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Wills International Cup countdown
By Zahid Newaz in Dhaka
9 October 1998
The latest news in the buildup to the Wills International Cup, with 15
days remaining till the start:
- Asif Iqbal, event manager of the Wills International Cup,
arrived Dhaka Thursday. He will be staying in the capital till
completion of the tournament.
- The players and officials of nine participating teams as well as
the invited guests will stay in Sonargaon Pan Pacific Hotel. A total
of 192 rooms of the five-star hotel have been booked for them.
- As the monsoon for mosquito menace is nearing, Dhaka City
Corporation has launched a special drive to keep the players and
guests free from a single bite. The drive will continue in and around
the venue Bangabandhu National Stadium and Sonargaon Hotel until the
tourney is over.
- England will play a practice match against Bangladesh at BKSP
ground on October 23. At the same venue England on October 21 will
take on Zimbabwe in another practice match. Bangladesh may also get an
opportunity to play another match against Zimbabwe or New Zealand.
- Bangladesh Hockey Federation has postponed the league matches from
October 28 to November 1. The decision was taken after consideration
that hockey league will not get crowd and media coverage during the
biggest the cricketing show in the country.
- Apart from police and army, a private security farm personnel will
also be deployed around the Bangabandhu Stadium during the tourney.
Some securitymen of ``Group Four Securities'' have already been deployed
at BCB office.
- Ticket Committee Convenor has informed that there will be seat
numbers in all the galleries. Earlier, a decision to maintain the
system of seat numbering was cancelled. It has been restored to avert
any untoward incident. The BCB will sell about 35,000 different types
of tickets for each match.
- Tickets will be sold from 13 city branches of the IFIC Bank.
However, organisers have a plan to open one or two bank booths at the
stadium premises for selling the tickets.
- All the tickets of 16 air conditioned hospitality box and 24 non
air conditioned hospitality box were already sold. Tournament
organiser, the ICC has booked 12 non-AC hospitality box on payment
basis. Each of the AC box will cost 5,000 US dollars while non-AC one
4,000 dollars.
- Former and current national cricketers will be liasion personnel
for the participating teams of the tourney. The names will be
finalised after Bangladesh team, now participating ACC Trophy in
Nepal, return home.
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