Updated August 2026 · Chalisgaon, Maharashtra
ChampCourts built a three-sport riverfront complex at Chalisgaon, Maharashtra — badminton and pickleball in 8-layer acrylic, box cricket on artificial turf, inside GI fencing with LED floodlighting, across roughly 4,700 sqft. Indicative bands: acrylic on a new base from Rs 155/sqft, the caged turf arena Rs 8–11 lakh, ex-GST. Get a free itemised estimate →
Most enquiries name one sport. This one named three. Badminton, pickleball and box cricket on a single plot beside the Titur river at Chalisgaon, which stops being a surfacing job and becomes a scheduling one. Three surface systems, four trades, one mobilisation, and an order of work that has to hold. What follows is that order, stage by stage, with our own site photographs at the stage they belong to.
What did ChampCourts build at Chalisgaon?
Three sports on one riverfront platform in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra: a badminton court and a pickleball court finished in 8-layer acrylic, and a caged box cricket arena floored in artificial turf. Roughly 4,700 sqft in total, wrapped in GI fencing and lit for evening play. The complex is almost complete.
The client is a private developer. What they built sits on the Titur riverfront as a public amenity, which is why it reads as a town facility rather than a gated one in every photograph. Concrete, structural steel, acrylic surfacing and turf all landed on the same plot. A single-sport court is a straight line: base, coat, mark, hand over. Three surface systems is not. Get the order wrong and one trade wrecks the finished work of another, and on this site there were four chances to do exactly that.
Why does an open riverfront site change how you plan the build?
Because there is no boundary to work behind. A riverside public plot has open sightlines, public footfall, and a railing where a compound wall would normally be. The enclosure therefore has to be priced and programmed as part of the build, not bolted on once the courts look finished.
On a school or society site the perimeter already exists and the court is dropped inside it. Here the perimeter is the project. Box cricket on an open riverfront is unplayable without a cage, because a mistimed shot leaves the plot and ends up in the river or on a public path. The acrylic courts need the same containment at a lower height. So fencing is not an add-on line at the bottom of the estimate. It is a structural item quoted alongside the courts, at Rs 480/rft onwards for the 6 ft class, ex-GST. The open aspect decides lighting too. Floodlights go on both long sides of a court, never on the baselines, so nobody is looking into a lamp down the line of play. Final cost depends on site condition, location and scope. Every figure here is indicative.
Why acrylic for the courts but turf for the box cricket?
Because the surface follows the ball and the shoe, not the budget. Badminton and pickleball need a hard court with a true bounce and enough grip for short, sharp footwork, and that is textured acrylic over rigid concrete. Box cricket is a caged game full of dives and full-blooded hitting. That is turf.
Swap them and both sports get worse. Turf under a shuttle kills the footwork and the bounce that the BWF Laws of Badminton assume, and a pickleball on turf simply does not come up: the USA Pickleball game is built around a hard-court bounce off a 44 × 20 ft playing area. Acrylic inside a box cricket cage is the opposite mistake. Brutal on dives, unforgiving over three-hour pay-and-play blocks, hard on the ball. Outdoor acrylic has no direct equivalent of EN 14904, the European standard for indoor sports floors, so it is judged on what you can count instead. The two systems also sit on different money, and they must never be blended into one per-sqft figure. Acrylic coating runs Rs 65/sqft onwards over a Rs 90/sqft PCC base. Turf is its own band at Rs 115/sqft onwards for supply and laying. Quote a mixed site at one blended rate and you have hidden which sport is driving the cost.
Why did the steel cage go up before a single coat of colour?
Two reasons, and both are about protecting finished work. A PCC base has to cure for 28 days before it can be surfaced, which is a free window for steelwork. And erecting an enclosure means welding, grinding, drilling and dropped tools. None of that belongs over a finished acrylic court.
Buyers almost always assume the court is finished first and the cage goes around it afterwards, because that is how a finished court looks in a photograph. On site it runs the other way. The base goes in, the steel goes up while the concrete cures to IS 456 practice for plain and reinforced concrete, and surfacing only starts on a slab that is clean, dry and still open to work from every side. Do it the other way and you pay twice: once for protection sheeting, once for touch-ups that never quite match. On a three-sport site that saving compounds, because the same crew and the same scaffold serve the court enclosure and the box cricket cage in one visit. Ask to see that order in any multi-sport quote.
