The Match Day team was off to an early start this morning at 3Ws Oval at the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Cave Hill campus in Barbados.

Security teams, volunteers, media and operations personnel arrived at various checkpoints by dawn and underwent full security screening conducted CWC Security and Safety officers. By 7:30am all security and safety units had been briefed of the day’s duties and dispatched to their designated posts for the Sri Lanka-Scotland clash.

“We are pleased with how the first day got off. It gave us a good sense of some of the areas that we still need to work on ahead of the Super 8s.

“However, we were quite pleased with the Park and Ride sites, the team facilitation and transportation logistics, and the volunteers who rose to the occasion this morning,” said Francine Charles, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the Barbados Local Organising Committee (LOC).

Over in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, where England opposed Bermuda, CEO of the LOC, Mike Findlay, also gave the nod of approval to the day’s proceedings.

“I thought it went pretty well. There were a few early problems with Accreditation but once those were sorted things went smoothly. We are indeed happy with how everything has worked out.”

The former West Indies player added that though “we are still awaiting greater feedback, the initial comments from both officials and spectators have been very favourable”.