Guwahati: The Assam Cricket Association (ACA) is going the extra mile to ensure that there is no outage when India will play Sri Lanka at its grounds here next week, officials said.
The ACA stadium will host the first ODI of a three-match series between the two countries on January 10, the officials said.
The association has enlisted the help of an NGO to ensure that there is no presence of snake in the field like in the T20 match between India and South Africa last October, which was halted by a partial power outage.
Speaking about the steps taken by the ACA to prevent any problem with lights, its president Taranga Gogoi said, “There was some technical problem with one of the floodlights tower in the India-SA match. We have already initiated the work to use LED bulbs for all the floodlights.
But as installing new bulbs will take about a month and there is not enough time, the existing floodlights will be used for the January 10 match. All the wiring and other technical aspects of the floodlight towers as well as entire the stadium are being thoroughly checked to ensure no repeat of the glitch witnessed during the India-SA match, he said.
The stadium had plunged into partial darkness during the second innings of the India-SA match on October 2 last year when one of the four floodlight towers went off halting play for 18 minutes.
Asked if steps have been been taken to ensure that snakes do not create problems for those present in the field, Gogoi said the help of an NGO has been sought. It has sprayed chemicals and has taken other measures to ensure that there is no recurrence. “Not just the field, we are taking these steps to control the presence of reptiles across the stadium, including in the stands,” he added.
A snake had come out of a small pit in the field while the home team was batting in the first half of the T20 match stopping play for about five minutes till the groundsmen captured it. PTI
The ACA stadium will host the first ODI of a three-match series between the two countries on January 10, the officials said.
The association has enlisted the help of an NGO to ensure that there is no presence of snake in the field like in the T20 match between India and South Africa last October, which was halted by a partial power outage.
Speaking about the steps taken by the ACA to prevent any problem with lights, its president Taranga Gogoi said, “There was some technical problem with one of the floodlights tower in the India-SA match. We have already initiated the work to use LED bulbs for all the floodlights.
But as installing new bulbs will take about a month and there is not enough time, the existing floodlights will be used for the January 10 match. All the wiring and other technical aspects of the floodlight towers as well as entire the stadium are being thoroughly checked to ensure no repeat of the glitch witnessed during the India-SA match, he said.
The stadium had plunged into partial darkness during the second innings of the India-SA match on October 2 last year when one of the four floodlight towers went off halting play for 18 minutes.
Asked if steps have been been taken to ensure that snakes do not create problems for those present in the field, Gogoi said the help of an NGO has been sought. It has sprayed chemicals and has taken other measures to ensure that there is no recurrence. “Not just the field, we are taking these steps to control the presence of reptiles across the stadium, including in the stands,” he added.
A snake had come out of a small pit in the field while the home team was batting in the first half of the T20 match stopping play for about five minutes till the groundsmen captured it. PTI
