Brisbane Cricket Ground, commonly known as the Gabba, Brisbane, is going to break. Yes, this historic cricket stadium will be demolished. This is the same stadium where in 2021, Rishabh Pant played a memorable and match -winning innings in the Test against Australia. After this victory, the word “Broken Gaba Ka prose” by former bowler Vivek Razdan had settled in the hearts of all Indian fans. But why is the Gaba Stadium being broken? Let us tell you.

The Gaba Stadium has faced challenges in the last few years due to its old infrastructure and limited capacity. This stadium will be broken after 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Government of Queensland has announced that after demolishing the Gaba Stadium, a 63 thousand seats will be built in Victoria Park. This decision is a big decision in the Australian sports world.

A new stadium to be built at a cost of 3.8 billion Australian dollars

This stadium has been historic. Along with many cricket matches, Australian Football League (AFL) matches have also been played here. But the government has decided that the facility will be done well here, which is not now. This stadium will be prepared newly prepared, which will be done with the cricket match keeping in mind the matches of international games and AFL. The cost of creating this stadium will be around 3.8 billion Australian dollars.

Cricket Australia and Queensland Cricket have supported this decision of the government. Earlier it was planned to rebuild the Gaba Stadium but was canceled due to rising costs. It has now been decided that a new modern stadium would be built by destroying it completely.

About Gaba Cricket Stadium

This stadium was built in 1895. There is currently 37,000 spectators’ seating arrangements. Here the area of ​​the game is 170.6 m long and 149.9 wide. Gaba has 2 ends, Stanley Street End and Vulture Street End. Many other sports including Australian football, rugby are also played here.

In 2021, Team India broke Gaba’s pride

Gaba Cricket Stadium is considered to be the stronghold of the Australia cricket team. Australia had not lost any Test at this stadium since 1988, the record which was broken by the Indian team in January 2021. This was also India’s first Test victory on this ground. Rishabh Pant scored an unbeaten innings of 89 runs in the second innings, for which he was also chosen as the Player of the Match. Before him, Shubman Gill (91) and Cheteshwar Pujara also batted brilliantly in this innings. India won this historic match under the captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane.