The business case for the stadium is in tatters after Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket Tasmania (CT) confirmed this week cricket will not be played at the stadium under the proposed roof.
“The proposed roof structure casts a grid-like pattern of shadows that moves across the field of play, particularly on the cricket pitch block, throughout the day, presenting an unacceptable playing, operational and broadcast environment for all forms of cricket,” CA and CT say in their submission to the Tasmanian Planning Commission (TPC).
The Macquarie Point Development Corporation had budgeted in its business case for revenue from one Test match and eight BBL games every year (Macquarie Point Multipurpose Stadium).
Bellerive Oval will remain the home of cricket.
Minster for all things stadium Eric Abetz needs to tell Tasmanians will the stadium have the roof the AFL wants? And if so, what does that mean for the stadium’s business case -what does it mean for cricket in Tassie?
Or is the government renegotiating the “non-negotiable” AFL deal and at the eleventh-hour designing roofs on the run?
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