Cricket pavilion at Headley Heath - geograph

A cricket pavilion is a

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at a

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. It is the main building within which the players usually change in

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s and which is the main location for watching the

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match for members and others. Pavilions can vary from modest and purely practical buildings at small venues to large and imposing edifices at some of the historic grounds where

Test cricket Test cricket is a Forms of cricket, format of the sport of cricket, considered the game’s most prestigious and traditional form. Often referred to as the "ultimate test" of a cricketer's skill, endurance, and temperament, it is a format of i ...

is played.

Historic pavilions

The pavilions at

Lord's Cricket Ground Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket List of Test cricket grounds, venue in St John's Wood, Westminster. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex C ...

and

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are typical of the Victorian architectural style often seen at most famous English grounds. The cricket pavilion in the

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was designed by the leading Victorian architect Sir

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. Other famous historical pavilions are

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and the Members Pavilion at the

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. Entry is only enabled for members. Their seats are reserved by a member or player. A non-member is not entitled to enter the Members Pavilion. Image:Lord's Pavilion.jpg, The pavilion at

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Image:The Oval Pavilion.jpg, The Victorian pavilion at

, London Image:Old Trafford Pavilion.JPG, The pavilion at

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Image:SCG members.jpg, The historic Members Pavilion at the

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Image:Trent Bridge Pavilion End.jpg, The pavilion (right of centre) at

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Image:Bombay-Gymnkhana.jpg,

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pavilion,

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Image:Germantown Clubhouse.gif, Germantown Cricket Club pavilion,

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, United States Image:JunctionOval2.JPG, Junction Oval pavilion,

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Modern pavilions

Amongst the most distinctive of modern pavilions is that named after Sir Garfield Sobers at the

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. Other modern pavilions are those at the Rose Bowl in England and the

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in India. Image:Garfield Sobers Pavilion.jpg, The Sir Garfield Sobers pavilion at

Image:Smaller Providence Stadium inside.jpg, Providence Stadium pavilion,

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Image:Rosebowl.png, The Rose Bowl pavilion,

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Image:Riverside-ground.jpg, Riverside Ground,

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Image:CBRegionalPark.jpg,

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pavilion, Lauderhill, Florida Image:Brabourne.jpg,

pavilion,

Image:Edgbaston Pavilion.jpg, Edgbaston Cricket Ground pavilion,

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Alternatives

Dugouts or benches are generally used instead of pavilions in

Twenty20 Twenty20 (abbreviated T20) is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two t ...

cricket. The dugout or bench is located just off the field of play, allowing players to enter and exit the field of play more quickly in comparison to a pavilion, therefore maintaining the faster pace of that form of the game (a batsman must be on the field within 90 seconds, rather than within the three minutes allowed in other forms of cricket, for not be given out, timed out) .

References

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Pavilions In architecture, ''pavilion'' has several meanings; * It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often it is associated with pleasure. In palaces and traditional mansions of Asia ...