Both teams arriving in Nagpur on Wednesday, city cops to create ‘Green Corridor’ to avoid traffic jams
Nagpur: Rain threat loomed large over the Second T20 match to be played between India and Australia on Friday, September 23 VCA’s Jamtha Stadium in Nagpur. On Wednesday, just two days before the match, light drizzles drenched Nagpur since the early morning with dark clouds hovering all day. The weatherman has also predicted spells of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. In the past few days, many parts of Nagpur had witnessed moderate rain.
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Teams arriving today:
Team India and Australia will be arriving in Nagpur by Chartered flight at 3.20 pm on Wednesday, informed Vidarbha Cricket Association through a press release. The teams will be playing the second match of the three-match T20I series at VCA Stadium Jamtha on September 23. Team India will be staying at Hotel Radisson Blu while Australia will stay at Le Meridien.
If rains permit, both the teams would be practising on Thursday at Jamtha. Australia would practice from 1 pm to 4 pm while India will be practising under lights from 5 pm to 8 pm. Meanwhile, the redemption counter for online ticket holders is functional at VCA Civil lines, Nagpur from 10 am to 7 pm.
‘Green corridor’:
According to reports, a special traffic arrangement plan has been carved out by police officials to avoid traffic jams during the India-Australia T20 cricket match on Friday. The police will create a ‘green corridor’ for movement of vehicles from Jamtha to Rahate Colony Square without any delay.
Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar chaired a meeting of top police officials for discussing point-to-point security and traffic arrangements on Tuesday. A ‘Green Corridor’ is a special traffic-free route for moving of vehicles in one direction. Signals of the squares will be operated manually by the police personnel during the ‘green corridor’. CP Kumar informed reporters that the movement would be monitored through Command and Control Centre to avoid traffic congestion after the match. Quick Response Team personnel will be deployed on the route from the hotels, where the teams are staying, to VCA’s Jamtha Stadium for the security of the players.
Police personnel will be deployed among the viewers in plain clothes to ensure that no untoward incident takes place in the stadium. A total of 254 CCTV cameras have been installed to monitor every movement in the Jamtha area. It also includes four mobile surveillance vehicles. As per the plan, whopping 2,000 police personnel including seven Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs), 10 Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs), 35 Police Inspectors, 138 Assistant Inspectors of Police (APIs) and Police Sub-Inspectors (PSIs) will be deployed in the stadium during the match, the CP said. More than 40 metal detectors, door frame monitors would be installed at all entry points as security measures.
