Wed, Jul 15, 2026
Wed, Jul 15, 2026
CPL 2024: Damaged underground electrical cable caused temporary floodlight outage
An inoperable floodlight caused a delay in play during the Men's 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League eliminator match between Trinbago Knight Riders and Barbados Royals at Providence Stadium on October 01, 2024 in Georgetown, Guyana. (Photo by Ashley Allen - CPL T20/CPL T20 via Getty Images)
See below joint statement by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the Guyana Power and Light Inc.
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) wish to inform the public of the loss of power to three of the six floodlights at the National Stadium during the nineteenth over of the match between Trinidad Knight Riders and the Barbados Royal tonight.
All CPL matches at the Providence Stadium, Guyana was successfully powered from independent Generating Sets located in the National Stadium and not by GPL grid.
GPL has been on standby at all matches to render technical assistance to the Stadium at all times.
During the nineteenth over, three (3) floodlights lost power causing a disruption to the match.
The GPL technical team on standby immediately began rendering assistance and restored power to two of three floodlights on the same circuit.
The Stadium’s Technical staff and GPL worked assiduously to restore power to the third floodlight which had a technical fault with the underground cable feeding power to that Floodlight, a substitute cable was installed quicky to have this floodlight operational.
This was achieved around 10:51 pm.
The technical team remedied the problem and the game resumed.
Additional technical assessment will be done immediately after the game to avoid any reoccurrence.
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