City's Old Campion Cricket Ground is now all set to host the National Cricket Tournament. The new pitch was inaugurated here on Tuesday. For the tournament the pitch of the ground is renovated. With the new format provided by International Pitch Curator of Sports and Youth Welfare Department the field pitch and the the outfield were renovated.
The new pitch was inaugurated by Director Sports and Youth Welfare SL Thoussen. He played a cricket match there. After that the first match was played between Mayank Cricket Academy and Arora Cricket Academy. Thoussen introduced the players from both the teams and congratulated them and gave them best wishes. On this occasion, Joint Director B S. Yadav, District Sports Officer Bhopal Jones Chacko, Assistant Director Vikas Kharadkar, Mayank Cricket Academy's Sushil Thakur, Suresh Senani of Arora Cricket Academy and other officials including Hemant Kapur, journalists and players were present.
Sports Director SL Thoussen said that the government is committed to the development of sports and the department is taking action in this direction promptly. He told that during his first tour, the players urged to co-ordinate and renew the old campion ground, they were assured that after the rain the ground will be renovated and it will be given a new facelift and now this ground for the game completely ready.
Meanwhile, All India Civil Services Football competition organized by Sports and Youth Welfare Four league matches were played on the city stadium ground here on Tuesday. Five league matches were played at the Motilal Nehru Stadium. RSB Mumbai defeated Orrisa by 9-0, RSB Indore defeated Karnataka by 10-2, RSB Bangalore defeated Chandigarh by 27-0, RSB Ahmadabad defeated by Uttar Pradesh by 9-0 points.
Similarly, in the matches played on the Motilal Nehru Stadium, Delhi scored 8-0, Kerala defeated Uttar Pradesh by 7-1, Haryana defeated Tamil Nadu 1-0, Pondicherry defeated Delhi 4-2 and Maharashtra defeated Telangana by 4-0.