How does an 8-layer acrylic court actually get built up?
Eight layers over a cured M20 PCC base on a 70 mm granular sub-base: primer, base coats, cushion coats, top colour coats and finally line marking. Each coat is squeegeed out by hand, edge to edge, and has to dry before the next one goes down.
The layer count is the part a buyer can actually audit, which is why we publish it. An 8-layer system carries more cushion and more colour than a 5-layer economy build, and that is where the texture, the non-slip grip and the 5–7 year service life before a recoat come from. Underneath, the specification does not move: M20 grade plain cement concrete over a 70 mm granular sub-base, cured 28 days before anything is applied to it. Skip the cure and the coating fails from below, whatever the layer count says on the invoice. Colours are picked at this stage rather than earlier, because the colour coats are the last thing down before the lines. Application is manual throughout. Applicators travel with the job, so the same hands coat every court on the site.
When do the lines get marked, and why so late?
Line marking is the last acrylic operation, after every colour coat has cured. The lines are masked out with tape, painted in, and the tape is lifted while the paint is still green. Mark too early and the next colour coat buries or bleeds the line you just paid for.
On a shared site this stage carries an extra decision: whose lines go down, and in what colour hierarchy. Badminton and pickleball have different footprints, 52 × 25 ft with run-off against 60 × 30 ft, so where two schemes share one slab the primary sport takes the dominant colour and the secondary sport a contrasting one. That is settled before a roll of tape is opened. Marking is quoted per scheme, from Rs 5,000 per scheme onwards, ex-GST, so a buyer adding a second sport to an existing court can see the line item on its own. Geometry is not negotiable here. A court a few inches out cannot host a fixture, and re-marking means re-coating the area underneath first.
How is artificial turf laid for a box cricket arena?
Turf arrives in rolls and is laid out as sheets across the prepared base, seamed, then secured along the edges with adhesive and pins. There are no kerbs and no interlocking joints. Edge fixing does the whole job, which is why a turf arena goes down far faster than a coated court.
Turf is the one system here that got used before it was finished, and the photograph above is the proof. That is not a scheduling failure. It is what a public riverfront amenity does to a build programme. It is also the second argument for putting the cage up first: with the enclosure already standing, a part-laid arena is contained rather than open, and the crew can keep working around people who have decided the place is theirs. The base band underneath differs from the acrylic courts. Turf can sit on a dynamic base from Rs 65/sqft or on PCC at Rs 90/sqft onwards, so the sub-structure is a real decision rather than a default. Kerbs and corner pieces appear nowhere in this project. Those belong to PP interlocking tile courts, where kerbs are counted as perimeter × 4. There is no PP tile on this site.
What does a three-sport complex like this cost?
It is priced as three projects sharing one mobilisation, not as one blended rate. Acrylic courts run Rs 65/sqft onwards for coating plus Rs 90/sqft for the PCC base. A caged turf box cricket arena runs Rs 8–11 lakh turnkey. Enclosure and lighting are always itemised separately.
Three sports on one plot is cheaper than three sports on three plots, and the saving is real rather than a discount: one survey, one mobilisation, one enclosure crew, one set of deliveries carrying all four trades. What it is not is one rate. The estimate is built as separate lines for base, enclosure, each court, marking, turf and lighting, because those lines move independently of each other. Base cost follows ground condition. Enclosure cost follows height and perimeter and has nothing to do with court area. Turf follows pile grade, lighting follows the lux class you want to play under. Hand a multi-sport buyer one blended per-sqft number and you have hidden which of those is driving the total, which is precisely the number they need when deciding what to build now and what to phase.
