BANGLADESH HAS proved to be a perfect host by giving impressive gala opening to ICC Cricket World cup. The ceremony was attended by an estimated 25,000 fans who were seen partying away partying away to their own rhythm of vuvuzelas, carrying Bangladesh flags about measuring upto 50 feet in length as soon as the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared the games open.
The opening ceremony started with speeches of ICC officials and ICC President Sharad Pawar left the spectators spellbounded when he opened the his speech in Bangla.
‘The people were present in such huge numbers, we have never seen like this in other opening ceremony’ said one sport journalist who was present at the time of the ceremony.
The opening ceremony marked the presence of 2100 school and college students and 350 members from the armed forces who depicted key movements that took place in Bangladesh since its creation apart from Bangladesh's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's historic March 7 speech.
The pyrotechnic show inside the stadium was one of the major attractions apart from the presence of Canadian rockstar Bryan Adams. The Grammy award winner crooned his popular songs like "Lets make it a night to remember", "Summer of '69", and "18 till I die" among others apart from south Asian singers like Sonu Nigam, Bangladeshi vocalists Runa Laila, Sabina Yasmin and Mumtaz.
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