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	Adelaide Oval South Australia
		Although the Adelaide Oval is home to the "Red Backs" cricket team, Australian Football and Rugby Union are also played at the oval.
		The Adelaide Oval holds about 34,000 spectators with the 3 main grandstands, the Bradman Stand, named after Adelaide's famous All Rounder, the Western Wing and also the Chappell Stands.
		Adelaide Oval the South Australian Cricket Association's historic cricket ground.
	www.adelaideoval.com (171 words)

	Rediff On The NeT Cricket: India Down Under - Grounds - Adelaide Oval
		Adelaide, in fact, is known as a featherbed; a batsman's paradise.
		The Adelaide Oval has had a reputation for being a "draw" venue, but belying that assumption is the fact that 7 of the last 8 Tests here have ended in results.
		The playing area itself is shaped like a true oval, with short square boundaries inviting to those batsmen who are strong square of the wicket, and with the straight boundaries which are possibly the longest in the world.
	www.rediff.com /sports/austour/adelaid.htm (1271 words)

	Adelaide Oval - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Adelaide Oval is an oval in Adelaide, South Australia.
		Adelaide Oval was also home base for most of the Adelaide Rams rugby league team's short history.
		This was the subject of a lengthy dispute with the Adelaide City Council, due to environmental issues relating to the parklands area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adelaide_Oval (644 words)

	b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal
		Adelaide Oval is an icon of Australian sporting culture – a tradition that has had a chequered and ambivalent history for Indigenous people.
		Adelaide Oval is framed by one of the dominant ‘tropes’ of Australian identity – Australia as a new Britannia.
		Adelaide Oval becomes a complex of hyper-sites (Baudrillard 1994) located on the television screens of fans around the world, framed and interpreted through their local traditions, but symbolising an archetypal British, cricketing oval located in Adelaide – a city of churches, parks, well-planned streets and Victorian architecture.
	www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au /vol2no1_2003/hemmingrigney_oval.html (5998 words)

	SACA - Overview
		Adelaide Oval is one of the most beautiful and picturesque cricket grounds in the world and is home to the West End Redbacks - South Australia's cricket team.
		With two new stands, completed in August 2003 on the eastern side, the ground has a capacity for football of about 34,000, and for cricket about 32,000, and is host to not only these sports, but also rugby league, rugby union and concerts.
		For a virtual tour of Adelaide Oval, click on the link to the left of your screen, and to read more about the Oval, click on the History button at the top of your screen.
	www.cricketsa.com.au /Content.aspx?p=75 (106 words)

	SACA - History
		Adelaide Oval is widely regarded as the most picturesque Test cricket ground in the world, with St Peter's Cathedral rising behind an elegant Edwardian scoreboard and Moreton Bay fig trees at the northern end, the Mount Lofty Ranges to the east, and nearby city skyline to the south.
		The fence was moved to the oval's edge in 1911, the same year the famous scoreboard designed by the architect Kenneth Milne was used for the first time.
		The last football grand final at the Adelaide Oval was in 1973 and the largest crowd since then was the rock concert by Elton John and Billy Joel in 1998 which drew 37,000 patrons.
	www.cricketsa.com.au /Content.aspx?p=93 (443 words)

	Rugby League History - RL1908.com - Adelaide Rams
		An Adelaide consortium under the control of the South Australian Rugby League, lodged an application in mid-1994 to the ARL to join the expanded 1995 premiership - it was announced that the side would be named the Adelaide Aces.
		The Rams permanently abandoned the open spaces of Adelaide Oval in round 15 with a "Steel Cities" match against Illawarra in Whyalla - the Steelers won the match 39-4 to further dishearten the few remaining loyal fans who had travelled from the capital city.
		Adelaide was told by News Ltd: "We have concluded that further significant financial commitment by News, in addition to funds received from the NRL, is not financially viable".
	www.rl1908.com /Clubs/Adelaide-Rams.htm (1497 words)

	Australian Stadiums :: Adelaide Oval
		Adelaide Oval now has three main grandstands: the 2-tiered Bradman Stand at the Southern end, a one level stand, which stretches the whole Western wing, and the new Chappell Stands on the Eastern side of the ground which were constructed in 2003.
		Adelaide Oval installed a world-class lighting system, enabling the towers to be lowered into the ground to be out of sight when they weren't required.
		Other sports to be played at Adelaide Oval apart from Cricket include Australian Football since 1877 in the SANFL and Rugby League in 1997 and 1998.
	www.austadiums.com /stadiums/stadiums.php?id=2 (228 words)

	Postcards - Adelaide Oval Tour
		First stop on the Adelaide Oval heritage tour is the Bradman Stand where you get a bird's eye view of what's considered one of the most picturesque sporting grounds in the world.
		The steeply cambered cycling track was a feature of the oval until 1901 and is just one of the many stories attached to this historic ground.
		But as everyone knows, Adelaide Oval's international reputation stems from well over a century of first class cricket, with some of the great test matches having been played here.
	www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/adel_oval.html (704 words)

