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Sydney Cricket Ground Trust

Former agency of the New South Wales Government

Field	Value
name	Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust
merged	Venues NSW
formation
dissolved
type	Government agency
location	The Sheridan Building, Driver Avenue, , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
coords
services
leader_title	Chairman
leader_name	Tony Shepherd
leader_title2	Deputy Chairman
leader_name2	Rod McGeoch
leader_title3	Chief Executive Officer
leader_name3	Kerrie Mather
board_of_directors
parent_organization	Government of New South Wales
affiliations
website

The Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust (popularly known as the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust or SCG Trust) was an agency of the Government of New South Wales that operated the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was merged into Venues NSW on 1 December 2020.

The SCG Trust operated the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) and Sydney Football Stadium (SFS), and former Sydney Sports Ground and SCG No.2 at Rugby League Tables at Moore Park in Sydney. In mid-2008, its head office The Sheridan Building opened, making it the third building to be built in the Gold Members Car Park, alongside the headquarters of Sydney City Roosters and New South Wales Rugby Union. These buildings were demolished during the 2018 redevelopment of the SFS. The headquarters of the National Rugby League and Rugby Australia remain adjacent to the 2022-opened Allianz Stadium.

In 2007 the UTS-Balmain club formed a partnership with the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust and are now known as Sydney CC or Sydney Cricket Club or just simply Sydney Tigers.

Sculptures

Under former Chairman Rodney Cavalier, the Trust commissioned bronze sculptures to be placed around the grounds of the SCG and SFS. The sculptures were funded by Australian philanthropist Basil Sellers and the collection is known as the Basil Sellers SCG Sculpture Project.

Date	Honouree	Sport, location	Notes
January 2008	Richie Benaud	Cricket, bowler
30 March 2008	Dally Messenger	Rugby League, located outside of the SFS
5 January 2009	Fred Spofforth	Cricket, fast bowler
6 June 2009	Trevor Allan	Rugby union and rugby league footballer
29 August 2009	Paul Roos	Australian rules football
7 December 2009	Stephen Yabba Gascoign	Famous spectator	Located inside the grounds, taking over two seats on the concourse in front of the new Victor Trumper stand.
5 January 2010	Stan McCabe	Cricket, batsman
9 August 2010	Reg Gasnier	Rugby league and rugby union	Part of the Basil Sellers Sports Sculpture project.
	Ken Catchpole	Rugby union	Relocated in 2017 to outside the Rugby Australia House
	Paul Kelly	Australian rules football
	Steve Waugh	Cricket, batsman
2016	Johnny Warren	Football
3 January 2018	Betty Cuthbert and Marlene Mathews	Athletics	The first female athletes to be honoured.

Media Hall of Honour

In 2014 the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust opened the Media Hall of Honour at the MA Noble Stand's media centre with fifteen inaugural inductees:

Richie Benaud
Ernet Black
Ernie Christensen
John Davis
Jack Fingleton
Ian Heads
Frank Hyde
Norman May
Alan McGilvray
Johnnie Moyes
John O'Gready
Bill O'Reilly
Ray Robinson
Jim Shepherd
Ray Warren

References

"New Venues Entity Created {{!}} Venues NSW".
(30 August 2021). "Annual Report 2021". Venues NSW.
["Sydney Football Stadium Redevelopment"](Sydney Football Stadium).
Neville Carnegie. "History of the Tigers Cricket Club". Sydney Cricket Club.
(4 January 2008). "Bronzed Benaud stands tall at SCG". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
(30 March 2008). "Statue honours Dally Messenger". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
(5 January 2009). "Spofforth statue unveiled at SCG". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
(6 June 2009). "Trevor Allan immortalised in bronze". Sydney Cricket Ground Trust.
(29 August 2009). "Paul Roos honoured with AFL sculpture". Sydney Cricket Ground Trust.
Roebuck, Peter. (8 December 2009). "Yabba back on the Hill". [[The Age]].
(5 January 2010). "SCG statue immortalises McCabe". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Ritchie, Dean. (9 August 2010). "Reg Gasnier immortalised in bronze". [[News Corp Australia.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbQJ5BEzgO8 Johnny Warren Sculpture - Unveiling the Legend]
"Bronze sculptures of Australia's olympic athletes Betty Cuthbert and Marlene Mathews Photos and Images | european pressphoto agency". Epa.eu.
"Cuthbert and Mathews our first ladies in bronze - Precinct". Scgt.nsw.gov.au.
"SCG Trust unveils inaugural inductees in Media Hall of Honour". Sydney Cricket & Sports Ground Trust.
(26 August 2014). "SCG include Richie Benaud and Ray Warren in their 15 inaugural members of the Media Hall of Honour". News Limited.

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