BCCI President Sharad Pawar, after being elected Chairman of the 2011 World
Cup Organising Committee, vowed today to make the event spectator friendly with
low priced tickets for the cricket-crazy fans in the sub-continent.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Naseem Ashraf was named chief convenor
of the organising committee, which would be headquartered at Lahore.
Sujeeva Rajapakse of Sri Lanka was named treasurer of
the joint committee which will meet again in November in India.
In the meeting at Bhurban, the organisers also decided to have a common visa,
for which they would seek respective government's help.
The decision to keep the ticket prices within the reach of
the common people of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- joint
hosts of the event -- was taken after this year's World Cup in the West Indies
drew flaks for low turn out during the matches in the Caribbean.
"The World Cup is an opportunity for us to showcase South Asia to the
world and we plan to make it one of the most spectator-friendly and low cost
tournaments for them," Pawar said at a press conference after the meeting.
"It is important to have a common visa for players, officials and media
in particular to make it a smooth event," he said.
A common Caricom visa was also issued by the Caribbean community for the 2007
World Cup.
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