Ahmedabad: Gujarat is all set soon to achieve yet another milestone with Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) building the World’s largest cricket stadium overtaking Melbourne Cricket Stadium in Australia. Gujarat Cricket Stadium at Motera, Ahmedabad will accommodate 1,10,000 spectators against Melbourne Cricket Stadium’s total capacity of 1,00,024. GCA vice president Shri Parimal Nathwani reviewed the progress of the ongoing construction work on April 2, 2018 and expressed satisfaction.

The World’s largest cricket stadium with all modern facilities has been realized by GCA under stewardship of its president Shri Amit Shah, who also happens to be National President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The vice president was accompanied by Joint Secretary Shri Jay Shah, executive committee member Shri Bharat Zaveri, Shri Bharat Dudhia, etc during the visit to the construction site. Engineers and officials of the construction contractor L&T and the project management firm M/s STUP Consultants and architect designer firm M/s Populus remained present during the site visit and the marathon review presentations subsequently at the site.

“The construction work is going in full swing as per the schedule and we expect the stadium to be ready within the stipulated time period,” said Shri Parimal Nathwani, vice president of Gujarat Cricket Association. He added that the new stadium will be a modern day marvel and add one more attraction to the city of Ahmedabad.

The new cricket stadium will be spread over approximately 63 acres of land and will have a Club house having 50-55 rooms and an Olympic size swimming pool. Moreover, the stadium will have three practice grounds for cricketers as well as indoor cricket academy for providing coaching to the young players. GCA is also planning to increase the number of corporate boxes to 70-75.

“We will inform the media and general public about the progress of the construction of the stadium from time to time,” said Shri Nathwani.

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