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Cricket Australia inspects venues

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Mumbai: After visiting venues of the India-Australia seven match one-day international series, Cricket Australia officials had a cordial winding up meeting with the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Prof. Ratnakar Shetty at the Cricket Centre, here last week.

Michael Brown, Cricket Australia’s General Manager, Operations, was not among the CA’s group that visited the venues, but he flew to Mumbai and met the BCCI officials at the Cricket Centre.

Familiar with India, team manager Steve Bernard and Security Manager, Reginald Dickson and the Australian Players’ Association representative Peter Marsh, and CA Cricket Manager, Geoff Allardice were among the party that inspected the facilities in Chandigarh, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Baroda and Kochi.

Good facilities

Prof. Shetty said that Michael Brown and others were quite happy with the Sector 16 stadium in Chandigarh where an international match will be played after one and a half decades. This match has been awarded to the Haryana Cricket Association.

“Ricky Ponting’s team had practiced at the Sector 16 stadium during the ICC Champions Trophy and are very pleased with the facilities there. The Kerala Cricket Association will take up Kochi’s Nehru Stadium for preparatory work two months before the match. Moreover Australia has played a match in Kochi.

“Some construction work is going on at Hyderabad’s new stadium. Hyderabad has the biggest dressing rooms in India,” said Prof. Shetty.

Australia will play one-day internationals from September 29 to October 17 at Bangalore, Kochi, Chandigarh, Baroda, Nagpur and Mumbai.

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