Cricket news is getting ready for Manchester’s ‘other Old Trafford’ fourth India vs England Test
Timesofindia.com in manchester: These days there is no need to ask direction -guidelines for many navigation apps, but I love traditionalist personal touch in me, a person’s adventure to follow a unique way of pulling a map in a unique way. Thanks to the signage, and then floodlights, it is difficult to ignore the Old Trafford Cricket Ground, but many questions, all, who play ignorant, you get closer to the “ground” reality in the city.All hands point to the football stadium in Straitford and when you reach there, and do uncontrolled work again, the security guard closed it. “Oh, you wanted to go to another Old Trafford?”, Chakle Phil, who is a security guard at the Old Trafford Football Ground. It is a working day and for adults is only a handful of stadium tour at a price of GBP 28 (about Rs 3,200). Phil, in its seventeenth year, is a good walk and enjoying the wind.
A plaque outside the Old Trafford Football Stadium recalls those who were killed in the Munich air disaster. (Timesofindia.com)
The official merchandise store has some activity, but it is a discounted outlet, located near the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand, which attracts most visitors. When you come back from a small tour while checking jersey, cap, socks and other collectable items, Phil is still there. “Is there any cricket happening here?” He asks. When informed of the ongoing test series, he shares a very indifferent look and claims, “When the roads are blocked, we know that cricket is happening. I don’t think the two old traffic have matched in a single day. It will not be sure that it will be a nightmare.
Running with the football season yet, Trafford Pub in Manchester wore a deserted look. (Timesofindia.com)
On Wednesday afternoon, on lazy, the floodlights of cricket facility are easily seen to connect the football stadium to the main road. The road connecting the two is very red on the walls, a huge poster for “pride of Europe” and even a pub named “Trafford”.
In the next 10-utmost days, the focus will be on the Old Trafford Cricket Ground as England hosted India in the fourth Test of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. (Timesofindia.com)
The “other Old Trafford” currently looks at a deserted, but most of the roads will lead it when tested on July 23. Both India and England are yet to come here, but are running at the venue to host their biggest game of the preparation season. The fourth test will be its moment below the Sun and for a change, all hands and navigation alerts will be pointed towards the Telbot Road direction, not StraTford.
