are really starting to look the part nowadays.

hopefully it'll turn out looking as impressive as the oval's latest addition:

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/6812/britovallondonmillerqc7.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4194/britovalmiller83bmg9.jpg

can anyone tell me which stand the new development will replace on this pic?

http://store.leedsrugby.com/images/aboutus/headingleynewoverhead1.jpg

edit: or this?

http://www.aerialearth.com/images/uploads/0507_Leeds_CC_01_frblk.JPG

I think its the extreme right at the end of the Western Terrace

The Plans for the Rose Bowl are also superb, it will have it's capacity taken to above that of the Oval when they are completed.

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Is it just me who does not quite understand the funding / logic behind this countries plans regarding test arena’s.
i.e. a few years ago when we had 6 test venues, they missed out once every 4 years or so (with the exception of Lords and the Oval), we now have 7 test matches played each summer, 2 at Lords (so each touring team plays at the home of cricket) and 5 for the other grounds (one of which contractually must be at The Oval).

Now this could have meant we had 6 test venues, each with a guaranteed income each year, we all know greater income for Ashes test to say Bangladesh, but a guaranteed income all the same. With this the grounds could have been developed with a greater financial muscle behind so could have improved and increased capacity. (Like buying houses next to Headingley etc).

Instead we now have:
Lords with 2 tests, the Oval with 1 and The Rose Bowl, Sophia Gardens, The Riverside, Headingley, Edgbaston, Trent Bridge and Old Trafford sharing 4 matches each summer (some against opposition who are unlikely to induce a sell out).

So we are likely to have 8 grounds with a capacity between 18,000 and 24,000. None big enough for a really big match, and some which are guaranteed before the year starts to have insufficient matches to justify all this terracing/hospitality.

Somerset's Taunton Ground and Kent's St Lawrence grounds also have big plans.

I was surprised when Sophia Gardens was chosen for the Ashes and given Test status over the Riverside and Rosebowl.

I was surprised when Sophia Gardens was chosen for the Ashes and given Test status over the Riverside and Rosebowl.

I think a lot of us were, especially since the new ground only exists on paper at the moment...

who are the architects of the new headingly stand?

The design looks superb, but it's a shame they couldn't buy those houses and increase the size of stand.
Any news about the main stand being replaced?

Not sure of the status re: the Rugby Ground end, but this thread http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=10715034#post10715034 has a good bit of info on both the cricket and rugby ground.

Re: the houses behind, they are huge Victorian villas, several off them converted into hotels, and many of them now flats. The cost of trying to buy them all out would be astronomic (most likely more than the £12.5m cost of demolishing the Wintershed and building the new pavilion), and I also doubt the council planners would like to see a row of such fine redbrick buildings demolished.

Is it just me who does not quite understand the funding / logic behind this countries plans regarding test arena’s.
i.e. a few years ago when we had 6 test venues, they missed out once every 4 years or so (with the exception of Lords and the Oval), we now have 7 test matches played each summer, 2 at Lords (so each touring team plays at the home of cricket) and 5 for the other grounds (one of which contractually must be at The Oval).

Now this could have meant we had 6 test venues, each with a guaranteed income each year, we all know greater income for Ashes test to say Bangladesh, but a guaranteed income all the same. With this the grounds could have been developed with a greater financial muscle behind so could have improved and increased capacity. (Like buying houses next to Headingley etc).

Instead we now have:
Lords with 2 tests, the Oval with 1 and The Rose Bowl, Sophia Gardens, The Riverside, Headingley, Edgbaston, Trent Bridge and Old Trafford sharing 4 matches each summer (some against opposition who are unlikely to induce a sell out).

So we are likely to have 8 grounds with a capacity between 18,000 and 24,000. None big enough for a really big match, and some which are guaranteed before the year starts to have insufficient matches to justify all this terracing/hospitality.

Some of the Australian grounds are bigger venues, due to the fact that they use multi-purpose stadiums rather than just cricket grounds. Australian football, rugby, athletics and other sports all use stadiums such as the MCC and the same is true for many of the other Australian venues.

