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Carrara Oval

Carrara, Queensland

Ground profile

Unused since 1992 (for cricket)
Capacity 15,500
Floodlights Yes
Home team(s) Queensland
Other sports AFL
Current local time 23:50, Mon Sep 08, 2008 (UTC +1000)

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Carrara became the first ground outside Brisbane to host a first-class game when it staged the match between the state and an England XI in 1990-91 (the match famous for David Gower and John Morris's Tiger Moth fly-by).

Located three miles from the Pacific Ocean, it a restful environment with an outfield the same size as the MCG with floodlight as powerful as on any other cricket ground. But there was no escaping that it was primarily a football venue, and that, allied to poor attendance for the England match and two other one-dayer played there, meant that the experiment to try to use it for cricket was dropped in 1992.
Martin Williamson

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