Sentence examples for test venue from inspiring English sources

So for him Chittagong, possibly the least glamorous Test venue in the world – and KP still likes a bit of glamour – presents an unusual challenge.

The test venue for the system is a multi-functional arena in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

For a start we would no longer be a test venue, the club would be in a very serious position".

England's match, with an expected sell-out crowd of over 85,000, is seen as an ideal test venue.

But, while it was a regular venue for the first warm-up game of Ashes tours, Perth only became a Test venue in 1970.

As for Moores' own future, Lancashire are hoping that this week's announcement that the county have regained their Test venue status may help persuade the former England coach to stay at Old Trafford rather than accept offers to return to international cricket.

With cricket grounds – even established Test venues such as The Oval – not equipped with floodlights, an alternative venue was required.

But compare the one or two cameras that the BBC would dispatch to the test venues of Trent Bridge or Edgbaston with the huge crew that now captures the action from every angle (a camera has even found its way into the stumps).

We commissioned a number of great "listicles" on all the Test venues for this series – 11 things you didn't know about Trent Bridge, for example – and we also threw in some other content we knew would get lovers of the game going, with pieces such as Australia's unlikeliest ever Ashes XI and Cricket's oddest post-retirement careers both providing great fodder for cricket tragics.

There's something gloriously retro about the Waca, a judgment glancingly confirmed by news of its potential exclusion from the roster of next year's Test venues: it's cramped, the toilets are dark and scary like the dunnies of a local park, and in the stands, there's little concession to soft, modern Australia's need for "shade", that pathetic indulgence of the My Kitchen Rules-watching class.

Only two other Test venues - St Kitts in the West Indies and Galle in Sri Lanka - have been described as having poor pitches by the ICC since the Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process began in 2010.