Sydney Cricket Ground Trust

The Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust (popularly known as the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust or SCG Trust) was an agency of the Government of New South Wales that operated the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was merged into Venues NSW on 1 December 2020.^[1][2]

Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust

Merged into	Venues NSW
Dissolved	1 December 2020; 3 years ago (2020-12-01)
Type	Government agency
Location	The Sheridan Building, Driver Avenue, Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°53′S 151°13′E
Services	Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney Football Stadium
Chairman	Tony Shepherd
Deputy Chairman	Rod McGeoch
Chief Executive Officer	Kerrie Mather
Board of directors	Stephanie Brantz Michael Crismale David Gilbert Nihal Gupta John Hartigan Peter Ivany Alan Jones Kerrie Mather Maurice Newman Barry O'Farrell Katie Page Phil Waugh
Parent organization	Government of New South Wales
Affiliations	Sydney City Roosters New South Wales Rugby Union Sydney Swans Sydney FC Sydney Cricket Club
Website	www.sydneycricketground.com.au

The SCG Trust operated the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) and Sydney Football Stadium (SFS) at Moore Park in Sydney. In mid-2008, its head office The Sheridan Building opened, making it the third building to erect in the Gold Members Car Park, alongside the headquarters of Sydney City Roosters and New South Wales Rugby Union. Soon after it opened, Sydney Swans and Sydney FC relocated their headquarters inside the Sheridan Building. There are four clubs from four sports codes with their headquarters at the ground.

In 2007 the UTS-Balmain club formed a partnership with the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust and are now known as Sydney CC or Sydney Cricket Club or just simply Sydney Tigers.^[3]

Statues

The Trust has commissioned ten bronze sculpture statues to be placed around the grounds of the SCG and SFS.

Order	Date	Honouree	Sport, location	Notes
1	January 2008	Richie Benaud	Cricket, bowler	[4]
2	30 March 2008	Dally Messenger	Rugby League, located outside of the SFS	[5]
3	5 January 2009	Fred Spofforth	Cricket, fast bowler	[6]
4	6 June 2009	Trevor Allan	Rugby union and rugby league footballer	[7]
5	29 August 2009	Paul Roos	Australian rules football	[8]
6	7 December 2009	Stephen Yabba Gascoign	Famous spectator	Located inside the grounds, taking over two seats on the concourse in front of the new Victor Trumper stand.[9]
7	5 January 2010	Stan McCabe	Cricket, batsman	[10]
8	9 August 2010	Reg Gasnier	Rugby league and rugby union	Part of the Basil Sellers Sports Sculpture project.[11]
		Ken Catchpole	Rugby union	Relocated in 2017 to outside the Rugby Australia House
		Paul Kelly	Australian rules football
		Steve Waugh	Cricket, batsman
12	2016	Johnny Warren	Football	[12]
13	3 January 2018	Betty Cuthbert and Marlene Mathews	Athletics	The first female athletes to be honoured.[13][14]

Media Hall of Honour

In 2014 the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust opened the Media Hall of Honour at the MA Noble Stand's media centre with fifteen inaugural inductees:^[15][16]

Richie Benaud Ernet Black Ernie Christensen John Davis Jack Fingleton

Ian Heads Frank Hyde Norman May Alan McGilvray Johnnie Moyes

John O'Gready Bill O'Reilly Ray Robinson Jim Shepherd Ray Warren

See also

• Cricket portal
• Sports portal

• Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust

References

1. "New Venues Entity Created | Venues NSW". www.venuesnsw.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
2. "Annual Report 2021" (PDF). OpenGov NSW. Venues NSW. 30 August 2021. p. 40. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 November 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
3. Neville Carnegie. "History of the Tigers Cricket Club". Sydney Cricket Club. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
4. "Bronzed Benaud stands tall at SCG". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 4 January 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
5. "Statue honours Dally Messenger". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 30 March 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
6. "Spofforth statue unveiled at SCG". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 January 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
7. "Trevor Allan immortalised in bronze". Sydney Cricket Ground Trust. 6 June 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
8. "Paul Roos honoured with AFL sculpture". Sydney Cricket Ground Trust. 29 August 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
9. Roebuck, Peter (8 December 2009). "Yabba back on the Hill". The Age. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
10. "SCG statue immortalises McCabe". ABC Sport. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 January 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
11. Ritchie, Dean (9 August 2010). "Reg Gasnier immortalised in bronze". The Daily Telegraph. Australia: News Limited. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
12. Johnny Warren Sculpture - Unveiling the Legend
13. "Bronze sculptures of Australia's olympic athletes Betty Cuthbert and Marlene Mathews Photos and Images | european pressphoto agency". Epa.eu. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
14. "Cuthbert and Mathews our first ladies in bronze - Precinct". Scgt.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
15. "SCG Trust unveils inaugural inductees in Media Hall of Honour". Sydney Cricket & Sports Ground Trust. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
16. Conn, Malcolm (26 August 2014). "SCG include Richie Benaud and Ray Warren in their 15 inaugural members of the Media Hall of Honour". The Daily Telegraph. News Limited. Retrieved 15 September 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Business Events Sydney - Responsible for promoting the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust & its properties as world class events destinations.