The Oval - Adelaide

Capacity: 35,000

If Sydney is the best equipped cricket ground and Melbourne is the largest, Adelaide qualifies as one of the most beautiful in the world and is certainly without rival in Australia.

Like Melbourne it is set in parkland but the background is much more imposing - with the cathedral and Botanical Gardens close by.

Cricket grounds in Australia are known as ovals but only Adelaide is designated as such by authority.

Undoubtedly it's a batsman's pitch with names such as Compton, Morris, Hazare and Kanhai each achieving two hundreds in the same Test match at the ground.

Bradman made his first-class hundred there in 1927, so it was perhaps appropriate that he should have ultimately chosen to settle there.

One criticism of The Oval must be that ideally it is too elongated for cricket.

The two straight boundaries are unreasonably long and those square to the wicket unusually short.

As such it is rare to see a straight six in Adelaide, though the ground frequently offers high totals.