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The Gabba
Test-cricket fortress with a fast, bouncing pitch shaped by one family curator dynasty for decades.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Gabba in Brisbane follows the father-and-son groundsmen, Kevin Mitchell senior and junior, whose curating turned the pitch into a home-ground fortress for Australian cricket. You will hear about the mayor who once sacked a curator and rolled the wicket himself, and the sly trick Mitchell senior once played on a visiting English captain. It traces decades of dominance built pitch by pitch, and the family obsession behind it. Best heard while looking out over the square where that pitch still sits.
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