In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

A NSW player outmarks a West Australian opponent in the goal square at the 1933 Sydney Carnival | 1933 Australian Football Carnival at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Sydney was named as a tribute to one of Lara's favourite grounds, the Sydney Cricket Ground, where Lara scored his first Test century-the highly acclaimed 277 in the 1992 – 93 season.

Australia holds the first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the start to the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

A large crowd of over 10, 000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup Hat-trick # Cricket | hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney.

The series took some liberties with historical accuracy for the sake of drama, including a depiction of angry Australian fans burning a British flag at the Sydney Cricket Ground, an event which was never documented.

It was where the famous Bay 13 was located, the MCG ’ s equivalent to The Hill at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London.

Some matches were also played at Sydney Cricket Ground.

His father Louis, a third generation Australian of French Huguenot descent, was a leg spinner who played for Penrith in Sydney Grade Cricket, in 1922-23 gaining attention for taking all twenty wickets in a match against St. Marys for 65 runs.

As a specialist batsman, he made his first class debut for New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground against Queensland in the New Year's match of the 1948-49 season.

He suffered a smashed gum and a severely cut top lip when a square cut by John Waite in the Second Test against South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground hit him in the face while he was fielding at short gully.

The Swans play most home games at the Sydney Cricket Ground, while local derbies and larger games against teams such as are played at ANZ Stadium.

Chaos descended on English cricket in the Australian summer of 1887 / 8, as Lillywhite, Shaw and Shrewsbury organised their customary tour, at the invitation of the Melbourne Cricket Club, while a rival tour, that of the future Lord Hawke, was invited by their Sydney counterparts.

** The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13 – 12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24, 450 spectators.

* February 26 – At the Sydney Cricket Ground, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings.

His family then moved to the north shore of Sydney, where he joined Northern District in Sydney Grade Cricket.

After losing the Fourth Test by 12 runs after a dramatic final day collapse, Taylor headed to his home ground, the Sydney Cricket Ground, for what would be his final Test.

Taylor is patron of the Mark Taylor Shield Cricket competition run for NSW Catholic Primary schools in and around the Sydney region.

During the season, Bradman's father took him to the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) to watch the fifth Ashes Test match.

He withdrew from the First Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground amid rumours that he had suffered a nervous breakdown.

Bradman inaugurated a " Bradman Stand " at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 1974 ; the Adelaide Oval also opened a Bradman Stand in 1990.

Immediately prior to that came one of its most notable performances, during the Australian leg in March 2003 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

In 1879, Barton umpired a cricket game at Sydney Cricket Ground between New South Wales and an English touring side captained by Lord Harris.

Waugh then took 3 / 49 in the final round robin match against Queensland, before the teams met again for the Sheffield Shielf final at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

He was named Australian of the Year in 2004 for his philanthropic work, and inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in front of his home fans at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 2010.

It looked as though Gielgud would retire from the stage after appearing in Half Life at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1978, but he made a successful comeback in 1988 in Hugh Whitemore's play The Best of Friends as museum curator Sydney Cockerell.

Cockerell was born in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, having previously been the secretary of William Morris.

* Sydney J. Freedberg-art historian, curator

( Ned would additionally become a curator of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables was chosen by curator Robert Herbert as one of a number of films to support an exhibition of French drawings held in 2010 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

He accepted a post as curator at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, but moved back to Sydney after one year in the position.

The 16th Biennale of Sydney, Revolutions – Forms That Turn, took place from 18 June – 7 September 2008 with leading international curator and writer Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev as Artistic Director.

** Ned O ' Hanlon, Rocky Oldham ( video producers ), David Mallet ( video director ) & U2 for Zoo TV: Live from Sydney

She worked with such notables as Ivan Reitman, Neil Simon, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, John Candy, John Larroquette, Dom DeLuise, Roger Moore, Bill Murray, Jane Fonda, Dean Martin, Carl Reiner, David Carradine, Sammy Davis, Jr., Steve Guttenberg, Howard W. Koch, Albert S. Ruddy, Hal Needham, and Thomas R. Bond II to name a few.

" Arvin Clone " ( real name Ned Bolger ) is blamed for Irina's death by setting her up to appear as if she had contracted an assassin to kill Sydney.

* Ned Beatty as Sydney Morehouse

Over the decades, Sydney Olympic has attracted and developed a large number of talented footballers resulting in international attention to the Club and to Australian Football through transfers such as Brett Emerton ($ 1. 3M ), Jason Polak ($ 0. 7M ) Ned Zelic ($ 0. 65M ), Nick Carle and Jason Čulina.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

* 1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westwards from Sydney.

In 1813 Wentworth, along with Gregory Blaxland and William Lawson, led the expedition which found a route across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and opened up the grazing lands of inland New South Wales.

They are usually expensive schools that tend to be up-market and traditional in style, some Catholic schools fall into this category as well, e. g. St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Saint Ignatius ' College, Riverview, St Aloysius ' College ( Sydney ) and St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, as well as Loreto Kirribilli, Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College, St Ursula's College and Loreto Normanhurst for girls.

In 1813 Lawson, with Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, led an expedition westwards from Sydney to cross the Blue Mountains.

Its existence was first suggested in 1905 by the British physiologist John Sydney Edkins, and gastrins were isolated in 1964 by Roderic Alfred Gregory and Tracy at the University of Liverpool.

In 1813, acting on the instructions of NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth travelled west from Emu Plains, on the Nepean River opposite Penrith, and by staying to the ridges were able to confirm the existence of a passable route directly west from Sydney across the Blue Mountains.

Throughout his career, Meisner worked with, and taught, students who became well known, such as Sandra Bullock, Dylan McDermott, Eileen Fulton, James Caan, Steve McQueen, Robert Duvall, Gregory Peck, Jack Lord, Bob Fosse, Diane Keaton, Peter Falk, Jon Voight, Jeff Goldblum, Grace Kelly, James Doohan, Jason Boss, Manu Tupou, Tony Randall and Sydney Pollack.

Sanford Meisner, Robert Duvall, Gregory Peck, Sydney Pollack.

In the first innings of the First Test at Sydney, Australia had scored a massive 586 ( Syd Gregory 201, George Giffen 161 ) and then dismissed England for 325.

It took place in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, at the Association Ground, Moore Park, now known as the Sydney Cricket Ground, during a match between a touring English team captained by Lord Harris and New South Wales, led by Dave Gregory, who was also the captain of Australia.

Gregory was also the captain of the New South Wales team, notably during the Sydney Riot of 1879 when he rebelled against an unpopular decision by Victorian umpire George Coulthard during a game against the touring English team.

David William Gregory was born on 15 April 1845 at Fairy Meadow, near Wollongong, the son of Edward William Gregory, a bootmaker, and his wife Mary Anne née Smith, who were married on 25 May 1835 at Sydney.

Sydney Browne, Gregory Colucci, Martin Davidson, David Dow, Robert Graham, Helen Kabriel, Michael Leckman, Matthew Lella, Jarle Lovlin, Gary McCluskie, Birgit Siber, Matthew Smith, Jon Soules, Mike Szabo and Michael Treacy.

Sydney Edward Gregory ( 14 April 1870 — 1 August 1929 ), sometimes known as Edward Sydney Gregory, was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia.

Gregory was born at Moore Park, New South Wales, not far from the present site of the Sydney Cricket Ground, attending Sydney Boys High School.

Syd Gregory died on 1 August 1929 at Randwick, an eastern suburb of Sydney.

* YouTube video of " I Am So Proud " from the 1939 film, with Green as Ko-Ko, Sydney Granville as Pooh-Bah and Gregory Stroud as Pish-Tush