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Barbados: Low Cricket Turnout

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 29 March 2007 11:08 GMT

Barbados Free Press marvels at the low crowd turnout for the West Indies vs. Australia Cricket World Cup match yesterday and wonders “How many hundreds of millions of dollars spent to get to this point?” And they're even less impressed about the ICC's move to charge bar owners for showing the matches in their establishments: “What is the story in Barbados? I haven’t been to a bar since reading the article about 5 minutes ago, but now I think I need a drink.”

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