New media centre for Sara Stadium

CRICKET: The Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club yesterday unveiled a new state-of-the-art Media Centre ahead of the first one-day international between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium.

The Media Centre at the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium came in for severe criticism following a number of shortcomings during the second Test match between the two teams played two week’s ago.

But the Tamil Union Club were able to perform a near miracle in less than two weeks as they upgraded the Media Centre while putting up permanent tiers, efficient work stations, glass panelling and fully air-conditioned making it the best in the country.

In addition the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium will be the only Wi-Fi enabled Media Centre in Sri Lanka. The development work was originally planned for the latter part of the year but it was fast tracked especially for yesterday’s one-day international.

The P. Saravanamuttu Stadium was the historic venue which hosted the inaugural Test match against England in 1982.