Cricket's global chief Saturday admitted some venues were not yet ready for the World Cup in South Asia but vowed there would be no repeat of chaos that marred the build-up to the Commonwealth Games. International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat said four stadiums in particular were "slightly behind" in their preparations for the tournament in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, starting next month.
He was speaking after reports of chaotic scenes at Eden Gardens in Kolkata and at Mumbai's Wankhede stadium. "The concern with Delhi was more than a year ago with the state of the pitch but that has been sorted out," he told reporters in Melbourne. "There are certain stadia that our behind our schedule," he added, highlighting Kolkata and Mumbai.
"We would have liked them to have been completed. All of our reports do not indicate anything like what transpired during the Commonwealth Games. "The stadiums are slightly behind, there are four in particular I think, but they'll be done before the start of the World Cup."
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