By Neto Baptiste- Observer Media - Thursday, December 6th, 2012.
St. John?s Antigua- Antigua & Barbuda Cricket Association (ABCA) Secretary Martin Cave, in seeking to make the organisation?s position clear on the positioning of two light towers at Antigua Recreation Grounds (ARG), believes their placement on the actual turf could pose a problem for the hosting of cricket matches.
The administrator, who lends his support to former cricketer Kenneth ?Flipper? Benjamin, who has reprimanded Antigua & Barbuda Football Association (ABFA) for placing the lights on the field, labelling the move as ?selfish,? admitted that he is yet to take a close look at the new lighting towers.
?I have not inspected them but I am concerned for one ? that they are on the green, meaning that they are actually on the field and is a potential hazard for cricket. The way cricket is played it is not like football where you have fielders moving on the entire surface of the green and not just a part of it. Also you have fielders skating to stop balls, sliding, jumping and all of those things. So the positioning of those lights, if I may say conservatively, would certainly not be in the best interest of playing cricket at the ARG,? Cave said.
The cricket association, according to Cave, is slated to meet with the country?s substantive Minister of Sports on the matter of the country?s most historic sporting venue being leased to any single sport association.
?As a consequence of that meeting, the board took a decision to write to the substantive Minister of Sports and that is Dr Jacqui Quinn-Leandro. We did so on 13th November and as a result of that a meeting was scheduled for last week which had to be rescheduled to tomorrow (Thursday) and we will meet at the Ministry of Sports and I believe that Senator Winston Williams is chairing that meeting. So for persons to think that we have done nothing about it would not entirely be true,? he said.
?Anyone who is fair would appreciate that the Antigua Recreation Grounds is owned by the government of Antigua & Barbuda and whereas we have been, perhaps, the more prominent sporting association that has used the ARG and we have a vested interest in the ARG,? the administrator said.
Ask why the cricket association had never attempted to acquire management of the facility rich with cricketing history, Cave said ABCA had always considered the facility one that is owned by all sporting bodies here.
?What we are talking about here is, I suppose, an understanding that the grounds was always to be used by all sports; I believe that was the legacy (of the ARG),? Cave said.
?Actually, one of our members told me he has seen or is researching to find that document that deeded or seeded the grounds to the government for the use of all sports and with that in mind we never thought to hug the Antigua Recreation Grounds for a single sport.
He added: ?Having said that, though, we are somewhat surprised that any particular sporting organisation would have thought to do so; that was not our modus operandi and certainly we are looking into the matter right now.?
An alarm was raised by Benjamin, a former national and West Indies player, over the fact that two of four lighting towers being erected at the facility are being placed on the actual field. The towers, according to Benjamin, encroach the boundary lines and would make it difficult for ARG to host cricket matches.
ABFA General Secretary Gordon ?Banks? Derrick said that care was taken to ensure that the towers are place in an area where they would not negatively impact the use of the field by any sport.
Source: http://www.antiguaobserver.com/?p=84686
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