hey i was at the pakistan vs wi world cup opening match as well. wud u believe it that 16 of us bought the ticket in the official counter about 15 minutes after the match started. some of the locals i spoke to said the tickets were way too expensive to buy. i mean it was no sellout crowd and the people started dissappearing as the match wore on, i mean the atmosphere was good but by no means even close to what it is for a cricket match in india!!!. meanwhile in our beach resort negril which is about 3 hrs away from kingston, people didn't seem to care the world cup was going on. u'd expect people to be glued to the TV in india during the world cup season. i spoke to a few more people who said cricket was hardly played in jamaica, soccer was the main sport and some people even believed that cricket was for weak sissies !!!! even the news coverage for the world cup match was just about a minute. its sad that cricket needs to be promoted all over again in the west indies. maybe as speedboy said there needs to be a fillip like beating a world class team or winning a world event which again creates interest. but then cricket has to be worth the livelihood as well so ICC needs to have a policy of weaker boards being helped by richer ones.