2007 Cricket World Cup

Sydney's one for the tradition of the ladies stand and just the, that famous green, the green roofs.

Yeah, because I don't know if you've got this in there, but i- yeah, Bridgetown, the oval there, I mean, that was all traditional and stuff, and then I think one of the World Cup, they had the 2007 World Cup.

That got modified, didn't it? I think they've kept some bits of it, but it turned into a modern stadium.

But Sydney, they've renovated, haven't they? But haven't they kept a lot of the original Bradman Stand and the bits sort of incorporated it into, into the new design, which is cool.

So we went to Grenada for a family holiday.

The World Cup was there, 2007 World Cup, and there was a game in Grenada.

And the hotel next door, literally next door, there was Sri Lanka, South African, West Indies staying there, and I caught wind of that, and I did not leave my mum alone about going and meeting Bravo.

So we, we go into the hotel.

Now, I've been speaking to Trinidadian journalist and voice of West Indies cricket, Fazir Mohammed, to better understand just what is going on.

It isn't exactly a surprise because the CEO of Cricket West Indies, Chris Derry, who had previously been in this position more than 10 years ago, was involved with the organisation for the 2007 World Cup.

He had more or less indicated that this was going to be an extremely difficult year, 2026, and indeed going into 2027, even with the anticipation of the odds series against India, the one that's going on right now in India, for example, and when India might come for the odds series.

one-day series and so on and that that would be a boost to the revenue so getting this information isn't exactly surprising what we are getting is much more detailed as to how things are being affected because earlier this year in the regional first class competition it was it really wasn't a competition per se because you had one team playing the other three times and And you've got six teams basically doing the same thing to determine your champion.

2007 and they changed the whole format.

2007 World Cup format was actually the best World Cup format.

Because you had smaller leagues, each game counted as a result of that.

And on the day, whether or a really good performance by one of the weaker teams could easily upset the apple cart.