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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Sabina Park unveils major lighting upgrades ahead of Australia series

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Sport Desk
31 days ago
20250619
Sabina Park

Sabina Park

KINGSTON – Sabi­na Park, Ja­maica’s icon­ic crick­et venue, has re­ceived a ma­jor facelift with new state-of-the-art LED lights, just in time for the up­com­ing Aus­tralia se­ries.

The up­grade, cost­ing J$75 mil­lion, is set to rev­o­lu­tionise night crick­et in Ja­maica and bol­ster the sta­di­um’s rep­u­ta­tion as a pre­mier sport­ing des­ti­na­tion.

Speak­ing at the venue, Min­is­ter of Cul­ture, Gen­der, En­ter­tain­ment and Sport, Olivia Grange, hailed the new light­ing sys­tem as a game-chang­er.

“These lights are go­ing to make a world of dif­fer­ence. They will al­low us to host a se­ries of crick­et events, both day and night, el­e­vat­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence for play­ers and fans alike.”

Ja­maica Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (JCA) pres­i­dent Dr Dono­van Ben­nett praised the gov­ern­ment’s swift ac­tion, em­pha­sis­ing the ne­ces­si­ty of the up­grade.

“We need­ed these lights; with­out them, we couldn’t func­tion prop­er­ly, and we wouldn’t be an at­trac­tive venue for in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. The old light­ing sys­tem had been in­suf­fi­cient for day-night match­es, but the new LEDs will en­able Sabi­na Park to host high-pro­file games as ear­ly as Ju­ly. We have sev­en nights of crick­et sched­uled, in­clud­ing a pink-ball Test against Aus­tralia.

Be­yond the light­ing, Min­is­ter Grange an­nounced an­oth­er ma­jor ad­di­tion as a brand-new score­board, cour­tesy of the In­di­an gov­ern­ment is set to be in­stalled soon.

CMC


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