JCA sets up steering committee for World Cup 2007
published: Friday | January 3, 2003
By Tony Becca, Senior Sport Editor
WORLD CUP 2007 is four years away, it will be hosted by the West Indies Cricket Board, the allocation of matches will be on a bid system, and after many questions about what is happening in Jamaica, news coming out of the Jamaica Cricket Association is that Jamaica has finally started to prepare itself to make a bid for the final.
Based on the rules and regulations of the International Cricket Council, it is the country, not the cricket association, that hosts World Cup matches, and Jamaica's bid for matches will have to be made by the government of Jamaica.
The cricket associations are expected to make the first move, however, the move has been made, and the government will shortly be involved.
According to Brian Breese, Cricket Operations Officer at the JCA, a steering committee involving the likes of Pat Rousseau - former WICB president, Dr. Wayne Reid, Alva Anderson, Teddy McCook - former president of the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association, Laurie Sharpe, and Errol Ziadie - president of Kingston Cricket Club has been set up and will meet for the first time on Friday, January 10, at Sabina Park.
At that meeting the committee will look at what, apart from a minimum capacity of 20,000, will be needed to host matches, and then form an organising committee that will include government representatives, representatives of the tourist sector, and, according to Breese, members of the group that organised the successful World Junior Games.
The bid for matches, will include one for the final, and the initial plans for Sabina Park which can now seat some 15,000 spectators, include a capacity of 25,000, modern dressing rooms, umpires rooms, and improved facilities for the press, radio and television.
