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Organizing Cricket World Cup
Magnum
ABSTRACT
Cricket is a very popular game all over the world. Every year, many tournaments are
organized among different teams at different locations around the world. ICC Cricket
world cup is the highest form of championship in one day cricket, and it is held once
every 4 years. All test playing teams and qualifying teams compete against one another to
gain global superiority. Apart from entertainment, this event also serves to foster good
will and better relationship among the teams, bring huge economical benefits to the
nation where it is being held, and also churn out huge revenue for the organizers. The
purpose of this project is to depict the activities involved in organizing a world cup.
DOMAIN DESCRIPTION
The cricket world cup is scheduled once every four years, but the preparations start well
in advance. ICC i.e. International Cricket Council, which foresees all of the activities in
cricket, selects a country to host this tournament after taking the political and economical
issues in to consideration. Normally, president of a country or a very famous dignitary
officially starts off the event. This tournament lasts for about 2 months, during which
various teams from all over the world participate and play in it. Event organizers assign
various teams to take care of the venues, player security, media interaction etc. Millions
of viewers all over the world enjoy watching the games. Once the final match is played,
there will be a winning team, which gets to keep the world cup for the next 4 years.
Figure 1 shows the best results in the ICC Criket World Cup.
ICC Cricket World Cup
Best results in the ICC Cricket World Cup
Administrator(s) International Cricket Council
Form One-day International
Timeline 1975 – present
Tournament format(s) Round-robins & Knockout
Participants 16 finalists1 (from 97 entrants)
Qualified nations 192 (total)
Current champion Australia
Most successful Australia (3 titles)
Most runs Sachin Tendulkar (1,739)
Most wickets Wasim Akram (55)
1
For 2007 World Cup. 2In World Cup history.
Figure 1: The Best Results in ICC Cricket World Cup
Figure 2: Cricket StadiumFigure 3: Media coverage and Scorecard
Figure 4: Software showing the Statistics.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM THAT IS WANTED:
Organization of world cup cricket tournament includes following functions and
requirements:
• Deciding on the country with proper geographic locations, in which the game will
be played.
• Getting the sponsors, who will give the funding to organize various activities.
• Selecting the media, who will promote this tournament.
• Constructing and updating of stadium and pavilions.
• Invite all the qualified teams and arrange for their trips, food and accommodation.
• Establishing various security systems and monitoring them during the game play.• Using the new technology systems like advanced software, which will be useful
for showing various statistic data on screen and scoreboard and for some other
visual analysis and recording.
• Creating the hype around the world cup, by using media and also by selling
tickets online to attract people.
• Arranging for a grand opening ceremony and closing presentation, in one of the
stadium.
• Arranging warm-up matches between various international teams.
• Making a whole game plan ( fixtures and results).
• Deciding about various rules and regulations for the whole events and for every
actions and situations.
• Managing the various computing systems which count the score during games,
shows player’s statistics, his records and other details and also team ranking.
• Arranging for the movement of players and equipment hiring Event Tour and
Travel Partner.
DETAILED REQUIREMENTS:
The world cup cricket match is scheduled every four years by ICC ( International Cricket
Council ). ICC will always decide that in which country the tournament will be held. To
award this event, ICC will take in account various deciding criteria like economy of the
country, availability of stadium and hotels. The hosting country must also meet all
eligibility conditions like minimum financial requirements. The country that likes to host
the tournament must also ensure that it has a corporate sponsor/s. Hosting a World Cup
tournament is a big challenge as the host country needs to meet many conditions and
requirements.
Besides the issue of economy, there are many other issues that are matter of big concern
like the security aspects to ensure players and official safety. Before awarding the
contract, information about stadium, geographical locality, and tourism are also seriously
considered. After confirming the country and the tournament sponsors, it is important
that ICC will choose a good event manager/organizer who can conduct a good and
satisfying tour for everyone.
Event organization group will create game plans, hosting schedules and also manage all
aspects of the tournament. The game plan will include drawing a board containing four or
five groups, each of them consisting of four cricket playing countries. After draws are
entered, there will be group matches to eliminate failing teams and selecting winning
teams. By the end of group playing sessions, all the emerging countries will be asked to
play for quarter, semi and final matches. The event organizer will thus conduct the
tourney very successfully.
