Good Old Trafford
Even the most one-eyed Lancastrian cannot claim that Old Trafford, the ground immortalised by the prose of Neville Cardus and the deeds of Cyril Washbrook, Brian Statham and Jim Laker, is the most picturesque of grounds, writes Michael Atherton
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
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Even the most one-eyed Lancastrian cannot claim that Old Trafford, the ground immortalised by the prose of Neville Cardus and the deeds of Cyril Washbrook, Brian Statham and Jim Laker, is the most picturesque of grounds, writes Michael Atherton in The Telegraph.. Yet, there are reasons to love this strange ground.
The club now finds itself in the invidious position of having to rent back office space it sold in the 1960s; a two-tier stand built in the 1990s has been rarely utilised fully, and only Lancashire could name one of its ends after its greatest bowler who always bowled from the opposite end.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo