Academy Ground to get removable dome

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has come up with a new project to tackle the challenges that hinder training during the monsoon season, revealing plans to build another indoor facility at the Academy Ground in Mirpur featuring the amenities expected of a modern indoor facility, including a removable dome.

Such structures are common in countries such as New Zealand and Australia, where the monsoon seasons put a rope on training and the BCB appears to have taken initiative to eliminate the problem that players in Bangladesh have faced for years.

Facilities include artificial turf on the ground and a dome that can cover the ground to keep the rain out.

BCB Grounds Committee chairman Mahbub Anam announced the plans on Wednesday.

"We are going to build a Greenhouse-effector training facility, like the ones in New Zealand and Australia, at the BCB Academy Ground. We are going to have 20 wickets inside, where we can train as usual in the monsoon season. It will be built by June," Anam told the reporters.

"We can call it an indoor facility but, having said that, we can remove the dome in other seasons. And of course, during the monsoon season, we can install the dome and train," he added. "The important instruments will start to arrive in late March and we will have them here by April. We would install those in May and may use the facility by June. I hope we can use the facility this monsoon."