SBNCS touches a milestone
The venue hosts 150th match in three formats
Sports Reporter
With the Dhaka Test between Bangladesh and Australia the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS), dubbed the countrys home of cricket, touched a milestone of hosting 150 international matches here yesterday.
In rankings, the SBNCS has since been placed ninth among all the international cricket venues. The venue, which has recently been renovated just six years after 2010, hosted so far 16 Tests coupled with 98 one-day and 36 Twenty20 among the 150 international fixtures.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), an Australian illustrious sports stadium, topped on the table, the venue which hosted the highest number of 266 international outings across the three formats of games.
With this Test match, both teams have been faced off for the first-ever time though they earlier were face to face four times. Of them, they faced each other in Darwin and Cairns in 2003 and in Fatullah and Chittagong in 2006.
Bangladesh got down playing their first Test in Mirpur in 2007. Since then, they played 14 Tests, wherein they won two matches that came from against Zimbabwe and England.
In 2014, the Tigers won the Test against Zimbabwe by three wickets. And they hinted at the world cricket as a reckoning force by beating the top-flight England in October, 2016.
Bangladesh conceded defeats to India, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Pakistan two time each while England and South Africa one Test each at this venue.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) planned to build a museum on the SBNCS premises and formed a committee to look after the matter. BCB director and its publication committee chairman Jalal Younus was given the charge to this end. Thereafter, the committee presented a proposal which was approved by the 15th board directors meeting.
In this regard, Jalal Younus said that they selected the place for the museum next to the No 4 gate of the stadium.
Nearby the no. 4 gate of the SBNCS, weve selected the place for the museum after getting the boards nod. But were yet to start working. Hopefully we could soon start working, Jalal Younus said.
