The attitude of the Indian cricket fan is causing a big headache to international match referee Mike Proctor. Both the one-dayers of the ongoing India-West Indies limited over series, have witnessed unruly behaviour, nearly bringing an abrupt end to the matches. The former South African captain was called onto the Vidarbha Cricket Association ground on Saturday when the umpires Asoka De Silva and K Hariharan informed him that a West Indies player, Ramnaresh Sarwan, fielding on the boundary had been hit by stones thrown by spectators from the nearby East Stand.“The West Indies team was perturbed by the situation and would have pulled out if it had happened again and I would have allowed them to pull out. Fortunately there was no problem till the end,” Proctor said while dwelling upon today’s incident.Procter said he would be reporting the incidents to the ICC and it was for the parent body to take up the matter with the Indian board (BCCI). The match referee turned down fears that the trouble prone city of Ahmedabad was a sittting time bomb if the incidents at Jamshedpur and Nagpur were taken into account. “My job is to assess the player security in each match as it comes. Ahmedabad will be just like another centre.”Meanwhile, tight security is being planned for the fourth ODI to be played under floodlights at the Sardar Patel Stadium at Motera in Ahmedabad on November 15. “Keeping in mind all the disturbances that Gujarat and Ahmedabad in particular have witnessed, about 1000 police personnel would be in and around the stadium to meet any eventuality,” Gujarat cricket Association president Narhari Amin told reporters.
