Guanggong International Cricket Stadium
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| Location | Guangzhou, Guangdong, China | ||||
| Establishment | 2010 | ||||
| Capacity | 12,000 | ||||
| Owner | Chinese Cricket Association | ||||
| Tenants | China | ||||
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| Source: Cricinfo | |||||
The City Forex Stadium (Chinese: 广工板球场) is an international cricket stadium in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is used mostly for Australian football and cricket. It also sometimes hosts rugby tens, rugby union and touch rugby. Guangzhou Scorpions and GZ United are the tenants of the stadium.
Stadium is located in the Guangdong University of Technology in the Higher Education Mega Centre and encompassing an area of 6355 m2, with seating for 12,000 spectators. The stadium hosted the first international-level cricket ever played in China.
It has been granted by the International Cricket Council to host One Day International and Twenty20 cricket matches.[1] It was established in 2010. It hosted the cricket matches played in the 2010 Asian Games.[2] It also hosted the 2012 Women's Asia Cup Cricket tournament.
Work on the stadium started in May 2008. However, even until August 2009, the ground was little more than a flattened patch of mud. The ground now has a full-time Bangladeshi curator in Jasimuddin came in from the Kinrara Oval in Malaysia.
The ground was designed by Chinese architects with materials sourced from Guangdong Province, the wicket square using clay from Shaanxi Province in central China, the certified seed turf being imported by the Chinese Cricket Association from the United States.
References
- ↑ "Guanggong Cricket Stadium". Cricinfo.
- ↑ "Asian Games Cricket 2010".
Coordinates: 23°2′29″N 113°22′51″E / 23.04139°N 113.38083°E