Edgbaston boosts capability for 2018 major match cricket programme
Warwickshire region Cricket Club is responding to demand for its programme of major match cricket in the coming year by boosting capability of its Edgbaston stadium with a temporary stand.
Edgbaston – the biggest cricket location outside of London with a capability of 24,550 – has partnered with Arena seating to add one more tier of seating above its Stanley Barnes stand at the Birmingham end of the ground. Here, it will provide an extra 850 seats for its seven major match days, which includes England’s only Vitality worldwide T20 (IT20) against Australia on 27 June, the very first test of the five-match series against India on 1-5 August as well as Vitality Blast Finals Day on 15 September.
Gareth Roberts, industrial director at Warwickshire region Cricket Club, said:
This will be the third time in the last four years that we have brought in the temporary stand, which is a direct result of the popularity of the fixtures that we’re hosting.
The Vitality IT20 is now 75 per cent per cent offered out, whilst year-on-year ticket sales for Vitality Blast Finals Day are 170 per cent up on last year as well as might offer out before the group stages of the competition get underway. We’ve likewise seen significant demand for day three (Friday) of the test match against India, which will be a extremely special event as England’s 1000th Test.
With one more outstanding allocation of matches to find next year, there is every possibility that we work with Arena seating to boost capability again.
Edgbaston will hold five matches, including a semi-final in next year’s ICC Cricket world Cup, which comes to England as well as Wales for Camiseta Newcastle United the very first time since 1999. It will likewise hold a test in England’s all-important Ashes series against Australia.
Long-term, the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) just recently awarded the Birmingham location the second biggest allocation Camiseta Bayern Munich Camiseta AS Monaco of major matches that have been arranged between 2020 to 2024. This includes a test match in four of the five years, including an Ashes test in 2023, three one-day internationals, three IT20s as well as all five Finals Day of the Vitality Blast.
Edgbaston will likewise hold one of the eight teams in the ECB’s new premier T20 competition, which introduces in 2020.
View from the temporary stand during last year’s ICC Champions Trophy match between India as well as Pakistan
Picture subtitle (main image, top): The temporary stand at Edgbaston’s Ashes test match between England as well as Australia in 2015
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