MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Warring cricket officials, the shortage of public tickets for India’s high-profile matches and violent clashes between fans and baton-wielding police took the spotlight away from the players at the World Cup yesterday.
On a day when the cricket community should have been hailing Imran Tahir’s four-wicket haul on his ODI debut and AB de Villiers’s brilliant century as South Africa thumped West Indies by seven wickets, the World Cup looked like it was turning into another public relations disaster for India.
The tournament’s top official was severely criticised
