ICC chief slammed – by ICC – for ticket fiasco

A policeman uses a bamboo stick to move men back into a queue for tickets for the India and England Group B cricket World Cup match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore yesterday. Thousands of fans who had camped outside the stadium to buy just 4,000 tickets for Sunday’s World Cup showdown between India and England clashed with police, local media reported. REUTERS/Philip Brown

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