Authorities provides PCB inexperienced mild to construct stadium in Islamabad

The choice was taken in a gathering held between PCB chairman Ramiz Raja and Prime Minister Imran Khan right here.

Pakistan is about to host the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy and Ramiz, since his election because the board’s chief, has been vocal concerning the state of worldwide cricket venues within the nation not being in accordance with the required customary.

In a current press convention, the previous Take a look at captain had stated the PCB was trying ahead to constructing a “high-tech” stadium within the federal capital.

The plan for a stadium in Islamabad, although, was finalised again in 2008 by the then federal authorities of the Pakistan’s Individuals’s Get together when the Capital Growth Authority allotted 40-acre land for it.

The PCB, nevertheless, didn’t provoke work on the web site, forcing the CDA to cancel the 33-year lease. In 2012, the federal authorities acquired permission from the CDA to start out development work on the positioning once more.

This time the physique allotted 35 acres of land and demanded a 30 per cent share of all income generated from the actions held on the venue after it’s constructed.

For the reason that allotted land was positioned within the premises of Shakarparian Nationwide Park, the CDA requested the PCB to submit an environmental evaluation report of the undertaking. The board failed to do this and development was as soon as once more halted solely after the completion of the boundary wall.

In 2014, the then PCB chairman Najam Sethi introduced that the development work would resume on the positioning however no progress was made.

Ehsan Mani, who succeeded Sethi in 2018, didn’t have the Islamabad stadium on his agenda. He was extra centered on the renovation of the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad due to its proximity to Karachi.