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The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will accommodate five sport federations in the new Sheikh Hasina International Cricket Stadium complex, BCB grounds committee chairman Mahbubul Anam informed yesterday.
The influential BCB director, who went to observe the progress of the under-construction stadium, said that the National Sports Council (NSC) had previously requested the board to accommodate some of the other federations at the newly-built stadium in Purbachol.
“Not just the ground, we are going to have an academy building along with the BCB’s own building. There is also a hotel space in the blueprint of the stadium complex, which we are going to build gradually. Apart from that, there will be a cricketers’ club and we are also going to provide infrastructure for five sporting federations as well,” Mahbubul said.
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“The NSC had requested us to accommodate some federations and they sent us a list of 30 federations from which we were asked to select five. We have already allocated the space accordingly and included it in the drawing. We are going to provide separate entry and exit point so that there won’t be any issues with our work.”
Although Mahbubul did not disclose which five federations the BCB was going to accommodate, Zahid Ahsan Russel, the state minister for Youth and Sports, revealed the space would be allocated for indoor-based sports federations.
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“We proposed the BCB to allocate some space so that we could accommodate some of our indoor games, which are not finding any place. If the board gives us some space, we could have a gymnasium and a vertical extension building where each federation can have a floor. (BCB president Nazmul Hassan) Papon bhai agreed to the proposal, but we are yet to decide which federations we are going to allocate. We are going to have a meeting next week to decide this,” Russel told The Daily Star yesterday.
As for cricketing facilities, Anam informed that the main ground would have 10 pitches and that the training ground would feature six pitches. He said that it was expected that the pitches would begin to be prepared from next month, adding that the board was looking to bring in a curator from New Zealand.
