GCA To Construct Cricket Oval In The Volta Region

The Ghana Cricket Association (GCA) has promised to construct a Cricket Oval in the Volta Region, should the region acquire a land for the facility.

The region has become the eye of Cricket in Ghana, and have won an award for developing the game despite doing their first ever introductory course in May 2015, after which they had first inter school competition in August under the supervision of the GCA.

They then had the opportunity to learn how to score and umpire the game in December 2015.

In the years 2016, they organized an Easter fun games which gave the GCA the opportunity to see the potential players and thus proposed the idea of a cricket pitch, should a land be acquired.

Henry Benjamin Ackom, the Cricket Operations officer of the GCA had talks with Togbe Howusu Palmas, who is the Chairman of the region and plans are underway.

The Ghana Cricket Association, and the International Cricket Council (ICC) their International body, is ready to do anything that will help develop and spread the game.

As the GCA awaits the readiness of the region to get the pitch done, Secretary of the region Victor Tetteh has confirmed that the Volta Region will continue to use the various parks for training.

“You know the pitch on which Cricket is played, we don’t have it here. It is only in Accra and Kumasi that we can find one.

“The Ghana Cricket Association is planning to build one for us here in Ho. So until that time, we will be using the normal parks to prepare our teams and for our training.

“We can then say we have our own Cricket pitch when the GCA fulfils their promise which I believe they would as and when we get the land”, Tetteh said in an interview.

The GCA already have pitches in Accra, Achimota and Obuasi, one in Volta will expand the catchment area of Cricket and it’s love by people.

GCA To Construct Cricket Oval In The Volta Region