ICC Approved Bangladesh Cricket Stadiums

[Sticky Wicket]

Not the most fascinating subject, I know, but nonetheless, does anyone know which cricket stadiums in Bangladesh have been approved by the ICC for official Test/ODI matches ?

Obviously the BNS stadium and old Chittagong stadium are, but I remember that Clive Lloyd was sent to Bangladesh just before the Bangladesh-Zimbabwe series to assess the new stadiums (Bogra, Khulna, Chittagong).

[Zunaid]

We are in kind of a sticky wicket situation here.

The BNS and the Chittagong divisional stadium has approval fot both Test and ODI venues as you have mentioned

The others had some shortcomings that need to be fixed before approval.

For Fatullah, the issues were player security and travel time. Accroding to BCB these will be taken care of shortly nad they expect approval. [Me: Not sure how travel time will be taken care of]

For Bogra and Khulna, the sticking point was the lack of appropriate hotel accomodation at these venues.

If these are taken care of, the approval shoudl happen.

[babubangla]

Clive Lloyd inspected 4 venues: Ctg. Divisional Stadium, Bogra Chandu Stadium, Khulna Stadium, and Fotulla Stadium. Out of these four, only Chittagong Divisional Stadium got ICC Approval as International Venue. Other Stadiums were not approved mainly on ground of Transportation and Residential Hotel Standard issues.

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

true. that is the correct information by zunaid bhai and babubangla bhai. well i am not sure about the khulna one but the one in bogra is pretty impressive. the thing with bogra is that they want faster transportation from dhaka city which in other words means that they want air service. but unfortunately in bogra there is no airport. but other than that the stadium in bogra, the pitch and the field i think is in pretty good shape.

[Sham]

Originally posted by Zunaid

For Fatullah, the issues were player security and travel time. Accroding to BCB these will be taken care of shortly nad they expect approval. [Me: Not sure how travel time will be taken care of]



I am guessing that the travel time issue with Fatullah had to do with the building of the Khilgaon flyover, which is now complete and the travel time should be much reduced.

[Mav]

I heard Fatullah And Mirpur Stadium will be the most modern and the work are already in progress.

Travel time is a deal for fatullah? Its not that far....

[TigerFan]

Can someone post the pics of all the stadiums plz?

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

Well the thing with fatullah is that it is not that far true. but they have to go through a horrible traffic jam while leaving the dhaka city. and the thing with mirpur stadium, i am still confused what is going to be happening with it. because still some people are telling to move cricket back to dhaka stadium. so what is actually going to happen.

[Sticky Wicket]

Thanks to all for your inside knowledge. Well, by the sound of it, we now only have the new Chittagong stadium with the sad demise of the BNS. For future home matches/series, we can't only have just 1 stadium until the others get approved.
A bit worrying me thinks!

[ononto]

Originally posted by FaltuRidwanBhai
Well the thing with fatullah is that it is not that far true. but they have to go through a horrible traffic jam while leaving the dhaka city. and the thing with mirpur stadium, i am still confused what is going to be happening with it. because still some people are telling to move cricket back to dhaka stadium. so what is actually going to happen.


I saw the stadium when I was there last time in BD in August 2003. The stadium has a one of a kind wonderful structure as well as huge huge space outside and inside comparing to Bangabandhu National Stadium(formar) and Mirpur National Stadium. That time the capacity of the stadium was 30,000 (max. 50,000) which would rise upto 80,000 (max. 100,000) after the final construction of the projected gallery. The outer stadium can have the same kind of facilities like cricket shops, officies & others which most of the modern stadiums now have. Both the east side and west side have plenty of outer space (more then a stadium) available to play club or practices.


Transportation is really a poor fact here in my opinion comparing it's situated only 12 KMS from BNS. They should take care of Traffic Jam rather put transportation as a issue.

[shaoun]

cricket should stay in BNS because even with BNS football is not pulling much crowd. i think BNS should still host test matches, giving this historic ground to only football is not a good idea. if not other matches BNS should be allowed only test matches then. this way football can be played here when its football season. ma aziz stadium in chitagong should stay for cricket. i think we should add one more test venue. which can be bogura. i heard alot of positive thing about bogura. and hosting test match there will definitely do alot of good for boguras economy. this three should host test and odi except BNS which can host only test. mirpur can be used as first class matches and domestic tournaments and odi. and we should take odi also to rajshahi. i dont think we should have any more ground for international matches because taking care of grounds costs alot of money.