sentences:  The TCA Ground's golden era was from 1979, when a near record crowd of 10,882 for a sporting match turned up on 4 January 1979 to see Tasmania win its first domestic cricket trophy, the then Gillette Cup, until 1985 when 6,500 turned up to watch the mighty West Indies defeat Sri Lanka in the grounds only One-Day International.The ground record is 11,002 in a Tasmania v Australian XI match in 1948.By 1999 the ground had fallen into a terrible state of disrepair, and a National Trust restoration plan was unveiled.