Winds of change sweep across Adelaide Oval

There’s a certain symbolism in how the City of Churches will lose its world-renowned cathedral views from Adelaide Oval when the old ground is redeveloped, writes Andrew Faulkner in the Australian.

St Peter's Cathedral - where the world's cricketing royalty bade farewell to Donald Bradman in 2001 - will be unseen from most of the ground when the oval becomes a multi-purpose stadium. Much more will be lost when the elegant old ground morphs into a 50,000 seat colosseum in order to welcome football back in four years.

Yes, the famous scoreboard, northern mounds and Moreton Bay Figs will stay - for now. But they too will most likely make way for more stands within 20 years.