Calypso without the beat

The ICC's organising and handling of the World Twenty20 2010 was a marked improvement from the 2007 World Cup, but it was still not the best it could be. A trip to the Caribbean is meant to be a once in a lifetime experience, but in terms of crowd turn-out and player satisfaction, the event was found wanting, writes Anand Vasu in the Hindustan Times.

Travelling between islands in the West Indies has never been a smooth ride, but some of the horror stories from this tour- nament need repeating. The major airline, Liat (variously expanded to Luggage In Another Town or Leaves Island Any Time) once put Sunil Gavaskar in a jump seat along side the pilots. At other times, people with confirmed reser- vations were offloaded, flights left either half an hour before scheduled time or after and scores were left stranded without their baggage. Proper infra- structure is the first check before awarding a region or country a major event. Either the ICC could not fix problems, or just overlooked them.