A radical suggestion
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The gate revenues could be split in the proportion of capacities of the stadium. So, if the Sinhalese Sports Club had a capacity of 50,000 and the Gaddafi Stadium could hold 60,000 folks, the gate revenues would be split by the Pakistan Cricket Board and Sri Lanka Cricket in a 6:5 ratio. Ditto for in-stadia advertising rights. Now sponsorship & TV rights could be a nightmare, given how lucrative they are. But I'm sure the bean-counters can work something out on similar lines. Given that TEN Sports has the exclusive international cricket telecast rights for Pakistan & Sri Lanka (at least telecast to Indian viewers), there won't be a conflict if the games were shifted to Pakistan.
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| yea true, atleast we wont have the rain-threat in pakistan.
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Ganesh (16 Aug 2006, 2:56:00 pm)
not sure whether the proteas will travel to pakistan though.
Best thing would have been to shift the tournament out of colombo, possibly to dambulla, where there is no rain or terrosimt threat.
maleen - Dambulla was left out because of political in-fighting in Sri Lanka's administration. But I suspect rain would _still_ have been a factor in Dambulla.
By Jagadish (17 Aug 2006, 7:28:00 pm)
No, Dambulla stadium was built because it doesn't rain there, when the other part of the country gets rain.
If dambulla is unavailable, then Kandy would have been a possibility.
maleen: Thanks for the insight. Wasn't aware of the geography of Sri Lanka. I thought all of Sri Lanka had rains between July & September.
By Jagadish (18 Aug 2006, 12:00:00 am)
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