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Ahead of the much-anticipated ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup matches astatine the Dr. YSR ACA-VDCA International Cricket Stadium, scheduled to statesman adjacent week, the territory medication conducted a readying and preparedness gathering to reappraisal and finalise arrangements.
The gathering was chaired by District Collector M. N. Harendhira Prasad and ACA Chief Operating Officer Girish Dongre, and attended by Commissioner of Police Shankabrata Bagchi, GVMC Commissioner Ketan Garg, ACA Councillor Vishnu Dantu, and different elder officials.
Mr. Harendhira Prasad stressed the request for uninterrupted powerfulness proviso with robust backup systems astatine the venue. He besides instructed officials to undertake beautification works on squad question routes to heighten the city’s image.
Mr. Bagchi emphasised the request for aggregate ticketing options, including integer M-Tickets, e-Tickets, and carnal tickets. He called for reinforced information astatine summons counters, the instauration of parking QR codes, installation of CCTVs successful parking areas, and an upgraded centralised nationalist code system. He added that women constabulary unit would beryllium deployed for the information of visiting teams.
Mr. Dongre announced that ICC and BCCI officials volition be the marquee India–Australia lucifer connected October 12. He said complimentary drinking h2o facilities would beryllium provided for spectators and designated parking arranged astatine B Ground, V Convention, and Sanketika College.
Tickets are disposable connected the BookMyShow app, priced astatine ₹150 for the India–Australia clash and ₹100 for different fixtures. Offline tickets volition besides beryllium sold astatine 5 counters. Mr. Dongre assured that the ACA would coordinate information measures successful relation with the territory medication and police.
Visakhapatnam volition big 5 matches of the tournament, including 2 India fixtures. India volition look South Africa connected October 9 and Australia connected October 12. The different matches are South Africa vs Bangladesh (October 13), Australia vs Bangladesh (October 16), and England vs New Zealand (October 26).
The Indian women’s squad has already held a bid of signifier sessions astatine the stadium successful September to fine-tune preparations. While Visakhapatnam has ne'er hosted a Women’s World Cup lucifer before, it did signifier a Men’s World Cup fixture successful 1996 erstwhile Australia bushed Kenya by 97 runs. The past Women’s World Cup lucifer successful Andhra Pradesh was successful 1997 astatine Vijayawada, wherever England defeated Pakistan by 230 runs.
