LED Lighting for Cricket Field & Stadium

Requirement of Cricket Ground Lighting

The lighting requirement of cricket field is demanding. The lux level required varies different types of cricket stadium. Generally, if the court is for international matches, the lux value will be higher according to the cricket lighting’s compatibility guide.

1. Lux Level (Brightness) Requirement

For general practice and recreational cricket stadiums, we need 250 to 350 lux, which is sufficient for players to have mild competition between the team members. Then, 500 to 750 lux is needed for professional matches. The brightness is higher because the movement is more vigorous. High intensity lighting invigorates the cricket players and thus enhances their performance. For the cricket stadium holding international broadcasting tournament, it takes around the highest standard of 1500 to 2500 lux. It is because it provides clearer environment for photo and video shooting.

2. Total Power of Cricket Field Lighting Needed

Since the radius of the field is about 70 meters, the area is 15,400 m². Take 750 lux (professional matches) as an example, we will need 15400 x 750 = 11550000 lumens. Since our LED lights have 140 lumens per watt, the minimum power is 11550000 / 140 = 82500 watts. It is a preliminary calculation only. It is strongly recommended to contact our engineers to get the free, professional lighting design opinion.

Lighting Design for Cricket Stadium

To increase the chance of winning the cricket ground lighting tenders, we need to have precise and presentable photometric analysis. LedsMaster is experienced in handling the projects of sports and stadium lighting for 12 years. We help our clients win countless sports lighting biddings like football, rugby, tennis, badminton, and so on.

The above photometric lighting design is consisted of false color rendering (left) and value chart (right). Some of the designer will also provide you with the isolines for the cricket ground. We can see majority of the area is in red, which represents 2625 lux. The lux level distribution is indicated in the value chart. It is about 2000 to 3000 lux, and thus this is a professional sports field for the international tournament. If you would like to get the analysis report for your project, please feel free to contact us.

LED Lights for Cricket Field (2021 Premium Upgrade)

Our LED cricket lights are equipped with 15W LED individual chips. They have luminous efficiency of 140 lm/W. By making comparison with metal halide. MH has around 70 lm/W. It saves at least 75% energy and electricity expenses. We adopted the advanced chips to provide focus lighting beam on turf. Our engineers will also make the fine adjustment on optics. Each case will be unique, and cricket field lights are changed. For instance, the power, beam angle, and anti-glare system.

1. Lighting for Indoor Cricket Court

Apart from outdoor sports field, we also offer indoor cricket court lighting. Heat is an issue for indoor ceiling lights. Heat is accumulated during operation of luminaries. If the temperature is too high, the electronics inside the floodlights will be damages. To solve this problem, we develop high-end thermal management system. The fins have very large surface area to let the heat conducts away.

2. Anti-glare and Flicker-free Lighting for Televised Cricket Field

For the outdoor stadiums holding the ICC Cricket World Cup, the lighting fixture should have the highest standard. One of the criteria is flicker-free illumination. Our LED lighting solution supports 5000 to 6000 Hz high speed camera because the flickering rate is less than 0.3% under this filming frequency. The change of lumen is negligible under the camera. The anti-glare help reduce the dazzling effect on the players and audience inside cricket stadium, as well as reduce the light trespass & pollution.

3. Improved Lighting Uniformity

Better lighting uniformity. It is not desirable to have lights suddenly dimmed or too bright. It makes the eyes feel uncomfortable. Our top-of-the-line optics can enhance the uniformity value to 0.8, which satisfies requirement of USACA. Anti-glare optics is another strength. Cricket field accommodate thousands of spectators. Low glare luminary will not irritate their eyes. They can enjoy the clear vision throughout the matches. The optics also supports high speed photography up to 5,000 Hz. It is the high quality, flicker-free luminary.

4. Our Sports LED Lights have Modular Design

What if unexpected error occurs? The LED cricket stadium lights may go off because of wrong wire connection or serious natural disasters. To repair the luminary, all you need is remove the broken portion and then replace them by a new unit. We provide you with free modular to install. Therefore, you can save maintenance time and cost – almost instant repair.

5. What is the Running Cost of Cricket Stadium Lighting?

Assuming the lux required is 750 and we need 82500 watt, the cost of running the cricket stadium lighting system is (82500 watt x 8 hours / 1000) x $0.12 kWh = $79.2 per day if you use 8 hours per day, or $1740 per month (for 22 days). This is cost of using LED lights. If your existing lighting systems is using halogen, we will need $17400 per month on lighting electricity bill because the energy efficiency of halogen flood light is 10 times less than LED.

6. Main Product Specification

Model number: LS-FLN1000

Ingress protection rating: IP66

Storage temperature: -40°C to 60°C

Power input: 90-265 VAC, 50-60 Hz

Beam angle: 25°, 40°, 60°, 90°

Color temperature: 2800-7500K

Color rendering index: 80

Cricket Field Lighting Questions & Answers

1. Do Floodlights in Cricket Ground Use a lot of Electricity?

Some stadium owners may concern about running cost of the cricket field lights. We would expect that the electricity cost can be dropped dramatically after replacing the old lighting fixtures. Among LED, metal halide, halogen and mercury vapor, LED flood lights use lesser electricity because of its higher energy efficiency.

Our LED lights have 140 lumens per watt, which is two times of traditional HID lights, & ten times of halogen flood lights! For instance, a 1,000 watt LED produces more-or-less the same lumens of a 10,000 watt halogen flood lamp.

Apart from lower power consumption, another advantage of using LED on cricket stadium is that lesser heat is produced. If the ambient temperature rises too high due to high power lighting, the batsman, bowler, wicket-keeper, other players & spectators would become uncomfortable, which affect the user experience a lot.

Believe it or not, almost 95% of energy is used to generate heat for halogen bulbs. We can imagine how hot the cricket pitch would be. Nevertheless, LED just have around 5% energy loss due to heat.

2. How Long Do the Floodlights last?

Before replacing the lighting of cricket stadium, some may also worry about if the new lights can last longer than the old ones. Apart from the cost of buying the new lamps, we need to also spend a lot on installation. In fact, our LED flood lights have 80,000 hours life span. In other words, if you are turning on the lamps for 6 hours per day, it lasts for 36.5 years.

Comparing with the low life span of halogen (~1000 to 2000 hours) and metal halide (~5000 to 10000 hours), we can save a lot of maintenance cost after doing the LED replacement.

3. How Much Does it Cost to Leave the Stadium Lights on All Day?

Your stadium lighting running cost would be much higher if you select the wrong type of luminaires. For metal halide lights, the total power consumption is around 400,000 watt. Thus, the cost to leave the lights on for 24 hours is 400,000W x 24 hours x $0.12/1000 = $1152. For halogen flood lights, the electricity cost on lighting is 1,000,000W x 24 hours x $0.12/1000 = $2880. We can see the power consumption is higher in halogen because it has lower energy efficiency. A million watt halogen light is required to produce the same brightness of metal halide. How about LED lights?

Our 100,000 watt LED is equivalent to 400,000 watt halogen and 1,000,000 watt HID. Thus, the running cost per 100,000W lighting is $288. We can see a huge difference between the running cost of LED and conventional lighting. By retrofitting the lighting fixtures to LED, we can save tones of money to light up the cricket field.

If you would like to get more info about cricket stadium lighting, please feel free to shoot us a message at email beatus@ledsmaster.com. We are looking forward to your message.