London’s Olympic Stadium is likely to be one of the 12 venues earmarked to host 48 games during the 2019 cricket World Cup, the Daily Mail reported.
The London Stadium, located in East London’s Stratford area, was the venue for the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and staged all the athletics events during the tournament.
According to the report the famed venue will host two World Cup games between England and Australia and the other likely to feature the high-profile India-Pakistan tie.
With a capacity of 60,000, the stadium can hold twice the number of people than Lord’s, which is the biggest dedicated cricket stadium in the UK in terms of capacity.
The report stated that Steve Elworthy, managing director of the 2019 World Cup, has travelled to New Zealand to study the technology for drop-in cricket pitches that will be incorporated for Stratford.
As a trial run, the stadium is likely to host a Twenty20 fixture involving County team Essex.
The stadium is currently home to Premier League side West Ham, and will need a bit of tweaking to get the right dimensions of the cricket ground.
England Cricket Board chief executive Tom Harrison said: “It would be an amazing statement to have 60,000 people in a ground in the UK watching World Cup cricket.
The London Stadium has the right dimensions. There are not a lot of other stadiums that have the capacity to fit minimum boundaries in.”
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