Emirates Old Trafford / BDP

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Text description provided by the architects. Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground has hosted international test match cricket for over 150 years, but in 2008 it controversially lost the right to host the biggest event in cricket, The Ashes, for the first time in its history.  These events unfolded against the nationwide backdrop of an increasingly competitive provision of test match venues as other counties undertook their own redevelopment programmes.  Lancashire Country Cricket Club approached BDP to develop a masterplan for the cricket ground and beyond to the wider area to redevelop their own facilities, to allow them to compete in this context and also assist in unlocking the funding and political will to redevelop their famous ground and safeguard the future of international cricket in the North-West of England.