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Eighteen cameras to cover every angle

Sports Reporter

29 August 1998


There will be as many as eighteen electronic eyes to provide the details of the action on the field during the coming Wills International Cup, which will be televised across the globe when the nine-nation cricket carnival commence at Dhaka from October 24.

World Tel, for whom it will be their second visit in Dhaka after the successful maiden assignment during the Independence Cup last year, have been endowed with the job to broadcast all the eight matches live from the Bangabandhu National Stadium. All nine Test-playing nations are taking part in the knock-out tournament, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to raise funds for the future development programme of the game.

It was learnt that the American-based company will use 18 cameras, four more than they used during the Independence Cup, including five super slow motion electronic eyes. Of the eighteen cameras, fourteen including two stump vision and a couple of fixed lenses square of the wicket for run out decisions, will be installed at the ground. Besides, like the previous occasion, one camera will be stationed atop the 24-storied neighbouring Shilpa Bank Bhaban and another on top of one of the flood-light towers for aerial view. Moreover, one camera will be placed underneath the electronic scoreboard at the western gallery of the stadium. It was also learnt that this time around their will be another camera for close looks of the commentators at the top floor of the VIP gallery.

Although it was earlier proposed that the opposite end of the VIP gallery, known as the Paltan end, will be named after former Indian Test cricketer Raman Lamba, who died at a local hospital after being struck on his head while fielding close during a league match last season at this very ground.


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Date-stamped : 29 Aug1998 - 18:26