Mirpur: an international venue?

More international games for Mirpur



MIRPUR, Azad Kashmir: The people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) will witness another one-day cricket match to be played at the Quaid-e-Azam International Sports Stadium here in February next year.

This was disclosed by Chairman Mirpur Development Authority (MDA) Sardar Mohammad Rahim Khan while addressing a news conference here on Friday.

Rahim said the management has decided to open the world-class stadium for the regular One-day Internationals (ODIs) as well as Tests to provide quality cricket to the fans.

Deputy Commissioner and Patron-in-Chief District Cricket Association Fayyaz Ali Abbasi, Acting President AJK Cricket Association Nawaz Rattayal, DCA President Ashraf Butt, Director Estate Management MDA Raja Fazal-ur-Rehman, Secretary Rashed Hanif, SDM Mohammad Tayyab and other officials of the DCA and the cricket management committee were also present at this occasion.

Rahim added that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has been moved with the recommendation to accord the Test centre status to Mirpur due to the existence of the world-class Quaid-e-Azam Stadium.

He said this will promote the sport activities especially cricket besides the international tourism in this picturesque town located in the periphery of the scenic Mangla lake.

The MDA chief revealed that a coaching camp under talent-hunt programme is being held by National Cricket Academy (NCA) at the Quaid-e-Azam Stadium from November 20 and it will continue till November 30 for picking the required talent.

He said that prior to this, the trials to look for the talent would commence from November 18. Local lads of the 12-22 age group would be eligible to participate in the trials which will be supervised by former Test cricketer Mudassar Nazar.


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by the way does anyone have pictures of the stadium?

great news! heres the pic btw

hopefully they will host world cup matches here too

mirpur is only 2 hours away from our house in pakistan

by the way how many seats has it got?

from that pic it looks like 10000-15000

whih teanms are gonna play in the february match?

obviously pakistan will be 1 team

Dont think we will see any matches there as you need to have a 4 star hotel there. There isnt any 4 star hotel in the vicinity.

5 star hotel is ready in that area on request of PCB

capacity of ground is 25K

It looks like an English ground to me

I hope that pic is out of date. The ground looks like a concrete bowl..........looks terrible. I hope they have put a roof around it.

What, no roof around the stadium? I hope that is an unfinished picture, or something.

At least we get to see different ground in Pakistan. Don't forget lot of Enlish is probably spent on it.

to me it looks like the faisalabad stadium

Mirpur is only 3 hours from where I live (Sehnsa, Kotli). Would be great to go to a match there but dont fancy the dodgy roads

hey, you live in kotli too

nic eto see someone else from where i live too

It's great news for the Mirpuris. The stadium looks similar to Faisalabad unfortunately but i like those 4 green stands at each corner. Hopefully the pitch will be pretty decent and there will a big crowd for the match. ZM will elated.

Robbo?

You been wacky backying it? Why the giggles? What's so funny?

I'm not laughing at you Hash

Oh I see.

Well, what can I say.....Easa respects me

there is no 5 star hotel there but there is a 5 star resort opening there next year and a 5 star pc hotel has been made in muzzafrabad so we should also make a staidum there is well, well be very usefull for our players is well as it will have the conditions of uk and australia.

wow this is great news!
i drove past the stadium in april looked good!

Tue 9 oct Pakistan Under-19s v Australia Under-19s
Mirpur Cricket Stadium

Fri 12 oct Pakistan Under-19s v Australia Under-19s
Mirpur Cricket Stadium

one day we might see the national team play there

I m really surprised, Aus hockey team not willing to play in Lahore or cricket team have concerns playing in Karachi, but their junior team are playing in Kashmir.