By: BCCI
The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) and Afghanistan Cricket Board signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority to use Shahid Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex as home ground for Afghanistan Cricket Team.
This ground was recently inspected by ICC and was cleared for hosting Associate vs Associate ODI and T20I matches. It was also cleared to host Associate vs Full Member ‘A’ team matches.
ICC has not yet approved this ground for matches involving national teams of full members and listed a few requirements to be approved it for hosting full members main team.
The BCCI president Shashank Manohar said, “BCCI will be happy to help any ICC member for the development of the game and this is a step in developing international cricket and increasing the competition.”
Honorary Secretary of the BCCI, Anurag Thakur said, “Afghanistan was quite keen to shift their home base to India for sometime now and it has been BCCI’s vision to expand the game globally and help associate and affiliate members of ICC.”
“In this direction, we identified this ground and Greater Noida authorities were open and cooperative to offer this ground to Afghanistan Cricket Board.”
