BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) — Barbadian officials are ‘pulling out all the stops’ to ensure the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Twenty20 tournament, to be staged in the region next year will be successful.
Kensington Oval in Barbados This was asserted recently by President of the Barbados Cricket Association, (BCA) Joel Garner who disclosed that all the criteria for staging the tournament had been met.
He said: “There was a bidding process much like 2007, but not as involved. The event is being managed by a Local Organising Committee. The BCA is part of the Organising Committee and made the bid on behalf of the West Indies Cricket Board in order to be able to have the games here.
But, we could not have done it without the participation of the Government because there were some guarantees that were necessary in terms of customs, immigration, and those sort of things and the role of the BCA was to partner with Government to get everything moving.”
This was further underscored by Project Support Leader of the Local Organising Committee, Vancourt Rouse, who explained: “The ICC …wanted to understand how we would accommodate the teams and the officials here and there are some guarantees with respect to the cost of accommodation within the summer period.
There are some guarantees with respect to how teams would be facilitated at the Grantley Adams [International] Airport and how immigration, and the customs process would flow. These are really very normal processes that we follow for any major event now, so the guarantees were not all onerous and certainly don’t compare with the 2007 event at all.”
The ICC Twenty20 cricket matches will be held in four Caribbean destinations from April 30 to May 16. Barbados, St Lucia and Guyana will host the men’s games; while St Kitts will be the venue for the women’s tournament. Tickets can be booked online or at the centres provided.
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