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/ August 16, 2026
North Sydney Oval has been in use since 1867, and it is the rare 19th-century ground that has become busier rather than quieter. On any given year it stages Sheffield Shield cricket, Big Bash fixtures, AFL Women’s matches, Shute Shield rugby union and NSW Cup…
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/ August 16, 2026
Most stadiums claim to be historic. The Racecourse Ground in Wrexham holds a record no other venue can take: it is the oldest international football stadium in the world that still hosts internationals. Wales played their first home international here in 1877 and are still…
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/ August 16, 2026
On 31 August 1968, Garry Sobers walked out at St Helen’s as captain of Nottinghamshire, faced an over from Glamorgan’s Malcolm Nash, and hit every ball for six. It was the first time anyone had scored the maximum 36 runs from a single over in…
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/ August 16, 2026
The County Ground in Derby was not built as a standalone cricket venue. It was laid out inside the loop of Derby Racecourse in 1863, and for the next 76 years horses ran around a cricket ground that sat in the middle of the track.
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/ August 16, 2026
Halfway up a hill in Crosspool, on the western edge of Sheffield, is a sloping grass pitch with a shed behind one goal and a cricket square next door. There is no bowl, no tier, no roof over most of it. There is, however, a…
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/ August 16, 2026
North Marine Road is a cricket ground hemmed in on two sides by the back walls of Victorian seaside guesthouses, five minutes’ walk from the North Sea. It opened in 1863, Yorkshire County Cricket Club has played County Championship matches here since 1896, and every…
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/ August 16, 2026
Sussex County Cricket Club did not so much build a new ground in 1872 as move the old one. The club had played at the Royal Brunswick Ground, on the seafront, and when a barley field off Eaton Road was bought in 1871 the turf…
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/ August 16, 2026
Old Trafford Cricket Ground opened in 1857 and has been the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club since 1864. It is England’s second-oldest Test venue after The Oval, and it holds a record no other ground in the world can touch: 17 Cricket World Cup…
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/ August 16, 2026
Most stadiums that spend half a billion dollars on a rebuild throw out the old scoreboard. Adelaide Oval kept its. The hand-operated board on the northern mound, designed by architect F. Kenneth Milne and first used in 1911, still posts the score in letters and…
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/ August 16, 2026
Junction Oval sits at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Lakeside Drive in St Kilda, a few minutes from Melbourne’s bayside beaches, and it has been in use as a sports ground since 1856. For most of the 20th century it was better known for…
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/ August 16, 2026
Wellington’s Basin Reserve is the rarest thing in world sport: a playing field that is also a legally protected historic place. It is the only cricket ground with listed status from Heritage New Zealand, granted in recognition of it being the oldest first-class cricket ground…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Sydney Cricket Ground began life in 1854 as the Garrison Ground, a strip of Moore Park set aside for British soldiers stationed at the nearby Victoria Barracks to play on. Almost 175 years later the army is long gone and the ground is one…
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 oldest sports venues still in active use anywhere in the world — places where professional sport is still played in 2026, some of them nearly two centuries after the first match. The rule: a purpose-built sports venue with permanent spectator…
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/ August 16, 2026
Here are today’s 3 verified theme park & live event stories, covering Theme Parks & Roller Coasters and Live Music & Venues. Every item below links to its original source. The TLDR Theme Parks & Roller Coasters Dreamfinder Is Coming Back to EPCOT’s Journey Into…
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/ August 16, 2026
Son of Beast was a towering wooden roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that opened on April 28, 2000, as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster in the world. Built by the Roller Coaster Corporation of America with track design by Werner Stengel’s…
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/ August 16, 2026
Mount Panorama Circuit is a 6.213-kilometre motor racing track cut into a public road on the outskirts of Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. Opened on 17 March 1938 as a scenic tourist drive built partly as a Depression-era employment project, it doubles as an ordinary…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Kala & Tai Nui Serpentine Body Slides are Universal Volcano Bay’s dueling trap-door drop: two riders step into side-by-side capsules 125 feet (38 m) up inside the Krakatau volcano, the floors release together, and both plunge simultaneously into intertwining serpentine tubes that corkscrew down…
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/ August 16, 2026
Ko’okiri Body Plunge is the signature drop at Universal Volcano Bay in Orlando: a 125-foot (38 m) trap-door body slide that falls at a 70-degree angle straight through the heart of Krakatau, the 200-foot volcano at the center of the park. When Volcano Bay opened…
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/ August 16, 2026
Meteor at Wet’n Wild São Paulo is Brazil’s answer to the trap-door era of water slides: a 40-metre (131 ft) capsule slide that the park bills as the tallest capsule slide in the world. Riders are sealed into a launch capsule 13 storeys up; when…
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/ August 16, 2026
Toboganxote at Xplor Park: Height & Stats Toboganxote (also styled Toboganxotes) is the giant raft slide at Xplor Park in Mexico’s Riviera Maya, and one of the tallest water slides ever built in Latin America. Its structure stands 41 metres tall — about 134.5 feet…
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