	Rugby League History - RL1908.com - Adelaide Rams
		An Adelaide consortium under the control of the South Australian Rugby League, lodged an application in mid-1994 to the ARL to join the expanded 1995 premiership - it was announced that the side would be named the Adelaide Aces.
		The Rams permanently abandoned the open spaces of Adelaide Oval in round 15 with a "Steel Cities" match against Illawarra in Whyalla - the Steelers won the match 39-4 to further dishearten the few remaining loyal fans who had travelled from the capital city.
		Adelaide was told by News Ltd: "We have concluded that further significant financial commitment by News, in addition to funds received from the NRL, is not financially viable".
	rl1908.com /Clubs/Adelaide-Rams.htm (1497 words)

	Funeral to be held at Adelaide Oval - www.theage.com.au
		Funeral to be held at Adelaide Oval - www.theage.com.au
		Yesterday South Australian captain Darren Lehmann, who was with Hookes on Sunday night when he was felled, and coach Wayne Phillips arrived back in Adelaide with the rest of the SA team, grim-faced and refusing to comment to waiting media.
		A set of stumps, from Hookes's last match at the oval, and his bat and state cap are likely to adorn the centre pitch at the funeral.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/01/21/1074360832427.html?from=storyrhs (329 words)

	PM - Adelaide Oval curator makes pitch for Ashes test
		The Adelaide Oval Curator Les Burdett is in his 37th successive season in the job.
		NANCE HAXTON: Adelaide Oval is bustling with frenetic last minute preparations in the lead up to the start of the second Ashes test on Friday.
		The Adelaide Oval is widely regarded as one of the world's most beautiful grounds, and is also renowned as a perfect pitch for batting, to the extent of building a reputation as being overly batsman friendly.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2006/s1800618.htm (894 words)

	Adelaide Oval \| Technorati Blog
		Adelaide Oval and CBD, St Peter's Cathedral in the background over the Parklands, CBD over the Torrens River.
		NORTH Adelaide was forced to overcome a swag of injuries and a committed West Adelaide to claim the crucial premiership points at Broadspectrum Oval yesterday.
		Pearl Jam 1998-03-07 Thebarton Oval, Adelaide, AU [AUD]
	blog.technorati.ro /adelaide-oval (329 words)

	Adelaide, Australia
		The town's further development confirmed his judgment, and the people of Adelaide are proud of the layout he designed with its wide streets, squares and open spaces.
		The leading theaters are in the Festival Centre in King William Road, in the north of the city (the Playhouse, the Space Theatre) and in Grote Street (Her Majesty's Theatre).
		Adelaide used to have a reputation for being somewhat strait-laced, and it is still a very conservative, quiet and orderly city.
	www.planetware.com /australia/adelaide-aus-sa-a.htm (781 words)

	Oval - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Australia an oval is a sportsground that is designed for cricket and Australian rules football, in contrast to the rectangular field sports of soccer, rugby union and rugby league.
		Adelaide Oval is a cricket ground in Adelaide.
		OVAL is an acronym, and commonly used short-form, for Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oval (239 words)

	South Adelaide
		The advent of the Adelaide Crows in 1991 was arguably the single most momentous event in the history of football in South Australia.
		In contrast to this, the previous generation of South Australian football aficionado, nurtured on the rich milk of a vibrantly intoxicating local competition that enjoyed near saturation media coverage, could perhaps be excused for sometimes feeling both bewildered and alienated.
		From South Adelaide's perspective, the fact that it was now being more or less compelled to seek salvation through community involvement and interaction was ironical in the extreme, as we shall see.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /south_adelaide.htm (2082 words)

	Adelaide travel guide - Wikitravel
		Adelaide is centrally located among the wine regions of McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley and Clare Valley, all of which are within day-trip distance.
		Adelaide is within a reasonable driving distance of the capital cities on the east coast.
		The Adelaide Botanic Gardens are FREE to enter and are a worthwhile visit, the gardens are quiet and relaxing even though they're in the heart of the city.
	wikitravel.org /en/Adelaide (2904 words)

	The Hindu : All about the Adelaide Oval
		Adelaide is the capital and chief city in the State of South Australia.
		The first mention of the game in the State came in 1839 when some weekend cricket was played at the `London Tavern' in Adelaide.
		The Adelaide Oval is considered one of the most picturesque Test grounds in the world.
	www.hindu.com /2003/12/12/stories/2003121200852100.htm (302 words)

	Cricinfo - Grounds - Adelaide Oval
		The Adelaide Oval remains one of cricket's most picturesque Test venues despite recent developments to increase the capacity and upgrade the facilities.
		In 1932-33, the Bodyline affair reached its nadir at The Oval when Bill Woodfull and Bert Oldfield were struck, and on the third day mounted police patrolled to keep the 50, 962 spectators in order.
		The western public and members grandstands and the famous scoreboard are all items listed on the City of Adelaide Heritage Register, and two news stands finished in 2003 have raised the capacity to 34,000 (for football) and 32,000 for cricket.
	content-www.cricinfo.com /australia/content/ground/56293.html (445 words)

