Covert police snipers will probably be on watch on the first T20 World Cup match in New York on Monday when South Africa face Sri Lanka.
It comes amid renewed fears of terrorist assaults at this yr’s match after a chilling poster was launched hinting at bloodshed at Eisenhower Park on Lengthy Island.
Final week a pro-ISIS outlet launched a graphic which confirmed a hooded man with a rifle over his shoulder. It learn ‘You look ahead to the matches…’ after which – written in dripping blood-red – ‘And we look ahead to you…’
The poster made reference to June 9 at ‘Nassau Stadium’, which is when – and the place – bitter rivals India and Pakistan will meet in a bunch recreation.
It additionally included photos of drones flying over the stadium and a stick of dynamite with a ticking clock. DailyMail.com understands, nonetheless, that the poster has not prompted US authorities to lift the menace degree of an assault.
Covert police snipers are among the many measures being taken at New York’s T20 World Cup venue
There are fears of terrorist assaults on the T20 World Cup after a chilling poster was launched
A spokesperson for the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) mentioned in a press release: ‘The protection and safety of everybody on the occasion is our No 1 precedence and we’ve a complete and sturdy safety plan in place.
Nonetheless, BBC Sport reported on Monday that safety has been tightened by the Nassau County Police Division.
Measures put in place are to incorporate SWAT groups with specialist snipers, in addition to a lot of a plain garments law enforcement officials on the bottom.
It is also claimed officers from the narcotics division will watch over the 4 drop-in pitches that had been grown in Australia to make sure they don’t seem to be sabotaged.
The T20 match is being held in america and the Caribbean between June 1 and June 29.
There will probably be eight matches held at a newly-erected momentary stadium in Eisenhower Park – 30 miles east of Manhattan.
They embrace the standout recreation of the group levels, when India and Pakistan collide in a sold-out conflict on the 34,000 Nassau County Worldwide Cricket Stadium.
The ICC beforehand performed down fears of a terrorist menace to the match following experiences that Islamic State had inspired assaults.
Bitter rivals India and Pakistan will meet in New York in a much-anticipated recreation on June 9
Earlier this month, with experiences of threats circulating on-line, the prime minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Keith Rowley, mentioned: ‘Sadly, the specter of terrorism in its many and assorted expressions is an ever-present hazard on the earth of the twenty first century.’
‘Given the truth that dangerous actors can select to misbehave in any means potential it makes it just about unimaginable to fully seal off all alternatives.’
‘Nonetheless, with a purpose to ameliorate these risks, we on the native and regional ranges have remained alert to many threats and singularly or collectively have our intelligence and different safety businesses working to guard the inhabitants in nations and at venues all through the match.’
The ICC and Cricket West Indies wouldn’t verify that the menace had emanated from Islamic State, whose propaganda channel, Nashir-e Pakistan, are mentioned to have inspired assaults on sporting occasions.
However in a joint assertion, the ICC and CWI mentioned: ‘We work carefully with authorities within the host nations and cities, and regularly monitor and consider the worldwide panorama to make sure applicable plans are in place to mitigate any dangers recognized to our occasion.
‘We wish to guarantee all stakeholders that security and safety of everybody on the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup is our primary precedence and we’ve a complete and sturdy safety plan in place.’
