Sir Vivian Richards Stadium

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Ground information
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium


West Indies
Location	North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda
Establishment	2006
Seating capacity	10,000
International information
First Test	30 May - Jun 3 2008: West Indies v Australia
Last Test	30 May - Jun 3 2008: West Indies v Australia
First ODI	27 March 2007: West Indies v Australia
Last ODI	8 April 2007: Australia v England
As of 01 June 2008 Source: CricketArchive

Sir Vivian Richards Stadium is a multi-use, world class ultra-modern stadium in North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda. It was built for use in the 2007 Cricket World Cup where it hosted Super 8 matches. It holds 10,000 people normally, but temporary seating doubled its capacity for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007. Its construction was financed by China.

The stadium is strategically built on a site approximately 10-20 minutes drive from the capital city St. John's and the country's international airport (VC Bird International Airport). The venue cost an estimated US$60 million to build, with the majority of the funds comes from the Chinese Government grant.

Aerial View of Vivian Richards in early 2006.

The stadium constitutes two main stands, the North stand and the South stand as well as other minor stands which may be permanent or temporary. Other facilities include a practice pitch for the various cricket teams, a new beach(possibly a combination of unexploited coastal sand cove supported by artificial work) dubbed 'Beach 366'(the island has a total of 365 natural beaches some of which were damaged during several passages of severe hurricanes in 1995, 1998 and 2000), training infrastructure and a media centre. Also, the Sir Viv Richards stadium is one of the few state-of-the art versions that encompass underground passage ways for the cricket teams to move about.

St Albans School 1st XI were ther first overseas team to play at the new stadium in July 2007

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Venues of the 2007 Cricket World Cup West Indies

Warner Park (Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis) · Queen's Park Oval (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) · Beausejour Stadium (Gros Islet, Saint Lucia) · Sabina Park (Kingston, Jamaica) · Sir Vivian Richards Stadium (St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) · Providence Stadium (Georgetown, Guyana) · Queen's Park (St. George's, Grenada) · Kensington Oval (Bridgetown, Barbados)