L&T to build world's biggest cricket stadium at Motera

[_ramkumar]

L&T to build world's biggest cricket stadium at Motera

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The Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) came a step closer to make Sardar Patel Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad the biggest stadium in the world in terms of seating capacity when on Thursday it handed the contract to Larsen & Turbo (L&T) to begin work for the makeover.

GCA vice-president and Reliance Industries president Parimal Nathwani gave a letter of acceptance to L&T top officials in presence of key GCA officials.

A dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi under the leadership of GCA president Amit Shah, the old structure had already been razed and work will now begin to build a new stadium which can accommodate 1,10,000 people, the biggest in terms of seating capacity .With this, the new Motera Stadium will surpass the humongous Melbourne Cricket Ground in Austraia which can hold 100,024 people.

“The ground is ready to be handed over to the construction company,“ a GCA press release said. A GCA press release said: “The ground is ready to be handed over to the construction company. The new stadium, when completed, will be the largest cricket stadium in the world which will be made to meet all the latest international standards.“ The new stadium will have improved infrastructure for spectators with an increase in the number of air-conditioned boxes and up-gradation of parking facilities.The entry, stay and exit processes will be smoothed and emphasis will be given to facilitate guided tours of the cricket museum. Other facilities like eateries, fan-zones and washrooms will be of top quality. “In the next two years, the new structure will be ready,“ GCA secretary Rajesh Patel told TOI. Previously, the stadium with its six pavilions had a capacity of 54,000.

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2018?

 

[sandeep]

I hope this time they don't copy MCG or some other "phoren" waala look - like Rajkot made a chinese copy of Lords.  

[bowl_out]

Good stuff..

 

Talking of reconstruction of stands, any word on the I,J,K stands at Chepauk? Is it still sealed and locked up?

[chewy]

good to see L&T get the contract

 

they did excellent job with the new international Mumbai airport

[maniac]

Can they have a rain roof...that would be awesome...cricket should start having that.....I think the only sport where rain has the worst affect on matches

[sandeep]

18 minutes ago, maniac said:

Can they have a rain roof...that would be awesome...cricket should start having that.....I think the only sport where rain has the worst affect on matches

AMD wouldn't really need a rain roof - doesn't get that much anyway.  I think its a problem in places like SL, Bang, NZ.  Western India - Gujarat, Bombay etc has a very well defined "rainy season" and that's during "off-season" or touring season for the Indian cricket team.

[Cricketics]

2 hours ago, maniac said:

Can they have a rain roof...that would be awesome...cricket should start having that.....I think the only sport where rain has the worst affect on matches

And Baseball too. 

 

But seriously, spend money on the capacity but don't know why not a dome stadium. 

[cowboysfan]

They need to replace Chinnaswamy,cant believe  Bangalore is still stuck with such a small stadium.

[kosingh]

110k? What's the point, if they are never going to fill it up. Eden Gardens, Wankhade and all have become smaller over the years in terms of capacity, but Sardar Patel wants to be the biggest in the world. 

[Mosher]

10 minutes ago, kosingh said:

110k? What's the point, if they are never going to fill it up. Eden Gardens, Wankhade and all have become smaller over the years in terms of capacity, but Sardar Patel wants to be the biggest in the world. 

Yeah that was what I was thinking too. Its better to build smaller stadiums with the best of facilities than waste money on a large stadium which will struggle to fill up.

[kosingh]

40,000 people in a stadium that holds 50,000 looks a lot better than 40,000 in a stadium that holds 70,000.

 

Something about diminishing returns.