{"id":11821,"date":"2013-07-02T14:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T08:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=11821"},"modified":"2013-07-02T21:34:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T16:04:50","slug":"first-class-cricket-stadium-coming-up-at-thumba-work-already-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/first-class-cricket-stadium-coming-up-at-thumba-work-already-started\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Class Cricket Stadium coming up at Thumba, Work already started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the work on the <a title=\"Thiruvananthapuram all set for its first International stadium\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/thiruvanathapuram-all-set-for-its-first-international-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kariavattom International Stadium<\/a> is fast progressing, another exclusive cricket stadium is coming up at the St Xavier\u2019s College campus, Thumba. The new cricket stadium will have all facilities to host first-class matches and will attract cricket lovers in the city. The<strong> Kerala Cricket Association (KCA)<\/strong> has already signed an agreement with the college management in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium which is being developed on an area of around 6 acres on the college campus will have a seating capacity of between <strong>50,000 and 60,000<\/strong>. The preliminary works such as removal of loose sand and laying of red earth at the site, have entered the final stage. After this is complete planting of Australian grass for the cricket field will be started and the pavilion and a jogging path will be simultaneously set up. \u00a0Round-the-clock security and fencing around the stadium are also included in the project.<\/p>\n<p>The total project cost Rs 2crore. Kerala Cricket Association proposed the idea of a cricket stadium two years ago, but the project was delayed owing to several reasons. The KCA has plans to set up facilities on the cricket ground that would similar to the standard of a first-class cricket ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed stadium is an ambitious project. Comprehensive facilities, including a turf wicket, pavilion, dressing and dining rooms, nets and training facilities, will also be set up.\u201d said District Cricket Association secretary Vinod S Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>The college has handed over the land to the KCA and the officials said that the upcoming stadium would also be used for matches of the college and for other major tournaments too. According to the MoU signed between KCA and <a title=\"St Xavier\u2019s College\" href=\"http:\/\/listing.entecity.com\/business\/st-xaviers-college\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>St Xavier\u2019s College<\/strong><\/a>, the cricket ground will be maintained by the KCA for a period of 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the work on the Kariavattom International Stadium is fast progressing, another exclusive cricket stadium is coming up at the St Xavier\u2019s College campus, Thumba. The new cricket stadium will have all facilities to host first-class matches and will attract cricket lovers in the city. The Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) has already signed an agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-11821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}