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A ground by the river
Adelaide Oval lies in the Adelaide Park Lands, the green belt Colonel William Light laid out round the city in 1837. The ground was leased in 1872 from the Park Lands between North Adelaide and the River Torrens, and the first cricket match was played there on 13 December 1873.


A Test ground
Australia and England played the first Test match at the oval in December 1884. The scoreboard, designed by the architect F. Kenneth Milne and first used in 1911, is still operated by hand and was listed on the South Australian Heritage Register in 1986.
New stands and a roof to climb
Redevelopment began in April 2012, and the new Eastern Stand was finished for the 2014 football season. Today the oval is home to cricket and Australian rules football, and RoofClimb leads climbers across its roof to a lean-out point 50 metres above the ground.
