da bet esporte： Eden Park will have a new cricket scoreboard for the England tourmatches nextsummer — and North Harbour may also have a second-hand bargain
Don Cameron18-Jul-2001Eden Park will have a new cricket scoreboard for the England tourmatches nextsummer — and North Harbour may also have a second-hand bargain.This week the big main scoreboard at Eden Park will be transportedacross theHarbour Bridge to the North Harbour Stadium, to make way for a newpublicinformation system on Eden Park No 1.The Eden Park Trust Board has given the old scoreboard to North Harbourfree ofcharge, but North Harbour will need $40-50,000 for transport andinstallation costs.At Eden Park, a new 70 square metre screen will be perched on top of theWest Stand(basically where the action-replay screen has been sited) with a smallernew screenbeing pitched at the eastern end of the ground, about the same site asthe old board.This may or may not be the end of the long and very expensive processto get theEden Park cricket scoreboard working to full satisfaction.The old framework scoreboard disappeared when the western terraces werebuilt and anew, large and manual board was installed at the northern end of theoriginal weststand.In 1985 this was changed to a new computerised scoreboard, largelyfinanced by thethen Auckland Savings Bank and the rumoured cost was $600,000.But then the problems started. The lettering on the new board was nottotally visible,or satisfactory.The face of the scoreboard was redesigned.Then there were problems with shadows, and the face of the board wasre-aligned.With the building of the new West Stand in 1992, the board was shiftedto the westernend of the ground.This was regarded as a better site, for the sunlight was more direct.But this alsocaused problems for when the sun was shining brightly it highlighted thetrim aroundthe numbers, which tended to make them hard to decipher.Warwick Lovell, the Eden Park manager, said the suppliers andcontractors had beenvery co-operative over the years in making improvements to the existingscoreboard.The new scoreboard was not likely to present the same problems, as itwill be ahigh-quality replay screen designed by Clipsal, and will give a veryclear picture.However, Eden Park spectators will not be supplied with all theinformation that theold traditional scoreboard offered, and which is still available atWestpacTrust Park inHamilton and the Basin Reserve in Wellington.Wayne Scurrah, the North Harbour Stadium chief executive, praised EdenPark for itsgenerosity in giving them the second-hand board.”There will still be a lot of work to do in having the new scoreboardinstalled,” saidScurrah, “and I am not too sure whether we should be saying too muchuntil all thedetails have been worked out.”These include the moving of the scoreboard to North Harbour, thebuilding of newfootings for the site at the Massey University end of the stadium, andhaving all theengineering and electrical work completed satisfactorily.If these details and resource consents are all completed without fussand delay Scurrahhoped the new board could be working in a month or two.Until now North Harbour have had only a very basic rugby scoreboard atthe Masseyend of the ground.”The old scoreboard was definitely not up to scratch,” said Scurrah.”The new one willbe a big improvement. When the North Harbour rugby team scores a centurywe willhave three numbers available to show that.”