Rahul Tiwari
khelja|13-07-2024
The Australian Cricket Board is known for its good infrastructure. Australia has many big and modern stadiums. The most famous among them are the stadiums of Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane. Like India, there are stadiums for domestic cricket and other tournaments, but only 6 of them host international cricket. Now the board is planning a stadium in which cricket can be played in every season. For this, they are planning to build a stadium with a roof in Hobart city in collaboration with the Tasmania Cricket Board. If this happens, cricket can be played in every season, be it storm or rain.
Weather plays an important role in the game of cricket. Rain becomes a big problem in this. Many times matches have to be cancelled due to rain. According to ESPN Cricinfo's report, Australia Cricket has therefore planned a roofed stadium in collaboration with the Tasmania Cricket Board. Tasmania Cricket wants to build this stadium keeping in mind red ball i.e. Test cricket.
For this, he has contacted a company named Macquarie Point Development Corporation. Its representatives have said that the height of the roof can become a big problem in building it. He further said that nothing can be said until it is ready. Detailed work is being done on its design and other important things.
Alistair Richardson, CEO of Cox Architecture, is working on the design of the stadium. According to him, the height of the roof can become a problem in the game of cricket, but a solution is being found for this as well. In this regard, he suggested technology like Hawk Eye and ball tracking. Through this, the height of the ball hit by a batsman will be measured and according to that, it will be estimated how high the ball can go at the most.
Australia Cricket wants to build a roof over the entire stadium. However, there is already such a stadium in Dubai. It helps in avoiding storms, but its roof is semi-circle, meaning it does not cover the stadium completely. Apart from this, it is built outside the boundary line, whereas in Hobart, Australia, there is talk of covering the entire ground above the boundary line.