LAHORE, June 14: Karachi’s National Stadium, Pakistan’s luckiest venue in Test cricket, will be the first centre where an electronic scoreboard and TV replay screen will be installed in August while four other major stadiums will also have the same facilities by mid of September, it was known on Thursday.
In his first meeting with the board’s Chief Operating Officer Shafqat Naghmi, Saleem Altaf, PCB’s Director Special Project, briefed him about the electronic scoreboards and TV replay screens’ installation at the five main arenas of the country and the agenda for the 2011 World Cup organising committee’s first meeting in Bhurban in the next few days.
It was learnt that all the five stadiums will have the said facilities, for which a South African firm has been given a contract, by Sept 14.
The stadiums, to be equipped with the mentioned facilities, are National Stadium, Gaddafi Stadium, Iqbal Stadium (Faisalabad), Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium and Multan Cricket Stadium.
