I think a lot of these faults are the fault of the ICC as I said in an earlier post. Regarding the tournament rules for rain etc., surely these should have been discussed in advance with all of the countries boards??

Ninjaman - Re Weather : Would there be a better time of year to hold the WC in the carribean? I'm not too hot on the local weather.

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Excatamondo..... this much rain cannot be a freakish once in a decade occurence.. surely the WI authorities would have known this happens at the current time of the year?

And we can blame the ICC all we want... but th fact is none of the crowd rules are set without local admin support so if the trumpets et all were banned the WI authroties must have played a part.

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If the local admins etc banned the trumpets then that is lunacy! The carribean is a special place to play cricket because of the atmosphere generated by the locals, both of which are missing from the games played so far.

The timing of the WC would probably be the ICC's domain. If, say, the weather in December was the best would they schedule the WC in then - no because that would be in the middle of a lucrative ashes tour and would get in the way of SA's home test season.

Why do you think the '99 WC was played in May. It should have been played in July / August, but that would have messed up the home test calendar, oh and I'm sure the ECB thought that by playing it in May England would have dominated on the green seaming wickets .

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I think Ninjaman will confirm that Jamaca experiences it's heaviest rain between May and October, St Kitts is the same, while Barbados is June to November.

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Cheers Ern.

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I don't think so. International cricket in the Caribbean has usually been played in the February to April period. Guyana apart, the loss of average playing time due to rain in the other countries is probably no more than that one can expect in England. I always wondered why touring teams don't get the Guyana games out of the way first - usually in February - when it is less likely to be rained out completely.

Is said IF.

i don't know how the investigation is going at all.

And I am not speculating on it.

I am saying if there investigations lead towards Pakistan or they need information that only a police force in Pakistan can provide, then I guess it's best to liaise with Pakistani police.

And when I say there is no such thing as WI police, I mean there is a Jamaica Constabulary Force, one in Trinidiad & Tobago, one in Barbados etc...

There is no regional force as the WI is not a politcial region.

So much thinking about the WI has to be re-evaluated when people remember that.

Jamaica, for example, is about 1100 miles from Trinidad

That is slightly less than London, UK to Morocco.

Yeah, thanks Ernest

This is the time that cricket is always played in the West Indies.

Some people should be fair, not every game has been hit by rain.

Also cricket is the type of game that you'd probably schedule it in a desert and then the rain would come!!!!

A lot more people in todays match between WI and Srilanka, even though WI are losing badly. I have also been informed that most of the tickets were sold, but to rabid sub continental types as well as corporates who left with the subcontinental teams. So i guess its got nothing to do with pricing. Plus the ICC are far more worried about which logo is on the bottles being used for soda pop then to see the big picture. People i know are in the WI and are having a blast.. crickets not good but aside from that its a blast hehe so i guess all my talk was a bit misguided sorry. The organizers could have done better though. Whether it is the ICC or the WI administration or the different constablaries or whoever. They did have 4 years... in every other sport u seem major improvements in big cups... we just seem to be going back.

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Wow! That is really unbelievably stupid - and what does it achieve for anyone? Even if you are not popping in and out to work, a full day event such as a 50 over cricket game should not involve voluntarily imprisoning yourself, surely? I have been to several whole day events where stepping out for a while has been the only realistic chance of getting a half-decent lunch, for example. And in Australia last year and Hong Kong last week (where I was lucky enough to have tickets for the sevens), leaving the stadium was necessary for anyone who wanted to smoke (not me, but there are some who do like to smoke a substance which is legal all over the world).

What comes next? Test match tickets with a condition that you can't leave and re-enter before the end of the match? In this day and age, controlling exit and re-entry passes really is a piece of cake and there is no reason at all that I can think of why they should not be routinely available at the World Cup.

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