Almost every game in the tournament in the Caribbean has played to sparsely populated crowds with high ticket prices and a clampdown on local fans bringing musical instruments into the ground being two of the major gripes at the lack of atmosphere at what should be a showcase event.
But ICC chief Malcolm Speed says he’s concentrating on the ‘positives rather than the negatives'.
Said Speed: “The local organising committees make recommendations about ticket prices to Cricket World Cup which then seeks input from the ICC. Our only input at that stage was to say we believe we need to have more tickets at the bottom end of the range.
“We expect each country will know its own economy and pricing. We do exactly the same thing if we go to England.
“We are told by people in the West Indies who set these prices, that $25 is perfectly reasonable.”
