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Indianapolis World Sports Park is an American sporting complex located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The site covers at the former Post Road Community Park and consists of three multi-use fields for the sports of cricket, lacrosse, hurling, rugby, Australian rules football, and Gaelic football. The $5.1 million facility was completed in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=City of Indianapolis )〕 ==History== Announced in 2013 as an initiative of Mayor Greg Ballard, the facility was slated to host the U.S. cricket men's national championship in August 2014 as its inaugural event, but city officials canceled their three-year hosting contract with the national cricketing group in May of that year, citing "deteriorated" communication about sponsorships, publicity, and other event planning details. The city said the breakdown between the groups began after U.S. cricket director Darren Beazley stepped down in March. Despite losing the national cricket tournament, city officials completed the project, scaling back the number of fields from five〔 to three and eliminating plans for a concession pavilion, maintenance building and additional parking, which helped the project come in about $1 million under budget. With the changes, one of the three fields was not built to "international standards for professional play", according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.〔 At the complex's first major cricket tournament, only one field was approved for international play, as it had a natural-turf oval; the secondary field is synthetic. Unlike larger facilities like Central Broward Regional Park, the facility lacks floodlights, a pavilion, a clubhouse or changing rooms for players, media area, concession stands, and bleachers for fans. The project was controversial in Indianapolis. The facility's funding came from the city's "RebuildIndy" initiative, which was created to fund infrastructure improvements. City council members criticized the mayor and the project, saying the money would be better spent on items like roads, sidewalks, and curbs. Also, the project was seen as an extravagant expense for a city which at the time was facing a $40 million budget deficit〔 and a crime wave with an understaffed police department.〔 The complex is located in a residential area on the east side of the city with several houses on the north boundary within a batsman's striking range. During construction, irrigation pumping at the park was alleged to have depleted several nearby residential water wells. The city lowered some residential pumps and replaced at least one well, costing about $15,000. In May 2015, the park hosted its first international cricket event, the 2015 ICC Americas Twenty20 Division One tournament, after hosting local and regional cricket matches in 2014. The U.S. cricket team and the national teams from Bermuda, Canada, and Suriname participated. The top two teams, Canada and USA, advanced to the 2015 World Twenty20 Qualifier in Ireland and Scotland, a feeder tournament for the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nisarg Patel, Jasdeep Singh get USA call-ups )〕 Bermuda was relegated to ICC Americas Twenty20 Division Two. Total attendance for the 24-match tournament was fewer than 1,000 spectators, with 60 spectators reported at one game. The main cricket field was hailed as being of Test-match quality, according to the New Zealand groundsman who worked at the facilty during the six-day T20 tournament in 2015. "It's a full sand carpet outfield which is pretty much the world's best standard practice for building outfields. The drainage is phenomenal," he said. Cricketers David Hemp and Nicholas Standford respectively praised the outfield as "magnificent" and the facility as "excellent". Despite the praise, author Peter Della Penna noted that "most other aspects outside the ropes were makeshift accommodations that would only be suitable at amateur level", citing lack of standard amenities for players, fans, and media.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indianapolis World Sports Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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