Keepashes: I simply can't bring myself to do Lords or the Oval until 2009 is over
![bye :bye](./images/smilies/zz-bye.gif)
, and you can't expect anyone from Sydney to do justice to the {insert extravagant praise here, GG} MCG. On the other hand, the MCG kindly hosted the South Melbourne /Sydney Swans in their Grand Final appearances of 2005 (W) and 2006 (L) and so I searched Cricinfo for other grounds in Melbourne. I felt sorry for this little one, which has only hosted one first-class match in its life, 84 years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cr ... _Australia . This was Victoria v Western Australia, 1925/26, Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Melbourne, 6,7,9 November 1925 (3-day match). Result: Victoria won by an innings and 282 runs. (WH Ponsford c Quinlan b Drew 158, HSB Love c Hewson b Buttsworth 103:
http://static.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1 ... V1925.html .
I decided to make it famous to CMS folk.
For followers of the Fitzroy / Brisbane Lions, it is already famous, as Brunswick Oval (named after the Street, not the suburb of Brunswick). But it began life as the home ground of the Collingwood
![disappointed :no](./images/smilies/disappointed.gif)
Commercial CC, and the pavilion in the picture is for cricket. It - and the small elongated "oval" beside Alfred Crescent to the ENE, are the venue for the Edinburgh Cricket Club, as documented in the chronology on their website, which will serve as a tribute to the struggles of all little local clubs everywhere.