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20 january 2016 English County Cricket 2016: Checkout - Ashley French, He is a "rising star" at the Putney cricket club in England. One day he might be bigger than Graham Gooch. :-) www.putneycricketclub.com/players/default.cshtml?page=all cheers Mark L Frankling

Hi folks,

I spent a day or two restoring this one (with appropriate attribution & link back to here). What a wonderful piece of luck that Vaniman happened to be there to capture this historic moment in Test Cricketing history! Hope you like it...

Amazing image of Sydney's iconic SCG, thanks for sharing SL-NSW

This was the final day of 2nd test between Australia & England held at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Australia won by 72 runs. www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/62431.html

NLA,thanks for sharing the historical photograph.

Very cool.

Did anyone notice? That's a bicycle racing track around the ground. I didn't know they raced there at all.

Just found this on Wikipedia: In 1896 the Ladies' Stand was opened, along with a concrete cycling track which circled the inside of the ground. One of the carpenters who built the formwork for the track was George Bradman, father of Don Bradman. In 1898 floodlights were built over the cycling track so that night events could be held. In 1904 the scoreboard was rebuilt at the top of The Hill and in 1909 the Sheridan Stand, named after Phil Sheridan, was opened at the southern end, replacing the earlier Smokers' Stand. In the period up to World War I the SCG was used for a wide variety of sports including athletics, tennis, baseball, football and cycling. The cycling track however was removed in 1920. In 1924 Ned Gregory's scoreboard was closed and the concrete scoreboard at the back of the Hill opened.