St George’s Park invests millions in new LED lights before first day-night Test
Almost R40m has been spent on other improvements at the ground‚ including a new scoreboard and drainage system
The home of cricket in SA has been been pimped to the tune of almost R67m and is ready to roll into a future more than four times as dazzling as its illustrious past."The old lady is really looking good‚" Mark Williams‚ the CEO of the Warriors and the Eastern Province Cricket Board‚ said from his office at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth.New floodlights have been installed at a cost of R27m, accThe upgrades should add to the occasion that will unfold at St George’s Park on December 26 — when SA host Zimbabwe in not only the first day-night‚ pink-ball Test in SA but the first four-day Test anywhere.Whatever you think of all that new-fangledness‚ it does have a certain symmetry with the fact that the first Test played in SA was against England at St George’s Park in March 1889.There could be another echo of the past, in December: it took England only two days to win that first match‚ and seven years later the English again needed just a couple of days to get the job done in St Geor...
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