Cricket Windies
The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - Printable Version

+- Cricket Windies (https://cricketwindies.com)
+-- Forum: Rally Around West Indies! (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-1.html)
+--- Forum: We don't like cricket. We love it. (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-2.html)
+--- Thread: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. (/thread-33694.html)



The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - chairman - 12-14-2016

[Image: GettyImages-453645216-750x500.jpg]


Re: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - chairman - 12-14-2016

More English than jam and Jerusalem, but the really very pretty Wormsley is actually the project of an American. John Paul Getty Jr, who became a British citizen, was the son of John Paul Getty – one of the richest men in the world – and his love for cricket was sparked by Mick Jagger. The fruits of his labour are this ground in Buckinghamshire, and it’s one you’ve really got to visit.


Re: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - to7update - 12-15-2016

Really stunning picture you've got there!

What about this one?  Wink

[Image: HPCA-Stadium.jpg]

HPCA (Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association) Stadium, Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, India.


Re: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - pwarbi - 12-15-2016

Some of the backdrops to where cricket pitches are set can be stunning, and I don't think you get that in many other sports. We might be slightly biased as we love cricket, but you don't get many football or baseball stadiums for example being located in the most beautiful parts of the world. Not the teams I follow anyway, and the backdrop tends to be an industrial estate with a few gas cylinders to look at!


Re: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - ketchim - 12-15-2016

Where is Bourda in Guyana  :-\


Re: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - to7update - 12-16-2016

What do you mean @ketchim?

You are quite right @pwarbi, cricket enables some of the best views, even if we are there to watch the game!

This one seems to have some sort of filter here...

[Image: Newlands-Cricket-Ground.jpg]


Re: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - ketchim - 12-16-2016

[quote author=to7update link=topic=107522.msg722665#msg722665 date=1481899629]
What do you mean @ketchim?
[/quote]
The crowd throw bottles onto the outfield after the controversial run-out
of Clifford McWatt, West Indies v England, Guyana, February 26, 1954

Beautiful !  8)

[Image: 12764.jpg]


Re: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - ketchim - 12-16-2016

The wreckage after the riot, WSC West Indies v WSC Australia
Guyana, March 25, 1979
Beautiful !  :-[

                    [Image: 66793.jpg]


Re: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - ketchim - 12-16-2016

AND the most beautiful sight to behold (drum roll,please)  :-*

Cricket fans in a tree outside the ground, West Indies v England
Bourda, Guyana, February 28, 1998.

[Image: 241955.jpg]


Re: The Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds In The World. - to7update - 12-17-2016

lol, we are talking about another level of being beautiful here haha!!  Big Grin That's an important part of the game though, when democracy is expressed through bottles. Smile

LOL, why build stadiums if we can have spectators on the trees!!  8)

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=107522.msg722718#msg722718 date=1481924168]
The crowd throw bottles onto the outfield after the controversial run-out
of Clifford McWatt, West Indies v England, Guyana, February 26, 1954

Beautiful !  8)

[Image: 12764.jpg]
[/quote]