Champions Trophy: Pakistan’s three grounds will be upgraded in time?

Cricket Champions Trophy This time it is being held in Pakistan. According to the schedule, the matches between the eight best teams of the world cricket will start from February 19, 2025.

For Champions Trophy competitions Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has started the preparation. Three major stadiums in the country are being upgraded for this event. For which the PCB office building and two enclaves in Gaddafi Stadium have also been demolished. Their reconstruction work is in progress.

According to PCB, following upgrading the Gaddafi Stadium, the seating area is being increased as per international stadiums and the seating area is being increased. 12 billion 80 crore rupees have been allocated for the upgrade project of Gaddafi Stadium, National Bank Stadium Karachi and Rawalpindi Stadium from the development budget.

Funds of Rs.4 billion 50 crore have been earmarked for the promotion of domestic cricket, while the PCB will itself maintain 12 grounds for the promotion of domestic cricket.

According to former spokesperson PCB Umar Farooq Kalson, ‘Gaddafi Stadium is a historic ground whose central parts are being reconstructed. There is less time left in Furui and the work is more as Karachi and Rawalpindi stadiums also have to be upgraded. The construction work will have to be stopped during the monsoon rains, but Chairman PCB has instructed that these three stadiums should be prepared as soon as possible by working day and night.

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“Immediately following that until April,” he said Pakistan Super League (PSL) is also to be held. So there is a lot of pressure on the PCB these days regarding arrangements. There are stadiums in Peshawar, Faisalabad, Sialkot and Quetta, but there are neither PSL matches nor international matches. The reason for this is the lack of security and other world-class facilities.

But this is not so important because the stadiums in the three big cities have security around them and good hotels for the players. In many countries of the world, there is also a method of holding the entire series or tournament in two cities.

History of Gaddafi Stadium

According to PCB records, the foundation of the historic Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore was laid in 1959, while this ground has won the honor of hosting numerous Test matches, ODIs and T20 matches.

Along with this, 1987 World Cup semi-final and 1996 Cricket World Cup final were also played in Gaddafi Stadium Lahore.

During Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s regime, when the summit of Islamic countries was held in Lahore in 1974, in which the heads of Islamic countries participated. Former Libyan President Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was also included in them. He gave a speech on the importance of the unity of Islamic countries in the Gaddafi Stadium and the government named this stadium following Colonel Gaddafi. Some time ago PCB also considered naming the stadium following the name of the sponsor. But still the name of this historical stadium is Gaddafi Stadium.