Will ensure no outage, no snakes in stadium during India-SL ODI: ACA

The Assam Cricket Association is doing everything it can to ensure that there is no power outage when India plays Sri Lanka at its stadium next week. Officials said the stadium will host the first ODI of a three-match series between the two countries on January 10. The Association has enlisted the help of an NGO to ensure that there is no presence of snakes in the field like in the T20 match between India and South Africa last October which was halted by a partial power outage. Speaking about the steps taken by the Association to prevent any problem with lights, its President Taranga Gogoi said "There was some technical problem with one of the floodlights towers in the India's match we have already initiated the work to use LED bulbs for all the floodlights, but as installing new bulbs will take about a month and there is not enough time, the existing floodlights will be used for the January 10 match all the wiring and other technical aspects of the floodlight towers as well as entire the stadium are being thoroughly checked to ensure no repeat of the glitch witnessed during the India's match." Gogoi said the stadium had plunged into partial darkness during the second innings of the India's match on October 2 last year when one of the four floodlight towers went off halting play