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| \n Capacity<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 37,000<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Opened<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1895<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Ashes Tests hosted<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 22<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n England wins<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Australia wins<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 13<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Draws<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\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<\/div>\n Second Test: Brisbane The Gabba Capacity 37,000 Opened 1895 Ashes Tests hosted 22 England wins 4 Australia wins 13 Draws 5 Traditionally the venue for the first Ashes Test, this time the Gabba hosts the second. And in a further change to convention, it\u2019s going to be a day-night Test. What does that mean? Well,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |