Cricket ground quiz

[Quickenthetempo]

Very good quiz but I was rubbish, only got 5 and missed some big clues.

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[ClaretTony]

I'm amazed - I got 10, with a couple of guesses

[FCBurnley]

Really good Thanks. Got 8 but as you say missed some clues

[Walton]

Took me a long while to get going, and kicked myself at a few, but ended up with 6.

[LeadBelly]

Everybody should've got the one with the tree on the outfield + the one with the gas holder nearby + the one with the football/rugby pitch adjoining.

I didnt get Hastings or Taunton. Most embarrassingly I didnt recognise Trent Bridge, despite once living a few hundred yards away & being a member there for a few years!

Nice pictures, interesting quiz.

[MACCA]

6 but missed 2 of the obvious ones. 2 were educated guesses by process of ilimination from previous correct answer.
Happy with that.

[NL Claret]

9/12 - some useful clues in the photos like Trafford Town Hall!

[MACCA]

Yes if you look around the actual ground or have the option of zoom, they give you a few. Then the process of elimination gets you a couple towards the end.

[Dazzler]

5

[Clarets4me]

9 ... gutted I didn't get Trent Bridge...saw my 1st day of Test Cricket there on 29th July 1977... the day Geoff Boycott ran Derek Randall out at his home ground and notable for being Ian Botham's 1st Test.... I was 13 !

I remember walking around the Ground at lunchtime with my Dad, now 82, and seeing Peter West sitting on a chair on the outfield surrounded by cameras, interviewing two elderly men... I asked him who they were, I remember his response " That son, is Harold Larwood and Bill Voce ! "

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[LeadBelly]

Larwood looked quite an innocuous chap didnt he? Great slingy action and pace though (from films seen as he was a bit before my time).

Good picture of TB there Clarets4me. I was a member at TB 1978-83. I got married at the registry office on Shakespeare Street at c 09.30 on the Friday morning of the 1st ashes test in 1981 and then treated my bride & 2 witnesses to a day down the game in the members pavilion there -with fizz and all.
It rained for a fair bit of the day and we eventually lost that game (though going on to win the series of course).

First time I'd seen G Dilley bowl in that game, loved to watch him thereafter & still love going back to watch any cricket at TB.

[Southportclaret]

Great quiz. Got a couple wrong which was annoying because I've played on all of those grounds except Canterbury and The Oval (which I got right). Missed New Road Worcester and Trent Bridge.

[Clarets4me]

Great quiz. Got a couple wrong which was annoying because I've played on all of those grounds except Canterbury and The Oval (which I got right). Missed New Road Worcester and Trent Bridge.

I think the Trent Bridge picture caught a few out, including me, as it's taken from such an angle that it doesn't show the Trent, nor either the City Ground nor Meadow Lane...

[NL Claret]

The pavilions were the best guide for a few and for edgbaston the scoreboard. Memories of seeing it on tv Gower getting 200* v India (?)