Sri Lanka Cricket’s massive facelift of 3 T20 World Cup venues with SSC coming under floodlights historic
Sri Lanka Cricket met yesterday in full force with its executive committee headed by its President Shammi Silva at Colombo’s Cinnamon Grand’s mahogany ballroom outlining the vast volume of preparatory work of men and machines at a hectic pace of work involved to sprucing up the three cornered venues where over 15 matches would be staged with Sri Lanka co-hosting cricket’s most exhilarating showpiece 2026 ICC T20 World Cup that would not only be a huge upswing boom for cricket in the country given the ultimate status quo magnitude such an event carries where Sri Lanka Cricket deserved a congratulatory bouquet for its part In winning staging rights along with co-host India, and still hugely the fruitful economy impact for the tourism and hospitality industry as a whole.
Taking center stage in spelling out the preparatory work yesterday the day belonged to Sri Lanka’s cut out immaculate cricket man behind the mike compere, international tv commentator Roshan Abeysinghe in the center stage chore of announcing that while the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium at Khettarama had come under the facelift of the lighting systems, the immense historical significance behind Colombo’s Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) Ground being upgraded to international status where the world cup curtain raiser would be kicked off on February 7; similarly. the Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium had come under refurbishment by a workload behind it.
“I must say Sri Lanka Cricket deserves a special thank you bouquet of roses by the country for its singular effort in winning co-hosting rights of such a grand world event as the ICC T20 World Cup. Let us give them a round of applause.”
The applause by the massive gathering of the media and VIPs followed Roshan further outlining the massive volume of work has put into the whole preparatory gamut by Sri Lanka Cricket involving the three hosting venues with ‘special mention must be made of the historical significance of the age old SSC that will shortly become an international venue where Sri Lanka Cricket has stepped in to upgrading it along with the full lighting system paving the way for floodlight cricket at all levels in future.’
source: srilankacricket.lk
