Lara should come first down, he is best at that position. Viv Richards is saying because India is gone there is not that many people coming to watch cricket now (WI vs NZ). Why don't he admit the fact that the ticket price is high and the ground is out in nowhere. The West Indians themselves are not coming to watch WI matches is because India is out?? what a crap, they failed to market the WC effectively and they picked a wrong location for this ground and now trying to find some other excuse for low attendance?
The other reason is to organize the super8 matches indicating who will play whom before the start of the WC and when that schedule went wrong.
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Skinner, from USA offers his reason for the poor turnout.. "There are many reasons why the crowds are poor. Not least that it depended on whether your team won their "important" group stage game or not as to where they played their super 8 games. We wanted tickets to the super 8 stage and needed to organise accommodation, flights etc well in advance. So we took a gamble on Australia beating South Africa & organised to be in Antigua. If Australia had lost, they would be playing in Guyana....miles away. Pity the poor South Africans who paid a lot of money to be in Antigua only to watch Australia play, not South Africa. Thats my 2 cents worth!"
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This is more than 2 cents worth than Viv Ricards explanation.