On a day when the cricket community
On a day when the cricket community should have been hailing Imran Tahir's four-wicket haul on his ODI debut and AB de Villiers's brilliant century as South Africa thumped West Indies by seven wickets,Chopard Watches Fast And Free Service! the World Cup looked like it was turning into another public relations disaster for India.
The tournament's top official was severely criticised after police battered hundreds of fans with bamboo sticks outside Bangalore's M Chinnaswamy Stadium as anger at the lack of tickets for the clash between India and England boiled over.
In a letter leaked to the media, the governing body of the sport (ICC) accused its own president Sharad Pawar of mismanagement and said he was "threaten(ing) to undermine" the whole tournament with the way tickets were being distributed -- or rather not being distributed -- in India.
Pawar, who is also the chairman of the tournament's Central Organising Committee, was under attack for bringing ICC's relationship with its corporate sponsors to "breaking point" as they had yet to receive their allocation of tickets despite investing millions of dollars into the Feb 19-April 2 event.D&G Watches blend high fashion with reliability and quality,
In Bangalore, meanwhile, violence erupted after thousands of fans who had camped outside the 50,000-seat stadium since Wednesday were told all 7000 tickets allocated for public sale for Sunday's India v England game had sold out.
"The policemen are torturing the people. What the hell is going on?" an anguished fan called Tony told Reuters TV.
The severity of the situation did not seem to obviously register among those responsible for running the sport.
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"There is a limit where we can keep people happy.Read reviews of Australias top edhardyhatsretailers from our user community. There is not much we can do. Around 7,000 tickets were all sold out in three hours," a bizarrely grinning Srinath added as he exchanged jokes with the assembled media.
On a day when the cricket community should have been hailing Imran Tahir's four-wicket haul on his ODI debut and AB de Villiers's brilliant century as South Africa thumped West Indies by seven wickets,Chopard Watches Fast And Free Service! the World Cup looked like it was turning into another public relations disaster for India.
The tournament's top official was severely criticised after police battered hundreds of fans with bamboo sticks outside Bangalore's M Chinnaswamy Stadium as anger at the lack of tickets for the clash between India and England boiled over.
In a letter leaked to the media, the governing body of the sport (ICC) accused its own president Sharad Pawar of mismanagement and said he was "threaten(ing) to undermine" the whole tournament with the way tickets were being distributed -- or rather not being distributed -- in India.
Pawar, who is also the chairman of the tournament's Central Organising Committee, was under attack for bringing ICC's relationship with its corporate sponsors to "breaking point" as they had yet to receive their allocation of tickets despite investing millions of dollars into the Feb 19-April 2 event.D&G Watches blend high fashion with reliability and quality,
In Bangalore, meanwhile, violence erupted after thousands of fans who had camped outside the 50,000-seat stadium since Wednesday were told all 7000 tickets allocated for public sale for Sunday's India v England game had sold out.
"The policemen are torturing the people. What the hell is going on?" an anguished fan called Tony told Reuters TV.
The severity of the situation did not seem to obviously register among those responsible for running the sport.
"The biggest challenge we face today is to meet the expectations of the people, that is not possible, that is never possible,Shop for Chronoswiss Watches online at Wingate's Watches." former player Javagal Srinath, who is now the secretary of the Karnataka Cricket Association responsible for the Bangalore match,neweracapstore fittedcaps newyorkyankees ladodgers buffalonewyork. told a news conference.
"There is a limit where we can keep people happy.Read reviews of Australias top edhardyhatsretailers from our user community. There is not much we can do. Around 7,000 tickets were all sold out in three hours," a bizarrely grinning Srinath added as he exchanged jokes with the assembled media.
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