Adelaide Oval Tours and Museum
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The Adelaide Oval Tours and Museum takes you for a tour to the Adelaide Oval Stadium and the Adelaide Oval Museum. The Oval is considered as one of the most prestigious and the most beautiful cricket grounds in the whole world. The stadium serves as a venue for a large number of test cricket matches. This marvelous stadium offers a fantastic view of St. Peter's Cathedral tower and is surrounded by the Moreton Bay fig trees on its northern side. The stadium features a huge Edwardian period scoreboard. The green ground of the stadium has served as a venue for a large number of test cricket matches, many of which were won by Australia. The first test match was held over here in the year 1884. The match was between England and Australia. The Adelaide Oval has two huge gates called the Victor Richardson and Clarrie Grimmett gates.
The Adelaide Oval Museum is located on the first floor of the Sir Donald Bradman Stand. Here you can check out the photographs, memorabilia and other articles related to cricket. Beside these, you can also find numerous artifacts relating to footballs and rugby displayed inside the exhibitions of the Adelaide Oval Tours and Museum. Another major attraction of this place is the Favell-Dansie Indoor Center.
You can go for the Adelaide Oval Tours and Museum on Tuesday and Thursdays, when the museum is open for public viewing. The visiting hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. During cricket seasons, the museum is also open on Sundays.
Thus if you have a passion for sports, especially cricket, then you can surely come for the Adelaide Oval Tours and Museum and spend some time learning about the sports history of Australia.
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