Melbourne [Australia], Jan 18 ( ANI ): Cricket Australia (CA) on Friday announced that the spectators who attended Thursday night's Brisbane Heat-Sydney Thunder Big Bash League (BBL) clash, which was abandoned due to a power outage, will be given free entry to next week's Australia-Sri Lanka Test at the
Gabba.
Melbourne: A day after the BCCI poured cold water on their tradition of hosting a day/night Test at Adelaide, Cricket Australia on Tuesday confirmed playing Sri Lanka in a pink ball match at the
Gabba in Brisbane early next year.
But the tall 26-year-old will hope to generate a lot of bounce off the juicy
Gabba deck with his height, despite his limited preparations.
People talk about the
Gabba as if it is some mystical place where only Australians can play well.
Eventually I had to go back and record 'Dream'-our only 'studio song,''
Gabba added.
Minerco said that the combination of Kids 50 Yo
Gabba Gabba!
scheduled to play the first Test at the
Gabba until the Phil Hughes tragedy forced a rethink.
England coach Ashley Giles is also determined to PICK the players up ahead of tomorrow's match, but feels there are many things the team can be proud of in their performance at the
Gabba.
England will have to create Ashes history to win the
Gabba Test with their previous highest winning fourth innings score at 332 for seven in Melbourne in 1928.The world record for the highest successful run chase is the West Indies 418 for seven against Australia in Antigua in 2003, while the highest winning chase at the
Gabba is Australia's 236 for seven against the West Indies in 1951.
Opener Chris Rogers was the first victim of the bounce Broad managed to generate from the
Gabba track but it was the dismissals of Shane Watson, Michael Clarke and David Warner around lunch that shifted the momentum firmly England's way.