BCB yet to take any action
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has yet to take any step regarding the fiasco in the 100-day countdown ceremony for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.
True it was the duty of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) to stage the programme, but the game’s governing body of the country just cannot shy away from their responsibility for the mismanagement and lack of coordination in the function.
“Without any doubt it’s a cause for concern for everybody and we must take lessons from the mistakes so that we can organise the next events smoothly. The board will definitely discuss the issue once the president [AHM Mustafa Kamal] returns from abroad,” said BCB’s media committee chairman Jalal Yunus yesterday.
“I think the event management firms were at fault. There was a lack of coordination between the run-sheet and the way the programme was conducted. The board however should look into the issue seriously because the LOC is also working under them, so the ultimate blame comes down on the board,” he added.
He also believed that it was a wake-up call for the authority concerned.
The event was a total mismanagement that upset cricket-loving people of the country and many feared a bigger test might expose even greater weaknesses as the organisers miserably failed to conduct such a small but crucial event properly.
The tournament’s host director Ali Ahsan Babu however said that they had learnt lot of lessons from the incident happened Wednesday night. It will help them organise the coming programmes properly.
“We are still discussing the issue and are taking steps to avoid this kind of incidents in the future. Mistakes can happen but the important thing is whether we learn lessons from those. We are taking the criticism positively so that we can avoid such things in future,” hoped Babu.
He was however not ready to blame the event management companies.
“Grey and Matra got the rights to conduct the promotional activities. You can’t say one particular company is at fault when such thing happened. Rather we all were responsible for it,” he added.
“We are well ahead of the other two host countries in terms of preparation, so definitely we are upset with some mismanagement. But we are looking forward to better things,” he continued.
