Report on match `inaccurate'

Recent reports regarding a possible cancellation of the World Cup cricket match between the West Indies and Bangladesh at Castle Avenue on Friday week are wildly inaccurate, according to match organisers in Ireland.

Keith Lewis, event manager on behalf of Clontarf Cricket Club said yesterday that the one-day match will definitely go ahead as scheduled and reports that the current strike by scaffolders would jeopardise the event, are simply not true. The ongoing strike has already closed down several building sites around the Dublin area and has stopped the current development at Croke Park.

"The match will certainly go ahead at Castle Avenue as planned," said Lewis. "We do not know where this information came from although we have been reading and hearing about it. But I can tell you that the game is not in doubt.

"The seating is not done by scaffolders and although I don't know the technical aspects of it, there will be seating for every one of the 3,500 people and it will be one of the biggest events ever in Irish cricket - probably the biggest."

The match, one of 42 staged over fives weeks, the vast majority of them in English county grounds, has attracted unprecedented interest and is already sold out. The West Indian players, in particular, have insured top billing for the game, which is the only one scheduled for Friday 21st.

Ireland failed to qualify having lost out to Scotland.