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Friday, July 11, 2025

Fire Services closes oval to control massive crowd

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Bring­ing back mem­o­ries of 1989 when fans thronged the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um to see this coun­try play a foot­ball match, the Queen's Park Oval turned in­to a sea of red yes­ter­day as T&T met Bar­ba­dos in the fi­nals of the Nagi­co Su­per50 tour­na­ment.By mid­day the ground was half full as fans brought back the good old days, reach­ing ear­ly for the 2 pm start and play­ing all fours to kill time. Be­fore the match got off the Carib Beer Stand where the 'ac­tion' takes place, it was full to ca­pac­i­ty and closed off.

Soon af­ter the en­tire ground was closed off by the fire ser­vice of­fi­cials on hand, as they did not want a sit­u­a­tion of over­crowd­ing. While this was go­ing on there were hun­dreds out­side try­ing to get in. Fans were parad­ing the perime­ter of the Oval look­ing to get in but could not.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Az­im Bas­sarath said it was a sit­u­a­tion of the fire ser­vices clos­ing off the stands where there were still a num­ber of seats avail­able. He said it was not a sit­u­a­tion of the Oval be­ing over sold. The gate­son the west­ern end was lat­er opened to al­low fans to utilise the grass em­bank­ment.Close to 10,000 fans at­tend­ed the game yes­ter­day.


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