The Madras University Union ground only hosts lower division league cricket these days. It wasn't always so - luminaries like Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Subramaniam Badrinath and (no, really) Noel David have played here in the past.
When they played, they'd have seen their runs and wickets recorded on this scoreboard, this joyous contraption that requires the scorer to clamber up a ladder.
Now, the scoreboard's skeleton stands unused, hidden from view of the players by a newly constructed - and usually empty - spectator gallery. The scoreboard they now use is smaller, less cumbersome, and far less charming.
