Sri Lanka Cricket has outlined an ambitious plan to increase the number of
match-day tickets sold to 100,000 per Test series, over the next four years.
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president Thilanga Sumathipala said presently a three-Test series would draw an
aggregate of fewer than 40,000 spectators, but the board aims to identify
spectator-friendly Test venues and then improve facilities within those grounds
to attract a larger audience.Improvements to bathroom facilities and an increase
in the number of big screens and televisions will be among the ground upgrades.
SLC also announced a move towards online ticket sales, for which Indian company
BookMyShow has been contracted. SLC said online ticket sales will begin during
the Australia tour, but traditional ticket outlets will also be operational.When
spectators go to a match, they want to be guaranteed their seat, and for it to
be as easy a process as possible, Sumathipala said. We also want to make sure
the spectators are entertained during their time at the ground.The Galle Cricket
stadium, which is located close to the centre of town, ordinarily draws a
substantial Test-match crowd, while the Asgiriya Stadium had also been a
well-patronised venue during its years of operation. Sumathipala said this
suggested that venues within the city limits, where spectators may arrive and
leave as their day allows, will be prioritised as Test venues. Asgiriya has not
hosted a Test since 2007, but Sumathipala said SLC would look into upgrading
facilities there with a view to resuming international cricket at the venue.At
the moment, Galle is a successful venue, and SSC is successful, but I dont think
venues like Dambulla or the Premadasa Stadium are as successful, Sumathipala
said. The reason is, when people come in a bus, train or three-wheeler, and they
see someone is getting close to a fifty or a hundred, they want to come into the
ground and see that.Theres a culture of people participating in a Test match
whenever there is some excitement. We prefer to have the Test venues built up in
a different way from the limited-overs venues. It has to be done in a scientific
way. There also have to be facilities for women and children.
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Oct. 15 and figured there would be at least one TV in the bar area tuned to the
game.But on a fall Saturday, it was college football as far as the eye could
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to the baseball game. Upon noticing the Cleveland Indians T-shirt Zabas was
wearing, the bartender readily complied. She herself was a Cubs fan and was
hoping her team would face the Indians in the World Series.Zabas found a table
with prime sight line of the game and, for the next several hours, she ate wings
and watched as the Indians beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 2-1, to take a 2-0 lead
in the series. (They would eventually win the series in five.)After the final
out, Zabas paid her tab and started for the parking lot. As she stepped outside,
she felt the crispness of a fall day in Bend, Oregon, hit her face and breathed
in the fresh Northwest air.She was more than 2,000 miles from Cleveland, yet, in
this moment, her heart was filled with hometown pride.For most of her life,
Zabas was known as Sister Mary Assumpta and had a presence in Cleveland as tall
as the citys iconic Terminal Tower. She became a Catholic nun at the age of 17
and was a longtime member of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit -- an order that
ministers to the elderly at the Jennings Center for Older Adults, which serves
as a retirement community and nursing home in a Cleveland suburb.Sister Mary
Assumpta had a claim to fame in Cleveland as one of the most diehard Indians
fans in town.She and her fellow sisters were fixtures at ball games at the old
Cleveland Stadium, where it was hard to miss a group of nuns dressed in full
habit eating hot dogs, yelling at umps and cheering on the Tribe with fervor.At
the end of the games, if we lost, people who had a little too much alcohol would
say, Oh, Sister, you didnt pray hard enough, and wed turn around and say, Prayer
isnt just our job, Zabas said.It seemed no amount of prayer could help the
Indians during their 1985 season when the team lost 102 games, so the nuns
figured chocolate chip cookies might at least lift the players spirits. After
the All-Star break that year, they began taking a batch to the team at the
beginning of every homestand.It was just to let them know that somebody cared,
Zabas said with a laugh.Over time, it became tradition for the Sisters of the
Holy Spirit to bake a special batch of chocolate chip cookies for the Indians
home opener each year.Strikeouts were baked in the cookies for the pitchers and
home runs into the cookies for the hitters, explained Zabas.But sometimes they
got them mixed up and would eat the wrong ones, she joked.Sister Mary Assumptas
celebrity grew when she had a cameo in the movie Major League wearing her habit
and an Indians jacket. She got her own Upper Deck baseball card, a write-up in
People magazine and served as a special World Series correspondent for a local
Cleveland TV station and CBS This Morning in 1995.But as much as she was
recognized for her devotion to the Indians, it was only a small partt of Sister
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her career as a high school English teacher, she transitioned into healthcare
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small group of sisters and worked tirelessly to keep the order thriving.
However, her unending service to others and penchant for self-described
overextension eventually took its toll.My soul was burning out, she said.So
after nearly 50 years as a Catholic nun, she decided to leave her religious
order and took a job with the Sacred Art of Living ministry in Oregon, which
works with caregivers and the dying.In the summer of 2013, Zabas set off for her
new life in the first car she ever owned -- a Chevrolet Sonic. Prior to that,
she always shared a vehicle with one with the other sisters. She was no longer
wearing a habit and had taken the name Maryhelen, comprised of her given name
Helen and decided to add Mary to it.Along the way from Ohio to Oregon, Zabas
made stops at national monuments and other attractions, including the Crazy
Horse Memorial in South Dakota. It was there that she met a member of the
Cherokee tribe, who bestowed upon her an American Indian name: She Who Laughs at
the Unknown.It was fitting as Zabas life has been guided by a certain
fearlessness. Whenever she gets a bold idea, one way or another, shell find a
way to make it happen -- especially if it involves helping someone in need. For
instance, there was the time she turned the sisters cookie baking into a
business, Nun Better, to support the endowment of the Jennings Center for Older
Adults.To this day, at the age of 71, she still lives life at a vigorous clip.
In fact, prayer and baseball might be the only two things in Zabas life that
force her to slow down.Theres nothing fast about a ball game. With no game clock
or time limit, theres only the ebb and flow of balls and strikes. Its
essentially a chess match, and the drama is in the details, which Zabas loves.I
learned [the game] from my mother, she said. Ive learned the nuances and know
that its a game of strategy that a lot of people dont understand.One of the
difficult parts about being so far from Cleveland is no longer being able to
watch the Indians regularly on TV or go to games at Progressive Field, Zabas
admitted.I just long to see a baseball game, she said.She gets her baseball fix
by attending an occasional Bend Elks game, the amateur baseball team in town,
and always makes room in her schedule for the Indians when she visits Cleveland
during the season.This past summer there, she did something all too familiar.
She whipped up a batch of chocolate chip cookies and delivered them to the
Indians.Perhaps the hitters and pitchers finally got the right cookies this
season with the team only one game away from its first World Series title since
1948.Whatever the outcome, Zabas will always keep her faith in the Indians even
if she has to do it from afar.I will not switch my fandom no matter where I
live, she said.
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