Barbados Leg of World Cup 2007

Barbados Leg of World Cup 2007

It's almost here. Just a few more days and Barbados will get to know what our neighbours in seven other caribbean countries have had to put up with since the official start of the tournament in Jamaica on March 11th.

We are fortunate to be hosting our super 8 games in the latter stages so that all the teething problems should be ironed out and we will appear to host a seamless and flawless event.

One of the things that has been adjusted is the fact that you can now go in and out of the venues and not be trapped liked a caged animal for the whole game. I don't know whose brilliant idea that was in the first place. There are a number of reasons a person might need to leave the venue during the game and having paid the extraordinary sum asked for a ticket you should be able to take full benefit of it.

It seems that you can also take your own food now as long as it is in the prescribed size container and bottles of drinking water are allowed although these have to be open! make the sence in that, but the soft drinks thing is still an issue. While I understand that a plastic drink bottle can become a missile, what is the liklihood of such a happening at a cricket match? Okay, so it happened once before at a Test Match at Kensington Oval but how often is a cricket crowd provoked to such action?

When I pay my $Bds4.00 for a drink that I would buy on the outside for Bds$1.50, ($Bds.2.00 the most) I expect to get all of it and not just the part that fits the size cup the vendor happens to be using. I think this is where ziploc bags should be tested to the max, with everyone carrying their favourite beverage in those bags that they are always claiming seal so well. That will also solve the problem of "ambush marketing."

Whoever sat down and thought through some of the regulations for this cricket world cup obviously did not take the spectators view into consideration