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Monday, October 31, 2005
Tsunami-hit town will host Tests
Sri Lankan cricket chiefs have rejected the suggestion that they will move their southern Test match base from Galle and hope the tsunami-hit town will be again staging internationals from June of next year.
SLC (Sri Lanka Cricket) national development committee chairman Priyantha Algama has revealed that construction work has already started on the venue by the Indian Ocean shore which was severely damaged by the Boxing Day tsunami which killed up to 220,000 worldwide and caused a large loss of life in Galle itself.
A new media centre and pavilion will be part of the new project.
Algama said the existing structures will be demolished and replaced by the new ones.
He said the drainage and sprinkler system for the entire ground will be replaced and the pitches relit. Even the scoreboard is being upgraded and given a new look.
Two thirds of the cost for the rebuilding the venue have been met from overseas donations including sizeable sums from the Victorian Foundation and the Shane Warne Foundation - Warne himself visited the town where he took his 500th Test wicket in March 2004.
Former England allround Ian Botham also flew to Galle to help the effort.
The indoor nets which weres completely destroyed by the tsunami will feature in the second stage of the redevelopment.
Source: Cricket365.com - Australia
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