Matches under new floodlights in Silchar

Matches under new floodlights
SATANANDA BHATTACHARYA
Silchar T20 cricket
Hailakandi, Dec. 4: The District Sports Association (DSA), Silchar, will hold the first Twenty20 match at the Satindra Mohan Dev stadium under the newly installed floodlights on Saturday.
The secretary of the association, Babul Hore, said the T20 match would be played between Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd and Air India.
International players like Virendra Sehwag, Mahindra Singh Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Ishant Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Md Kaif, Robin Uthappa and Sourav Ganguly are expected to play in this match along with other national level players, DSA sources said.
The match will commence at 5pm.
Hore said all the international players, working for ONGC and Air India, were being contacted through Union heavy industries minister Sontosh Mohan Dev, who is the chief patron of the Silchar DSA, to participate in the match. Cricketer Kapil Dev will also be present..
The match is being organised to mark the inauguration of the floodlights and the Rs 87lakh NEC-funded Sontosh Mohan Dev cricket pavilion.
Hore said that it would be one of the biggest sporting extravaganzas for the people of Barak Valley. The Satindra Mohan Dev stadium is at present one of the second biggest sporting infrastructure in the state after those in Guwahati. source: the telegraph india