Zimbabwe are building a 10,000-seater stadium in a town where only 35,000 permanent residents live<\/p>\n
It might be hard to believe, but come the ODI World Cup 2027, people will be able to watch international cricket matches with the great Victoria Fall against the backdrop of a 10,000-seater stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All this materialised thanks to Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC)\u2019s ambitious Fale Mosi-oa-Tunya International Cricket Stadium project which has reached near completion. ZC’s flagship stadium will be completed at the cost of nearly 12 million US dollars, according to a report by ESPNcricinfo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The board has faced stern criticism for building such a huge stadium in a town with a population of only 35,000 odd people, according to a 2022 census. However, it has continued on its dream project, which, as of the latest reports, already has main pitch planted, irrigation installed, and grass embankments completed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although the tournament schedule is yet to be announced, in all likelihood, Zimbabwe, who have qualified as full member co-hosts of the tournament, will get at least two stadiums allocated to them and the ZC plans to use Victoria Fall as one of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Victoria Falls is our flagship project, but Zimbabwe Cricket is also investing heavily in other venues,” Tavengwa Mukhulani, ZC’s MD, was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the World Cup, Zimbabwe are aiming to recoup a lot of money from the tours by the Big 3 of Cricket and their large travelling fan armies, who would be ‘excited’ to watch cricket at Victoria Fall, a tourist attraction which sees at least half a mission visitors every year in the vicinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe are building a 10,000-seater stadium in a town where only 35,000 permanent residents live It might be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-97554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}