RAMOUTAR ON BLCA

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One man can proudly boast that the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba is ready for the prestigious ICC tournament, with the first game taking place on June 12th between West Indies and New Zealand.  He's none other facilities manager Shivanand Ramoutar, who says all the requirements have been met.

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00:00 The Brian Lara Cricket Academy will host four group stage games and also the

00:04 first semi-final at this year's ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Facilities manager

00:08 Shivanan Ramota who is linked to Udicott is pleased that the venue is all set for

00:12 cricket. We are completely ready for this World Cup. A lot of preparation has

00:17 been done here to meet the ICC requirements. We are fully prepared. We

00:22 got our clearance already from ICC. The pitch is already ready. With the rainy

00:28 season approaching many are concerned about the weather affecting matches and

00:31 that's where drainage comes in. Well part of the refurbishment work was that

00:35 improved drainage right so you'll see around the facility right now we redid

00:40 the gravel ring, we redid the pipe and so yes we are ready. I could say that we

00:44 could probably go as far we could restart cricket in about 20-30 minutes.

00:48 We are ready for this. The media is expected to be busy for the tournament

00:52 with many from abroad visiting these shores. Speaking of which this was a new

00:57 room built for the reporters. Regarding the comfort of the journalists Ramota

01:01 says that too has been catered for at the venue. We'll definitely have wireless

01:06 right now right so we have the commodity we have the multimedia ability right now

01:11 we have the screens on board there's definitely better connectivity throughout

01:14 the site. We have two new screens that was also installed ready for this for

01:18 that kind of integration so we have a dedicated scoreboard and a replay screen

01:22 so yeah we are we are up to scratch with that. With a lot of improvements made at

01:27 the facility Ramota has given the assurance that the Brian Lara Cricket

01:30 Academy is going to be used often and not turn into a white elephant.

01:35 Vinod Nawani, TV6 Sport

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