ICC TO ASSESS BRIAN LARA STADIUM ON THURSDAY
Officials from the International Cricket Council and the Global Cricket Corporation (GCC) will visit the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad on Thursday to assess the ground's readiness to host warm-up matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
The visit will be part of an ongoing series of assessments being conducted by the officials, and they will also make trips to the tournament venue Queen's Park Oval and the two practice venues, which include the National Cricket Centre and the University of the West Indies St. Augustine campus.
Don Lockerbie, the CWC's venue development director who will head the visiting group, said there was particular interest in the Brian Lara Stadium because it is behind schedule.
"We have been making it very clear that we have been worried about the Brian Lara Stadium and the rain has been devastating to its schedule," Lockerbie said Monday.
"We are looking at our options. We will be there on Thursday to see what we have to do and we will be focusing on that venue in a very close way."
In recent weeks, Lockerbie has expressed great concern over the preparation of the ground and repeated his concern during a visit to assess the Kensington Oval project.
Lockerbie noted recently that the ground was in danger of losing its status as a pre-tournament venue and the Local Organizing Committee in Trinidad had been asked to put contingency plane in place.
"We will do our assessment and we will have to make a decision. What that decision will be I can't say until we have a close, hard look at what is happening there," Lockerbie explained.
The assessment team toured Barbados on Monday and are in Grenada today.
They move to Guyana on Wednesday, Trinidad on Thursday and Antigua on Friday.
They will be in Jamaica to visit Sabina Park on September 13 and will also do an inspection of the Greenfield Stadium project in Trelawny, in the country's north-west on September 14.
The visit will be part of an ongoing series of assessments being conducted by the officials, and they will also make trips to the tournament venue Queen's Park Oval and the two practice venues, which include the National Cricket Centre and the University of the West Indies St. Augustine campus.
Don Lockerbie, the CWC's venue development director who will head the visiting group, said there was particular interest in the Brian Lara Stadium because it is behind schedule.
"We have been making it very clear that we have been worried about the Brian Lara Stadium and the rain has been devastating to its schedule," Lockerbie said Monday.
"We are looking at our options. We will be there on Thursday to see what we have to do and we will be focusing on that venue in a very close way."
In recent weeks, Lockerbie has expressed great concern over the preparation of the ground and repeated his concern during a visit to assess the Kensington Oval project.
Lockerbie noted recently that the ground was in danger of losing its status as a pre-tournament venue and the Local Organizing Committee in Trinidad had been asked to put contingency plane in place.
"We will do our assessment and we will have to make a decision. What that decision will be I can't say until we have a close, hard look at what is happening there," Lockerbie explained.
The assessment team toured Barbados on Monday and are in Grenada today.
They move to Guyana on Wednesday, Trinidad on Thursday and Antigua on Friday.
They will be in Jamaica to visit Sabina Park on September 13 and will also do an inspection of the Greenfield Stadium project in Trelawny, in the country's north-west on September 14.
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