The British wouldn't put up with watching our football or rugby on a pitch the size of a cricket ground. There was a plan for a Birmingham mixed stadium offering a 50,000+ cricket capacity, which could also be used for football and athletics, but I think this has been dropped.

Lords is currently contemplating increasing it's capacuty above the 30,000 level, and the new grounds such as the Rosebowl are quite flexible, with the prospect of even increasing future capacity to 30,000+ through a mixture of new schemes and temporary seating. The redevelopments of both Headingley and Old Trafford will be state of the art, and offer some of the best facilities in the world, whilst new grounds such as the Rosebowl and Riverside were beyond the dreams of many in the cricketing world only a decade ago.

The new stand at the Oval and the continuing redevelopment of grounds, has shown what can be done.

I think the selection of Sophia Gardens was a mistake, but the Welsh Taffia obviously made an offer that they couldn't refuse. :lol:

Yorkshire seem to be funding it through running a lottery. Also the relationship with the Leeds Met Carnegie Uni means they are dedicating one floor of the stand to the uni for classrooms etc. This means the Uni gets cheap classrooms and great publicity, and the county gets a subsidised stand and a stadium used on more than just match days.

The New Oval Stand
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/OCS_Stand_%28Surrey_v_Yorkshire_in_foreground%29.JPG/800px-OCS_Stand_%28Surrey_v_Yorkshire_in_foreground%29.JPG

Can a moderator please fix the title of the thread? It's starting to do my head in!

I noticed it too (about a day after posting), but was too embarassed to say anything

great design. English cricket grounds all on the up - good news.

When will next get the cricket world cup?

England will next host the Cricket World Cup in 2019.

Construction to commence Autumn 2007! http://www.yorkshireccc.com/news/warneraccounts
Am looking forward to this as will mean there's the Hotel stand to the East and this to the North - had been looking forward to a redeveloped Rugby stand too but no mention of this.

Construction to commence Autumn 2007! http://www.yorkshireccc.com/news/warneraccounts
Am looking forward to this as will mean there's the Hotel stand to the East and this to the North - had been looking forward to a redeveloped Rugby stand too but no mention of this.

great stuff - this is the excellent 'batwing' like stand opposite the Rugby stand and to the north of the Western Terrace. It will be a superb scheme, and it seems slightly more manageable (financially and logistically) than the Rugby Stand conversion that will impact on both the cricket and rugby (league and union) seasons.

The New Oval Stand
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/OCS_Stand_%28Surrey_v_Yorkshire_in_foreground%29.JPG/800px-OCS_Stand_%28Surrey_v_Yorkshire_in_foreground%29.JPG

Why such a big stand for such a small number of seats? It looks great from the air but silly from inside the Oval.

Is it just me who does not quite understand the funding / logic behind this countries plans regarding test arena’s.
i.e. a few years ago when we had 6 test venues, they missed out once every 4 years or so (with the exception of Lords and the Oval), we now have 7 test matches played each summer, 2 at Lords (so each touring team plays at the home of cricket) and 5 for the other grounds (one of which contractually must be at The Oval).

Now this could have meant we had 6 test venues, each with a guaranteed income each year, we all know greater income for Ashes test to say Bangladesh, but a guaranteed income all the same. With this the grounds could have been developed with a greater financial muscle behind so could have improved and increased capacity. (Like buying houses next to Headingley etc).

Instead we now have:
Lords with 2 tests, the Oval with 1 and The Rose Bowl, Sophia Gardens, The Riverside, Headingley, Edgbaston, Trent Bridge and Old Trafford sharing 4 matches each summer (some against opposition who are unlikely to induce a sell out).

So we are likely to have 8 grounds with a capacity between 18,000 and 24,000. None big enough for a really big match, and some which are guaranteed before the year starts to have insufficient matches to justify all this terracing/hospitality.


Some of the counties think they will lose first-class status if they are not a Test Match Venue, so therefore are developing their grounds at a frantic pace

The Yorkshire chairman was interviewed on Look North today and said the pavilion should be completed early next year. He's then aiming to start on the Rugby Stand end to create a 'super-duper' grandstand and increase capacity to around 23,000.