Antigua’s expensive embarrassment

By Tony Cozier
in St John’s

It is the finest of the fine, new and reconstructed stadiums prepared for last year’s World Cup, but in the year-and-a-half since its opening, the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium has become an expensive embarrassment.

Its problems were highlighted during its first use for the World Cup’s Super Eights and were again on the third day of its inaugural Test yesterday.