Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium

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Cricket World Cup 2011 ICC World Twenty20 2012

The Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium is a cricket stadium in Hambantota, Sri Lanka and named after the current president Mahinda Rajapaksa in the country. It was built for the Cricket World Cup 2011 and has a current capacity of 35,000 seats, which will be expanded to 60,000.

Infrastructure

The stadium, which will be extended for the ICC World Twenty20 in 2012, was built in 2009 for an estimated 9 million U.S. dollars. It should act as a part of a new business and sports center, which was illustrated with the bid to host the Commonwealth Games 2018. Currently, however, the surrounding infrastructure is sparse. Since the cost for the construction of stadiums for the World Cup the Association Sri Lanka Cricket overmatched that built stadiums were handed over to the military in November 2011. Since then, the Sri Lankan Army owner of the stadium. The two ends are called Thanamalwila End and Sooriyawewa End.

International Cricket

The first international match was the Sri Lankan Cricket Team on February 20, 2011 in this stadium from. At the World Cup 2011, two preliminary matches were held here, and for the World Twenty20 in 2012 are three preliminary round matches scheduled here.