The chairman of Oman's cricket board told Reuters he would have had to wave 'Goodbye' to the Twenty20 World Cup had a deadly storm that ripped through the Gulf state on Sunday taken a slightly different path.
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Eleven people were killed as heavy winds and rain swept through the country after tropical storm Shaheen made landfall in Oman. "We got about three to four inches of rain," said Khimji."And that made the ground even more lush and greener, it looks even prettier now. It washed off all the dirt and sand."
"How often will an associate country get a chance to host and play in the World Cup at the same time? This is unreal, I'm living a dream."
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