Cricket West Indies (CWI) has acknowledged a safety threat alert obtained with respect to the T20 World Cup set to happen within the Caribbean and the USA from June 1 to 29. However, CWI has assured security amids the safety dangers and talked about that it’s going to work intently with the island nations throughout the Caribbean to mitigate any such threat for easy scheduling of the marquee occasion.
As per a Cricbuzz report, the threat got here from Pakistan to the Caribbean Islands with IS making an attempt to incite violence and disrupt sporting occasions for the fulfilment of their agenda. “Pro-Islamic State (IS) media sources have launched campaigns inciting violence against sporting events, which included video messages from the Afghanistan-Pakistan branch, ISKhorasan (IS-K) which highlighted assaults in numerous countries and urged supporters to join the battlefield in their countries,” the safety threat was quoted within the report.
CWI CEO Jonny Graves assured the protection and safety of each stakeholder on the T20 World Cup saying that they’ve an elaborate safety plan in place for the match.
The report additional acknowledged that the intelligence of the safety threat got here from IS propaganda channel Nashir-e-Pakistan.
The match is about to happen at six venues within the Caribbean particularly, Antigua and Barbuda, St Lucia, Guyana, Trinidad, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados together with three venues within the United States of America, Dallas, Florida and New York. The threat is proscribed to the Caribbean islands.
The US venues share the internet hosting duties with the Caribbean islands for the group stage that includes 20 groups in 4 teams of 5 every earlier than the latter take over utterly for the Super Eight and semis and the ultimate. Guyana and Trinidad will host the 2 semi-finals on June 26 and 27 earlier than the ultimate in Barbados on June 29.
