The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today strongly condemned the unruly crowd behaviour during the opening one-day international cricket match between India and West Indies at Jamshedpur and promised to “think hard” before alloting international matches to such venues.“Crowd disturbances on cricket ground anywhere in the world is certainly condemnable. It is against the very spirit of the game. What happened at the Keenan Stadium yesterday was no exception,” BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said. The Board, he said, would have to “think hard” before alloting international matches to venues that were “disturbance-prone”. “We have to understand that safety and security (of the players) are primary pre-requisites for staging international cricket matches.”The Board chief said that the only silver lining was that better sense prevailed finally and the game could be resumed leading to such a fantastic finish. The spectators at the Keenan Stadium at Jamshedpur began throwing missiles including water bottles on the ground when the West Indies needed 13 runs from the last three overs to overtake India’s 283 for six, holding up the game for quite some time.
