Second Test: Brisbane<\/p>\n
The Gabba<\/p>\n
Capacity<\/p>\n
37,000<\/p>\n
Opened<\/p>\n
1895<\/p>\n
Ashes Tests hosted<\/p>\n
22<\/p>\n
England wins<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
Australia wins<\/p>\n
13<\/p>\n
Draws<\/p>\n
5<\/p>\n
Traditionally the venue for the first Ashes Test, this time the Gabba hosts the second.<\/p>\n
And in a further change to convention, it\u2019s going to be a day-night Test.<\/p>\n
What does that mean? Well, don\u2019t worry about clearing your diary for day five because the ball is likely to swing round corners here: the ultimate test of any batter\u2019s technique.<\/p>\n
Brisbane has traditionally been Australia\u2019s fortress, particularly against England who haven\u2019t won there since 1986. It\u2019s only in recent years that touring teams have had success.<\/p>\n
This imposing stadium, situated on Vulture Street, does some funny things to Englishmen.<\/p>\n
It was here that Nasser Hussain famously chose to bowl first and watched Australia rack up almost 500, while four years later, Steve Harmison opened the Ashes with a delivery that was so wide it was caught by second slip Andrew Flintoff.<\/p>\n
Mitchell Johnson terrorised England here in 2013 and few will forget the first ball of the last Ashes down under when Mitchell Starc bowled Rory Burns around his pads.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a bear pit of a ground, too.<\/p>\n
When England\u2019s Simon Jones was stretched off with a career-threatening knee injury in 2002, a supporter gave him a less than sympathetic send-off.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I was carried off, someone in the crowd shouted that I was a \u2018weak Pommie\u2019 and threw a can of lager at me,\u201d Jones recalled. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t take it personally. The Gabba was like that. It\u2019s a seriously impressive stadium with its own intimidating properties.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not going to be around forever, though. The Gabba is scheduled to be demolished after the 2032 Olympic Games, with cricket moving to a new 60,000-seater stadium in the Victoria Park area of Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second Test: Brisbane The Gabba Capacity 37,000 Opened 1895 Ashes Tests hosted 22 England wins 4 Australia wins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-269823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}