greater noida the shaheed vijay singh parthik sports stadium in greater noida is gearing up to host several cricket matches in march 2017 on the sporty calendar are t20s one day internationals and the fifth round of an icc intercontinental cup said the newly appointed chairman of the afghanistan cricket board acb atif mashal on monday mashal was in greater noida to meet deepak agarwal chief executive officer ceo of greater noida industrial development authority gnida and on a familiarization trip of the sports stadium after he was appointed by the afghanistan president in december 2016 the newlybuilt greater noida cricket stadium had officially become the home ground for afghanistan cricketers in december 2015 acb is afghanistans representative at the international cricket council icc and an associate member of icc since june 2013 it is also a member of asian cricket councilas per mashal afghanistan will host ireland in a series of nine matches across formats in greater noida their adopted home ground in india in march 2017 the series consisting of five odis three twenty20s and a fourday icc intercontinental cup fixture will be played from march 8 to 31 we are looking forward to hosting the irish team i am sure we will see some great cricket said agarwal these matches will certainly be part of the pathway to a great relationship with both countries we hope to hold more matches in the future he addedaccording to gnida the dates for the cricket matches have already been finalized while the t20 matches will be held on march 8 10 and 12 the odis will be held on march 15 17 19 22 and 24 said rajeev tyagi general manager projects gnida tyagi further said that the greater noida stadium will also host the fifth round of the international cricket council icc intercontinental cup he said this tournament will be played between march 28 and 31 he said