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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

ICC demands changes after Sri Lanka chaos

International cricket chiefs Wednesday demanded that track bosses in Colombo have changes to safeguard there is no repeat of pell-mell scenes during a World Cup warm-up match.
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COLOMBO (AFP) – International cricket chiefs Wednesday demanded that track bosses in Colombo have changes to safeguard there is no repeat of pell-mell scenes during a World Cup warm-up match.

Sri Lanka Cricket came underneath glow after fans struggled to get reason of tickets as well as officials as well as reporters were shut off from entering a R. Premadasa Stadium for Tuesday’s compare in between a home side as well as a West Indies.

The ICC pronounced changes to a stadium, together with a relocation of a media enclosure, meant latest entrance arrangements were necessary.

“We need to safeguard that, in future, those arrangements have been worked by entirely as well as additionally communicated to a applicable stakeholders,” a International Cricket Council (ICC) told AFP in a statement.

“We will find to do that in time for a subsequent compare during a R.Premadasa Stadium upon Feb 26.”

The secretly run Daily Mirror of Colombo pronounced Sri Lanka Cricket confidence authorities had “mucked up” arrangements for a day-night warm-up match, that Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets.

The paper pronounced a ICC’s media physical education instructor for Sri Lanka, Brian Murgatroyd, was additionally primarily shut off from entering a venue.

The secretly run Island journal pronounced difficulty over where fans could buy tickets combined to a chaos, with a usually sales counter situated a single kilometre (half a mile) away.

The R. Premadasa track is due to horde 7 matches.

Sri Lanka, a 1996 World Champions, have been in Group A with fortifying champions Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Canada as well as Kenya.

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