| Element | System | Extent | Indicative rate, ex-GST | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCC base | M20 plain cement concrete over 70 mm GSB, cured 28 days | Under both acrylic courts | Rs 90/sqft | 1 |
| Enclosure / GI fencing | Chain-link on erected steel framework | Court and arena perimeters | Rs 480/rft onwards (6 ft class) | 2 |
| Badminton court | 8-layer acrylic on PCC | BWF footprint 52 × 25 ft (1,300 sqft with run-off) | Rs 65/sqft onwards + base | 3 |
| Pickleball court | 8-layer acrylic on PCC | USA Pickleball footprint 60 × 30 ft (1,800 sqft with run-off) | Rs 65/sqft onwards + base | 3 |
| Line marking | Acrylic line paint, masked and lifted green | Per court scheme | Rs 5,000 per scheme onwards | 4 |
| Box cricket arena | Artificial turf, roll-out sheets, adhesive and pin-secured edges | 60 × 30 ft class, caged | Rs 115/sqft onwards laid · Rs 8–11 lakh turnkey | 5 |
| LED floodlighting | Side-mounted on both long sides, poles included | Per court class, approx. 200 lux | Rs 75,000 onwards per court | 6 |
| Kerbs and corners | Not applicable | — | — | — |
Recorded site area is roughly 4,700 sqft in total. The footprints above are the standard federation dimensions for each sport, not a measured breakdown of this plot. Kerbs and corners are a PP interlocking tile item only, and there is no PP tile on this site, so no kerb count applies. All rates ex-GST, GST 18% extra. Indicative: final cost depends on site condition, location and scope. Get a free itemised estimate →
Where does the Chalisgaon complex stand today?
Almost complete. The acrylic courts are coated, marked and caged. The turf is down in the box cricket arena, and the fencing and floodlighting are in. There is no handover photograph yet and we are not going to invent one. The town started using the place before we finished it.
The honest version of this outcome is more useful than a polished one. A public facility gets adopted the moment it looks playable, and that is a real operating fact for anyone planning a pay-and-play venue: your opening date is partly decided by the public, not entirely by your programme. Practically it means the enclosure and the lighting have to be finished before the surfaces are, which is the sequence this build followed. The transferable lesson from Chalisgaon is that a multi-sport site is won or lost in the order of operations. Three sports, three surface systems, four trades, one mobilisation, sequenced so that no trade ever had to work over another trade’s finished surface. If you are planning something similar, our Chalisgaon box cricket page covers the arena on its own, and the sports court construction hub covers the full scope.
FAQ
Can you build badminton, pickleball and box cricket on one plot?
Yes — Chalisgaon is exactly that: two acrylic courts and a caged turf box cricket arena across roughly 4,700 sqft on one riverfront site. The constraint is not the sports, it is the sequencing. Each surface system has its own base requirement, its own cure or set time and its own crew, so the site is programmed as three overlapping builds sharing one mobilisation.
Does box cricket turf cost the same as an acrylic court?
No, and the two should never be blended into one per-sqft figure. Acrylic coating is Rs 65/sqft onwards over a Rs 90/sqft PCC base. Artificial turf is a separate band at Rs 115/sqft onwards for supply and laying, and a caged box cricket arena runs Rs 8–11 lakh turnkey. All ex-GST, GST 18% extra, indicative — final cost depends on site condition, location and scope.
How long does the concrete base have to cure before you can coat it?
28 days. An M20 plain cement concrete base over a 70 mm granular sub-base has to cure fully before any acrylic goes on it, and there is no shortcut — a coating applied to green concrete fails from underneath regardless of how many layers sit on top. At Chalisgaon that window was used productively: the steel enclosure was erected while the slab cured.
Do we need PP tile kerbs on a court like this?
No. Kerbs and corner pieces belong to PP interlocking tile courts, where the perimeter needs four kerbs per running foot plus four corners. Neither the acrylic courts nor the turf arena at Chalisgaon uses them — acrylic bonds to the concrete, and turf is secured along its edges with adhesive and pins. If a quote for an acrylic or turf job lists kerbs, ask why.
Can the courts be used in the evening?
Yes — LED floodlighting was in scope at Chalisgaon. Our economy lighting class is around 200 lux per court, from Rs 75,000 onwards per court, ex-GST, with poles included. Lights are always mounted on both long sides of a court and never behind the baselines, so no player is looking into a lamp down the line of play. Evening hours are what make a pay-and-play venue viable.
Are these real photographs of the Chalisgaon build?
Every image on this page was taken by our own crew on the Chalisgaon site and carries a REAL PROJECT badge. None of them is a render, a stock photograph or an image borrowed from another project. That includes the unflattering ones — the half-rolled turf with a child already running across it is exactly what the site looked like that day.
