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ICC inspects Motera stadium in Ahmedabad for World Cup 2011 | A nine-member team of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday visited the Sardar Patel stadium in Motera, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad to inspect the
venue where three 2011 World Cup matches are to be played. The ICC team inspected
the pitch and overall condition of the stadium after undertaking a similar assessment
tour of Bangladesh that is jointly hosting the cricket World Cup with India and
Sri Lanka. "Really lucky to meet people that would be involved running cricket
World Cup 2011, to start to discuss plans for the event and to see for ourselves
the facilities that would be in place and to discuss how we may best use those.
As I said, this is the first trip and there will be further inspections. We will
have further dialogue in the time to come. So this is really very much the initial
planning stage," said Chris Tetley, ICC event manager. The team made a round of
the stadium and later met Gujarat state police officials and discussed security
arrangements. The Motera Stadium boasts of world class playing and practice facilities
and has a crowd capacity of more than fifty thousand. "I'll comment as a player's
perspective and that's confined in the planning area and the facilities you have
got in here, which is wonderful. They are terrific from our perspective, there
are couple of things that need tailoring, but there aren't great dramas here at
all and we are very impressed by the standard, outfield, wickets, and practice
facilities etc," said Tim May, Chief Executive Officer of Federation of ICC. The
team heads to inspect the cricket grounds in New Delhi and Mumbai later. Sri Lanka
will be on the third stage of their inspection after finishing their rounds from
India. Mumbai will stage the final match of the 2011 one-day World Cup. The local
organising committee last month finalised venues for India's 29 matches, the Board
of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a statement. A total of 49 matches
will be played in the three countries during the event. Mohali will stage a semi-final
and Ahmedabad a quarter-final. Those two venues and Mumbai will also stage two
other games. New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Nagpur and Kolkata will stage four
matches apiece, including one involving India. |
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