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Talanta Sports Stadium, also Talanta Sports City is a sports stadium under construction, in the city of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It is intended to be used during the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament. The stadium is one of the stadia that Kenya plans to use during the tournament, that will be jointly hosted by Tanzania, Uganda ...
The R. Premadasa Stadium was also one of the three grounds in Sri Lanka that hosted matches for the 1996 Cricket World Cup. The other two were the Asgiriya Stadium and the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground. [6] The R. Premadasa Stadium was the venue for the match in 1997 where Sri Lanka scored a record 952 runs for 6 wickets against India. [7]
The stadium has been undergoing large-scale renovations since 2009. It has had its seating capacity increase from 14,000 to 40,000, the media box accommodating 200 journalists, and other upgrades. The renovations have cost Sri Lanka Cricket $8 million. [3]
The cheapest tickets cost 20 US cents in Sri Lanka. [30] In January 2011, the ICC declared the Eden Gardens ground in Kolkata , India, to be unfit and unlikely to be complete by 27 February, when it was scheduled to host a match between India and England.
The proposal for a new International Cricket Stadium at Sooriyawewa was part of the government's programme to develop sports in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka as part of the government's plan to transform Hambantota into the second major urban hub of Sri Lanka, away from Colombo.
The stadium was built for the 2011 Cricket World Cup along with Hambantota International Cricket Stadium.In July 2010, The Central Provincial Council in Kandy announced plans to rename the stadium to honour the legendary Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan, [3] but hasn't officially done so yet.
For more popular games — like Dallas' Thanksgiving game — fans will pay between $1,000 and $1,300 per ticket for seats near the field, while sections towards the back of the stadium cost an ...
Galle International Stadium (Sinhala: ගාල්ල ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩාංගණය, Tamil: காலி பன்னாட்டு அரங்கம்) is a cricket stadium in Galle, Sri Lanka, situated near Galle Fort and fringed on two sides by the Indian Ocean. It is considered ...