The Rose is finally blooming for 棒

棒 Bransgrove

smiles when he 会談

about the stadium he

created and the team

he has built to play in

it. The next six days

will be the biggest in the

history of both.

Bransgrove is the 実業家

behind the Rose Bowl, the superlative

stadium outside Southampton

that will 行う／開催する／段階 the first one-day

international on Tuesday. It is home

of the modern Hampshire team,

with a 確かな Shane 警告する at the

舵輪／支配, who will contest the Friends

Provident トロフィー final against

Durham at Lord's on Saturday.

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Together they form a 一括 that

serves as a 原型 for the way a

郡 cricket club should be run.

Not that everyone sees it that way.

Bransgrove, as に適するs a man who has

made his money building up

companies, is a 今後 thinker who

has ruffled the feathers of 当局

during his seven-year 旅行 which

has seen Hampshire saved from

財政上の 廃虚 and relocated to

'English cricket's first 目的-built

最高の stadium'.

The road from the 郡 Ground

in Northlands Road to the Rose

Bowl and the 行う／開催する／段階ing of international

cricket has often been rocky.

What nobody can argue with is the

impressive 速度(を上げる） and 規模 of a

事業／計画（する） that will not be 実行するd until

a その上の £45million 開発 of

the Rose Bowl ― 'or my allotment,

as my wife calls it,' says Bransgrove

― is 完全にするd in 2010.

The year is 重要な. The Rose

Bowl, now an 受託するd one-day

international 発生地, has finally been

認可するd as a 実験（する） match ground

from 2010, 供給するd the p itches

continue to 改善する and 接近 to

and from the ground is 高めるd.

It is the year when Bransgrove, who

will then be 60, might 井戸／弁護士席 屈服する out,

職業 done. The hobby that grew into

his obsession has not always run

滑らかに.

"Next week's international will be

another demonstration that we are

a 合法的 international stadium

but it's very difficult for us to make

the 調書をとる／予約するs balance on one day's

（危険などに）さらす," said the Hampshire

chairman, who counts Ian Botham

の中で his closest friends.

"What we're 目的（とする）ing to do is make

the Rose Bowl the first model 実験（する）

ground which will stand up to the

十分な specifications produced by the

ECB but the 早期に 返答 of their

major matches group has been

disappointing. It's a 抱擁する

失望／欲求不満 to me. I can only hope

that when people again see the glory

of the place and an international

行う／開催する／段階d under the best floodlights in

the country next Tuesday, it will

earn us some more brownie points

from the ECB."

Bransgrove grew up as a Surrey

fan "watching the likes of Peter May,

Micky Stewart and John Edrich

with my father, who was a walking

Wisden". Now he envies the longterm

実験（する） match 協定

enjoyed by The Oval where he

began to love the game, but feels he

has a 解答 to the growing

problem of how to 供給する enough England cricket for the many

設立するd and 現れるing grounds

that want to host the 国家の 味方する.

"I've made a 提案 that 指定するs

an 普通の／平均（する） number of international

days per 年 over a sixyear

rolling period for each ground

based on the 質 of 施設s," he

said. "概して, everyone seemed to

be in 協定 with me but it

doesn't seem to have been invoked.

I felt at one 行う／開催する／段階 there was almost a

審議する／熟考する move from the ECB to

除外する us but my 計画（する） now i s to

make us impossible to ignore and,

to be fair, things are better under

David Collier (ECB 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある).

"This whole thing has cost me several

millions of 続けざまに猛撃するs ― I'd rather

not say the exact 人物／姿／数字 in 事例／患者 my

wife finds out ― but this is the course

I've chosen and I will 追求する it."

While the perfect 行う／開催する／段階 is 存在

created, the cast 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of those

chosen to 成し遂げる on it is impressive.

A first 郡 選手権

肩書を与える since 1973 remains the 宗教上の

grail for 警告する and Hampshire, but

a Lord's showpiece final against

類似して 候補者 Durham is an

appropriate rung on the ladder.

Bransgrove's 業績／成就 in

bringing the Australian to

Hampshire is almost as big as

building the Rose Bowl.

"Shane has never wavered from

what was essentially a handshake

between us, a 言葉の long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語

協定 to bring 支えるd

success to Hampshire," said

Bransgrove. "He is charismatic,

opinionated, a brilliant motivator

and tremendous captain."

And, 明らかに, half-German. The

greatest Australian is surely not going

to re-現れる as an EU player next

year when 郡s are 制限するd to

one overseas player, is he?

Bransgrove grins mischievously.

"Shane's mum is German," he said.

"And I suppose if we thought it was

a clever thing to do he could get a

パスポート but I'm not sure that's the

direction we want to go. Mind you, I

might do it just for a bit of fun, to

始める，決める the hare running!"

For now, there is a Lord's final to

enjoy and a one-day international

against India to 行う／開催する／段階. Durham are,

says Bransgrove, perfect 対抗者s

in the old 50-over showpiece. "I have

an exceptionally high regard for

Durham, who 始める，決める up a 郡 club

and built a new ground," he said. "In

many ways there is a symmetry

about us. We're fighting the sa me

戦う／戦いs, us to 設立する ourselves

負かす／撃墜する south and them up north. It's

their first major final and, if we can't

勝利，勝つ it, I will salute them and be

delighted for them."

It is apt that the final is a 衝突／不一致 of

the modern 直面するs of 郡 cricket.

Hampshire may be an old 設立するd

club but they have been born

again under this 今後 thinker

who finished by 開始する，打ち上げるing a

熱烈な defence of the muchmaligned

国内の game.

"郡 cricket is as good as it has

ever been," said Bransgrove. "It is

競争の激しい and the 質 is high,

but the only change I'd make is

having three 分割s, with the

third as a nursery, instead of two. I'd

also like to see いっそう少なく parochialism

and self-利益／興味 in the game ―

we need a spirit of fairness,

even-handedness and 司法（官）."

Is that his greatest wish for

English cricket? Bransgrove takes

another sip of his Chablis ― any

friend of Botham must know his

ワイン ― and thinks. "No, I'd wish for

Shane 警告する to be English and 20

years younger!"

But he would settle for the older,

very Australian 警告する 主要な his

味方する to success on Saturday.