Beach Stand at the SCG

Sydney cricket ground takes on a new appearance this year for the New Year’s Test. Firstly, the historic Bradman and Noble stands have been knocked down for renovation allowing spectator to stare through a gaping hole towards the Sydney Football Stadium.  Secondly, the most prolific run scorer at the SCG, Ricky Ponting will not bat again at the ground and offcourse Tony Grieg will never make an appearance on his home turf ever again.
But to overcome the past, ACB and the SCG have a launched a new innovation, Coca Cola Beach stand.  

The SCG has transformed seats in Bay 10 into a beach.  There have been new bucket seats placed into the area and the section has been converted into beach by pouring sand.

Australian cricketers, Shane Watson, David Warner and Mike Hussey were the first ones to comfort themselves in the beach stand earlier this morning.  The players were greeted in the stand by life savers, few beach models and couple of bottles of coke.

Warner seemed to love the idea and joked “Might ask pup [Clarke] if I can stand in front of the stand all day. If the sun comes out then I will be tempted to jump the fence and sit on the other side. It is great idea by CA”

 Shane Watson who is not playing in the test loved the idea but was not sure if he would be sitting in one of the seats during the test match. “Great innovation and they should have it across all grounds in Australia. In the West Indies they have swimming pools so this will be our way of enjoying cricket”.

Although the beach stand is only small section of the Bay 10, it still took a bit of time to assemble. One of the SCG spokesman said “We had to remove the seats, cover the concrete with a large sheets of plastic and then pour in plenty of sand”.

The SCG might be reforming the history for now but it is also providing us a glimpse of the future.