Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday (September 1, 2025) laid the inspiration stone for the development of the first international cricket stadium within the former warfare torn area of Jaffna.
Speaking on the ceremony, Mr. Dissanayake stated Sri Lanka, which was all the time within the information for improper causes such because the civil warfare, the financial disaster and corruption, discovered cricket as the one excellent news supplier.
“I would dearly love to see the Sri Lanka team represented by all communities — Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim”, he stated in his handle.
“The Jaffna international cricket stadium will become the country’s seventh international cricket venue and the fifth stadium equipped with floodlights,” the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) stated in a press launch.
The floor might be constructed throughout 48 acres that includes 10 centre wickets with boundary distance up to 80 metres, exceeding international requirements, the SLC added.
“The venue will have a spectator capacity of 40,000, positioning it as a premier cricket destination in the region,” it stated.
Jaffna, the cultural capital of the Tamil minority, was below a debilitating civil warfare from the mid Eighties.
In May 2009, the Sri Lankan Army declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which for 3 many years had run a parallel administration within the northern and japanese a part of the nation of their quest to arrange a separate Tamil homeland.