	Port Adelaide
		Football in Adelaide at this time was played according to a variety of different sets of rules, with the Old Adelaide and Kensington sets being the most popular.
		A total of twelve clubs, including Port Adelaide, sent two delegates each to the meeting, at which it was resolved to establish an Association to oversee football in the colony, the first organisation of its type in Australia (see footnote 3).
		Initially, the oval was leased for an annual rental of 10 shillings, with the sole condition being that it had to be maintained and used as a cricket and football ground.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /port_adelaide.htm (4097 words)

	Adelaide Accommodation and Services
		The Adelaide Oval is the most beautiful cricket ground in the country and offers its patrons a relaxing day on the grassed hills.
		The country atmosphere of Adelaide allows visitors to easily access areas such as the Adelaide Hills and the Beach town of Glenelg.
		Adelaide is only one hour drive from Australia's most famous wine producing region, the Barossa Valley and 4 other popular regions such as the Mclaren Vale.
	www.inaustralia.com.au /sa/Adelaide_acc.asp (139 words)

	Adelaide Oval Match day information 2006-07 - Cricket Australia
		The request comes as excitement for the second 3 mobile Ashes Test heightens and Adelaide Oval is gearing itself for the largest Test crowd it has seen in more than 40 years.
		With the introduction of full bag searches, and the sell-out days of cricket, patrons are encouraged to plan their day at the cricket and get to the ground as early as possible.
		The SACA also reminds patrons that Eskys are no longer allowed inside the Adelaide Oval, a ban which was introduced last season to further prevent alcohol being brought into the ground.
	www.cricket.com.au /default.aspx?s=adelaidematchinfo (797 words)

	Adelaide Oval’s Historic Trees: In the Adelaide City region of South Australia
		Adelaide Oval is as much a part of the city as the River Torrens or Mount Lofty.
		While there have been a lot of changes at the Oval, the Pepper Tree at the back of the Bradman Stand is a link with the ground's earliest past.
		For cricket and footy fans the Port Jackson figs and their Moreton Bay cousins are as much a part of Adelaide Oval as the heritage stands and scoreboard.
	www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/adel_oval_trees.html (497 words)

	Carlton at Adelaide Oval - BigFooty
		Adelaide oval is also not up to AFL standard.
		As for the Adelaide Oval being used as an alternative to Footy Park for Crows/Power home games; the ground is many, many millions of dollars away from having either the capacity or facilities to be a suitable replacement.
		We have a large supporter base in Adelaide and it would encourage a lot of them to join up (I'm already a member, for what it matters) I, personally, love the idea of watching my beloved Blues having a kick at Adelaide Oval.
	www.bigfooty.com /forum/showthread.php?t=228340 (1721 words)

	Adelaide Museum Attractions
		Adelaide Gaol Historic Site and Museum Thebarton - Take a walk around the old Adelaide Gaol historic site on a guided or a self-guided tour and see aspects of prison life in South Australia over a period...
		More Adelaide Oval Tours And Museum Adelaide - Adelaide Oval is widely regarded as the most picturesque test cricket ground in the world, with St Peter's Cathedral rising behind an elegant Edwardian...
		More Bradman Collection, The Adelaide - Sir Donald Bradman was the greatest batsman in the history of cricket and you can see his priceless and personal collection of cricket memorabilia spanning...
	www.about-australia.com /travel-guides/south-australia/adelaide/attractions/museum (1212 words)

	The Adelaide Review [Sport] Mid-week at the Adelaide Oval
		The old items at Adelaide Oval are constantly refreshed with paint – rich green, warm yellows, white pickets.
		As seagulls circled around the oval and came into land, I was surprised the grass failed to ripple as they touched down.
		Adelaide Oval is as good a place as any to acquire these spectating attributes, especially mid-week at Shield games.
	www.adelaidereview.com.au /archives/2004_11_26/sport_story1.shtml (1274 words)

	Things to do in Adelaide, South Australia
		Adelaide, the 'city of churches' is named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the consort to King William IV.
		For the sports orientated, a tour of the Adelaide Oval, the home of state and international cricket, is a must.
		Adelaide is the ideal gateway from which to explore South Australia's country regions.
	www.topfoodandwinetours.com.au /adelaide.php (1386 words)

	Adelaide \| District Guide\| City Guide \| WCities Destination Guide
		Both the city and elegant North Adelaide are isolated from the surrounding suburbs by a leafy moat of parklands.
		Spanning nearly 70 kilometres north to south, the Adelaide coastal fringe runs from North Haven marina to the sumptuous white sands of Sellicks Beach.
		Adelaide is unquestionably the wine capital of Australia, simply because it lies within an hour's drive of some of the finest vineyards in the southern hemisphere.
	www.wcities.com /en/guide/gen_intro/265/guide.html (955 words)

	The Fanatics :: Ashes :: Adelaide Oval
		The Adelaide Oval is an oval in Adelaide, South Australia.
		The oval is managed by the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA).
		Adelaide Oval is the home ground of the Southern Redbacks, the South Australian state cricket team.
	www.thefanatics.com /ashes/index.php?id=336 (170 words)

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