Travel delays strike semi-finalists
Robert Craddock writes in the Courier-Mail how bags arrived at the semi-final destinations faster than the players on a day of disrupted travel in the West Indies.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Robert Craddock writes in the Courier-Mail how bags arrived at the semi-final destinations faster than the players on a day of disrupted travel in the West Indies.
Three of the four semi-finalists – Australia, Sri Lanka and New Zealand – were trapped on the same charter flight which was mysteriously delayed at Grenada airport and there were further delays for the teams in Barbados. Hundreds of international tourists were scouring airports throughout the Caribbean for lost bags as the worst fears of cup organisers were realised when the West Indies' fragile flights system fell apart.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo