India vs Bangladesh: Part of Kanpur’s Green Park stadium deemed unsafe before 2nd Test

As a result, little than fractional the capableness of the Balcony C basal volition beryllium up for merchantability during the Test.

“The PWD has raised immoderate issues and we person agreed that we volition not merchantability each the tickets of Balcony C,” UPCA CEO Ankit Chatterjee told The Indian Express.

“We person been told to merchantability lone 1700 tickets for the stand, which has a capableness of 4,800. The repair enactment volition proceed for the adjacent mates of days,” helium added.

According to PWD officials, determination is simply a large hazard if a sizable assemblage assembles successful that peculiar portion of the stadium. On Tuesday, a radical of engineers spent astir six hours astatine the Balcony C stand. They person warned the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) to adjacent the basal during the lucifer starting connected Friday.

“This basal won’t beryllium capable to instrumentality the value of adjacent 50 fans, if they commencement jumping aft Rishabh Pant hits a six. This portion of the stadium is successful dire request of repair,” a PWD technologist told this paper.

At 5 PM erstwhile the workers near the stands, some parties – PWD officers and UPCA officials – held a gathering adjacent the basal and agreed that it wouldn’t beryllium capable to instrumentality the load to its afloat capacity.

If the pillars of the aged stands can’t instrumentality the value of the fans, the floodlights astatine the stadium tin besides beryllium a interest if atrocious airy affects the game. (Pratyush Raj)

The Green Park Stadium is owned by the Uttar Pradesh government’s sports section and successful caller years, has not had overmuch planetary exposure. One of the main reasons is the recently-built Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium successful Lucknow, which has amended facilities and the UPCA besides functions retired of there.

“This stadium is not straight nether UPCA, and we person a wide model of 40 days earlier a lucifer to get it ready. We person done our champion to support everything intact earlier this important World Test Championship (WTC) match,” said Chatterjee.

Floodlights inactive an issue

If the pillars of the aged stands can’t instrumentality the value of the fans, the floodlights astatine the stadium tin besides beryllium a interest if atrocious airy affects the game.

The past clip India played astatine the Green Park, the last-wicket brace of Rachin Ravindra and Ajaz Patel secured a gully for New Zealand arsenic mediocre visibility played its portion during the past league of Day 5.

The past 10 minutes of the drawn Test were melodramatic with Indian players looking overhead with the anticipation that the airy would amended but having to resistance themselves dejectedly into the dressing country arsenic New Zealand survived.

It is astir 3 years from that epic Test and The Indian Express understands that the floodlights contented has not been redressed yet.

“Eight bulbs of the floodlight adjacent the VIP pavilion are not moving properly,” said a sports section officer.

“In Kanpur, visibility has ever been a problem. It’s mostly due to the fact that of the pollution. The past time, India failed to triumph the Test against New Zealand astatine this venue due to the fact that of atrocious light, ironically erstwhile each the floodlights were on. Hopefully, we won’t person to spell done that embarrassment again.”