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New York's 34,000-seater Eisenhower Park prepared for T20 World Cup activity
Eisenhower Park in New York, the first modular stadium in international cricket, is ready for the T20 World Cup. The 34,000-seater venue, about 25 miles east of New York City, was formally launched on Wednesday by Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man and a World Cup ambassador.
The ICC will direct test occasions at the new scene in the days paving the way to the World Cup, which starts on June 1 and will be played in the West Indies and the USA. New York will have eight of the 16 coordinates in the USA with Dallas and Texas facilitating four each. The principal match at Eisenhower Park, situated in Nassau Region, will be played on June 3 between South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Eisenhower Park will likewise have a warm-up match on June 1, which ESPNcricinfo has learned will include Bangladesh and India. During the fundamental competition, India will play three games in New York including the marquee challenge against Pakistan on June 9.
The task at Eisenhower Park, one of the most aggressive at any point embraced by the ICC, involved raising a new arena in five months on what in January was simply ordinary park land. A huge piece of the test included planning drop-in contributes Florida and shipping them via land to New York prior to introducing them both in the principal square as well as the training regions.
Ten drop-in contributes were placed spot in the principal square to go with six others for preparing close to the ground. The pitches have been arranged by Adelaide Oval Turf Arrangements, which is going by Damian Hough, the head guardian at Adelaide Oval. The outfield, in the mean time, was worked via LandTek Gathering, a USA-based turf-production business that has arranged playing surfaces for ball clubs New York Yankees and New York Mets, and soccer (football) club Entomb Miami.
"We've turned what was park land and a casual cricket ground into what you'll concur resembles a top notch cricket arena that you could find anyplace," Chris Tetley, ICC's head of occasions, said in a media cooperation on Tuesday.
While the Bangladesh versus India warm-up game will be the first highlighting two worldwide groups at Eisenhower Park, Tetley said "local area cricket occasions" would be arranged over the most recent fourteen days of May to comprehend the functional requests and the administration of the assets including testing the foundation. "There will be legitimate cricket played there before the main match of the occasion," he said.
Tickets still available to all for India versus Pakistan
Tetley said that fans might in any case profit of "restricted open doors" to purchase passes to each of the eight matches of the T20 World Cup in New York, including the India versus Pakistan match.
"There are as yet restricted open doors for individuals to purchase passes to any of the matches," he said. "A couple of tickets and friendliness to all games have been made accessible, and will be made accessible as we get the odd returns back from distributions that have must be held back.
"To such an extent as I'd like it to be a sellout, at the present time, not exactly. So the last couple of tickets are accessible for those that get online rapidly."