Editorial
Stunning inauguration
Now for a great tournament
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), the Organising Committee, the government and all those involved in staging the splendid inaugural event, deserve full credit and our sincerest commendation for a job well done. We have, in a dazzling and masterly display of hosting a culturally rich, artistically magnificent and organisationally complex event, welcomed all participating teams to the World Cup and we trust that when they go back home once the tournament draws to an end, they will carry with them fond memories of their stay in Bangladesh.
On Thursday, Bangladesh brought into play the sheer energy and talent which have, despite all the constraints it has faced on various fronts, consistently defined its persona. The opening ceremony of the World Cup was a clear, somber and yet cheerful demonstration of the country presenting a mature, confident face to the outside world. To be sure, we do not mean to sound complacent, but we do feel proud enough to inform ourselves and others that we are now not too far behind other sporting nations of the world in hosting global events. Till now, it has been our enthusiasm that spoke the loudest. But after the Thursday's event, our competence should also have a place of its own. For those who were present at the ceremonies and for those who watched it on television at home, it was a consciousness of the sheer enormity and complexity, not to speak of variety, involved in the organization of the inaugural that gave them a sense of happy surprise. That we are capable of taking upon ourselves gigantic responsibilities and carry them through to fruition in a focused management of logistics was proved definitively on Thursday.
We would like to register our heart-felt appreciation to the Bangladesh Cricket Board and to the ICC on the magnificent display put up in Dhaka on Thursday evening. At the same time, we would like to congratulate the government of Bangladesh, and especially Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose interest in promoting Bangladesh in the global sports arena has always been a pronounced affair. It was a job well done, an event the likes of which can match other global sporting events. It brought the people of Bangladesh together and, with that, it reasserted the special connectivity which binds nations, for all their diversity, through sports.
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