international and national sports in vizag

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India vs egypt volley ball champion ship competetions are persently going on and in first match india won in all the 3 sets. these competetions are going on port stadium, swarnajayanthi stadium, gitam stadium etc upto 21 st of this month daily from 6pm onwards
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webgeek · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:52 pm Post subject:

Oh. Ive seen the Egyptian team at the CMR. The boys are really really tall (compared to our average height)
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sashi.jana · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:05 am Post subject:

Test status for Vizag

HYDERABAD: V. Chamundeswaranath, ACA secretary, made his presence felt at the BCCI annual general meeting in Mumbai on Saturday by moving the crucial resolution of granting Test status to Visakhapatnam and also ensuring that he is there on three committees – the high-profile marketing committee, seniors tournaments committee and the working committee. More than this, he also saw that ACA president G. Gangaraju was there on the tours and programmes committees.

“I had to move the resolution on getting Test status for we are ready in all aspects to host Tests in future,” Chamundi, as he is known in cricketing circles, informed The Hindu from Mumbai. The ACA official’s move got a prompt response from the BCCI which said that within one month it would get back on the subject positively by asking the concerned authorities in the ICC to see that the Test status was granted. Interestingly, this move means that Hyderabad, which is also awaiting similar response, will be benefited simultaneously.

And, perhaps for the first time in recent memory, officials from the State will have a major role to play in the various BCCI panels. The biggest of them all is the unanimous election of N. Shivlal Yadav as vice-president of BCCI from the South Zone. Mr. Yadav also heads the senior tournaments committee. The other key posts which were finalised on Saturday were: Purnima Rau (senior national selection committee for women), V. K. Ramaswamy and M. V. Sridhar (technical committee), N. Gangaraju (tours and fixtures programmes committee). This is the best thing to have happened to cricket from the State, asserts D. S. Chalapathi, HCA joint secretary, even while congratulating Mr. Yadav for his elevation in the BCCI.

In three panels

By all means, Mr. Chamundeswaranath ensured that he grabbed the focus despite being in the ACA secretary’s post for just about a year. “We are ready to go to any extent to promote the game and my being in the three committees should only help the cause of the sport in the State,” he insists. That he is a member of the working committee – the ultimate deciding body of BCCI – is a bonus for him. And, he hopes that being on the marketing panel, he can only rope in more sponsors for ACA. “It is bound to have a spiralling effect for the good if you make your presence felt in the BCCI. And, I will try my best to ensure that the cricket’s interests are protected,” he remarked.

sashi.jana · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:45 am Post subject:

Cricket stadium gets floodlights

Special Correspondent

According to ICC rules, the facility is a must to get Test status

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Phillips Electronics installing the lights

It is going to be a New Year gift: official

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Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam

Ready for action: Floodlights being installed at the ACA-VDCA stadium in the city on Saturday. —

VISAKHAPATNAM: The modern ACA-VDCA stadium at Pothinamallayyapalem here will soon have another important facility added to it. Floodlighting, which facilitates day-night matches, are being provided at the stadium. Three masts have been erected on Saturday and the fourth and final mast would be in place by Sunday.

Once the floodlights are in place in full measure, the stadium, which hosted ODIs so far and earned the appreciation of all visiting teams for the facilities available there, would be ready to host Test matches. The International Cricket Council made floodlights at a cricket stadium mandatory to host Test matches and ACA quickly got into action and went for floodlights at its prestigious stadium.

Massive towers

Phillips Electronics India limited bagged the Rs.5 crores contract and work commenced six weeks ago. Santhi Enterprises of Chennai is executing the work of erecting the masts at the four corners of the stadium. A lot of precautions have been taken to position the cranes to lift and place the masts. Each mast will have 98 bulbs. Each mast will have a control room. The luminance would be according to international standards. Once the erection of masts was completed, the work on connecting cables to the panels would be taken up. Final testing is expected to be carried out by November-end and by mid-December the entire system should be in place.

“It is going to be a New Year gift to the people of Visakhapatnam”, said vice-president of ACA and VDCA P.R. Narayanaswami.

President of VDCA D.V. Subba Rao, secretary K. Parthasaradhi, and other office-bearers thanked the ACA for providing floodlights at the stadium.

Chairman of Visakhapatnam Port Trust Ajeya Kallam, who is a former president of VDCA, is expected to visit the stadium in a few weeks to assess the need to provide other facilities.

Two generators of 625 KV capacity each would be provided to light the floodlights. A sum of Rs. 70 lakhs has to be spent on the generators.