Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, one of the three places of Sri Lanka is being developed for the World Cup next year, is one of the organizers of land are more confident in terms of how they behave in the field of play and complete the construction soon enough. "We have no fear," said Suraj Dandeniya, director of the secretariat of the World Cup, "because we are playing games, we are playing South Africa, New Zealand, all parties, so that is 100% sure that the field game is completed. "
How to get to the stadium involves a half hour beautiful drive from the city of Kandy. You get to take two centuries old Kandy man-made lake is the centerpiece of the city, before moving along some streets winding Hill Country. Next on the trip is the magnificent bridge over the Mahaweli River, the largest in the country, followed by a stretch beyond the canopy of Sri Lanka International Buddhist Academy before becoming the luxurious look Kandy Industrial Park a few miles where the land is located.
No sign of the stadium, and after a short walk down a dusty trail (the security guard said the ground at the end of it), the first thing you notice is the hold-to-noise construction before they see metal scaffolding, the barebones of a three-story structure and a lot of men with hard hats. Move closer to the building, and there is a huge arch of mud on the left, perhaps suitable for a bike race dirt. This site will host World Cup matches, you wonder.
It is only when the stride toward the dirt track that the first familiar sight of a green garden cricket. There is a match between Sri Lanka and South Africa teams A, and Thilina Kandamby then hits the ball to the long, rolling smoothly along the gardens. Once you have taken the reassuring sight above the playing area and lush, the structure is largely completed in the cabin-end of the hall. There is still work to be done in the corporate boxes at the top level, and no sign of the grandstand roof yet, but the exposed bottom of the foot is more or less finished. You can not help noticing another dirt-bike third man to sweep extra cover on the right, to complement the one on the left, but start to believe this place can be ready for their big day within seven months.
Perhaps the biggest concern for a new stadium is on the way in which the pitch will behave. The preparation of a new turf field is a difficult art, but unlike the other two sites being developed for the SLC World Cup (the R Premadasa in Colombo and a new one near the city of Galle, south of cost ), which have not been adequately tested, the Squares in Pallekele parties have had since November 2009. A piece of domestic Twenty20 matches last season took place in February, has been a first class and List A game as well, and touring international teams, including New Zealand's Ross Taylor side, games are becoming regular. There has been no complaint behavior tone for these matches, leaving the organizers very sure about the place.
The stadium is the exclusive property Pallekele Cricket Sri Lanka and is ready to move Asgiriya Stadium, where evidence has been almost 25 years as headquarters of the election around Kandy. It is being built by state-State Engineering Corporation of Sri Lanka and is designed along the lines of the Supersport Park in Centurion. Like the stage of South Africa, Pallekele also have a capacity of 22,000 and mud covering the land monstrosities on both sides are expected to soon turned into a replica of the famous grass embankments Centurion.
Grass banks are part of a plan to ensure seeing in the cricket stadium, located in the middle of a ring of trees, offers a unique experience, unlike the concrete-sameness that ruins some of the places in the world largest cricket. The structure in three-storey building welcomes you to the entrance, organizers say, will be a press box distinctive and futuristic.
Built so close to Kandy, which as several posters of congratulations to remember, is the home town of Muttiah Muralitharan, Pallekele stadium could soon be renamed after more than Sri Lanka Cricket. Murali bid adieu and the picture so I could test and World appeared's final selection. Come March 10, when the game Pallekele hosts Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe league Kandyans expect to fill the place for a last chance to see their favorite son.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
