Hyderabad Cricket Association will host a World Cup match after a gap of 27 years. The last World Cup match in the city was when West Indies took on Zimbabwe at the floodlit Lal Bahadur Stadium.
For a long time, LB Stadium, or Fateh Maidan as it was more popularly called, was the main hub of cricketing activity even with the HCA office located on the premises.
But, the construction of the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium at Uppal, which was then on the outskirts of the city, has changed the contours of hosting national and international matches in terms of world-class facilities for the players, officials and the spectators.
