Crowd hostile
NZPA , Kandy Hostile crowd scenes resulted from the cancellation yesterday of the first day of the first cricket test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at Kandy’s Asgiriya stadium. When the umpires announcced shortly after 2 p.m. that play would be abandoned for the day, a section of the crowd, which had sat for more than three hours in humid conditions in anticipation of start, flocked on to the ground. Whistling and cheering, they walked in a tight mob of several hundred across the ground towards Sri Lankan players holding a fielding practice on the outfield. Police turned the crowd back to the boundary.
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Press, 10 March 1984, Page 8
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