Facilities Notes: LCCA Will Get Floodlights

Int'l standard floodlights will be installed at the Lahore City Cricket Association ground to develop a "new culture of night cricket in the city." LCCA President Khawaja Nadim Ahmed said, "Night cricket has become quite popular, and people like to watch it at their leisure time, and that is the reason we are in the process to equip the arena with latest lights to start a new era of night cricket in Lahore," Pakistan. Ahmed said that he floated the idea of lights at a meeting with former PM Mian Nawaz Sharif who liked it and asked him to discuss it with Punjab Chief Minister Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif, "a keen lover of sports" (PAKISTAN TODAY, 10/23). ... Cambodia’s first taekwondo facility, the Booyoung Khmer Taekwondo Center, will be officially opened Friday "after six years of construction." Apart from offices and a meeting room, the center features "two large practice rooms for men and women." The building cost a reported $450,000 (PHNOM PENH POST, 10/23).