It is also important to choose various types pf media like television, news, web-sites, and
advertising company’s to create a favorable opinion of the world cup tournaments and
also to attract international tourists. Each participating country will choose their own
team and members, coach and medical personnel. The country that hosts the tournamentmust decide on the stadium on which the games will be played and the main condition to choose a particular stadium is the availability of enough hotel rooms, transportation and tourism spots. All playing countries will be looked after well by a hospitality group who provides everything that is needed by the playing teams, that include accommodation, food, entertainment and transportation facilities. Stadium manager will be assigned to take care of the construction aspects of stadium and also the estimated capacity crowd that attends to see the match. He/she will take care of all aspects and activities that are connected with the management of stadium. It may include arranging for TV telecasting of the event, audience services, arranging for computers, and a full pledged media center. A pitch curator is appointed to prepare pitches on which the cricket will be played; he/she will also make sure that the turf and the stadium areas are kept clean and managed well. A manager will also be appointed and assigned the duty of arranging seats for dignitaries, VIP’s, and also manage refreshment facilities. Stadium manager will also import new gadgets, tools, instruments and software that will be used in security and also to broadcast the live game show. They must have high resolution cameras and video editing teams, to provide a good quality viewing on the TV. These software systems must also enable the third umpire to take proper and unbiased decisions. The software system must also be able to maintain and show a series of statistical records of the game and the team, while the score card for a given game should also be maintained by the software itself. As the event is of an important and critical nature, all software systems that manage the show must be perfect, authentic and completely stable. Security and safety of players, team, dignitaries and the stadium is also very important and care must be taken to ensure their safety throughout the tenure of the tournament. Both the government and stadium manager will involve in the security related issues. Governmental security agencies will take care of security of team members and the dignitaries, when they arrive at the stadium and while they are in the country and also maintain law and order if something bad happens in the city where the game is played. Organizers also choose one group for evaluating past experiences, rules and regulation of the game and also to make new rules and legislations for the present tournament. Umpires, referees and other key members will also be selected by the ICC to participate and manage the tournament. ICC will also look after the ranking of teams and in maintaining the players ethics and integrity clauses. On the other hand, tournament organizers and event sponsors will ensure that all teams, winners, losers and semi finalists get their share of prize money. Once the tournament is finished, they will also organize a grand closing ceremony to sign off the event. USE CASES AND USER CONTEXT:
USE CASE DESCRIPTION
Use Case 1:
Use case Name: Selects the Location(Country)
Actors/Roles: ICC(International Cricket Control) , Cricket board of selected country
Description: • Selecting the location (country) is the first step of World Cup
Cricket.
• Selection is made according to the current economy, tourism and
political issues of the country.
• ICC makes some tender and the country should meet the all
financial requirements according to the tender.
Use Case 2:
Use Case Name: Select Sponsors
Actors/Roles: Event Organizers , Sponsors
Description: • Sponsors are the main part for the successful events. There will be
lots of sponsors.
• The sponsors will give the financial support during whole event.
• Sponsors will be selected by the event organizers, by knowing the
history and their relationship with the hosts, such as credits, rules
and service.
Use Case 3:
Use Case Name: Schedule Games(Fixtures)
Actors/Roles: ICC , Event Organizers
Description: • Only qualified top 16 teams are selected for the game.
• Those teams are divided into four groups.
• The team will play each other in round robin format progressively
and finally four best teams will advance to the semi-final and the
winners of that will then compete in the final.
• The date and the stadium will be selected for each game, by taking
into account factors like weather, stadium condition etc.
• The umpires(referees) will also been selected by the ICC for each
game.
Use Case 4:
Use Case Name: Promote Events
Actors/Roles: Promoters , Sponsors , Media
Description: • Promote the events to attract the viewers.• Promoters show advertisement for world cup through various
electronic media like TV, Internet etc.
• Sponsors will also promote the event through their advertisements.
• They will promote the event, until the final game to keep the
interest alive.
Use Case 5:
Use Case Name: Evaluate ,Construct and Upgrade the Stadiums
Actors/Roles: Stadium Manager , Event Organizer
Description: • Event organizer will evaluate all the stadiums, their conditions and
then make some suggestion to stadium manager to improve and
renovate.
• Stadium manager will implement the changes as suggested by the
organizer.
• The changes can be in increasing the capacity of the stadium,
improving the ground condition, infrastructure etc.
Use Case 6:
Use Case Name: Set up the Security
Actors/Roles: Stadium Manager , Security Squad , Security Tools and Software
Description: • Security set up will be handled by stadium manager and special
security squad during and before the game.
• During the stadium renovation, security squad sets up special
security cameras in all over the stadiums.
• There will be a special security arrangement in players and VIP
section.
• During the game, squad will also take care of the crowd to prevent
any misdemeanors.
Use Case 7:
Use Case Name: Host the teams.
Actors/Roles: Hosting team, team members, security squad
Description: • Invited team should be provided good accommodation and food.
• All kind of travel and transportation should be handled.
• Taking care of the all team members security during their staying
and traveling.
• Extra entertainment like tour , cultural festival should be
managed.
Use Case 8:
Use Case Name: Telecast the game
Actors/Roles: Telecasting team, commentators , video editing teams, Camera team,
media, audience
Description: • Event organizer will select the channels, which will broadcast thegame in different countries.
• Also, it will be broadcast by other media like radio, cell-phone
and through internet.
• Good commentators, high resolution cameras and sound
arrangement should be used by telecasting team.
• There should be well organized arrangement for live video
editing.
Use Case 9:
Use Case Name: Sell the tickets
Actors/Roles: Stadium manager , Media, Internet, audience
Description: • There will be different ranges of tickets depending upon stadiums
and seats.
• Tickets can be bought through Internet, phone or personally or
some agencies that are assigned by world cup organizers.
• Media is used to let people know about ticket availability.
• Tickets are categorized in different types like general, family, VIP
etc and each ticket consist of seat number, gate number and
person number
Use Case 10:
Use Case Name: Provide software support and update centralized data
Actors/Roles: Software team, software and hardware application
Description: • Update the scoreboard during the game.
• Tracking the records of each team and player and show their
records on screen, when they achieve some significant milestones.
• Updating the records in centralized database after each game.
• Some statistical software like ‘wagon’ is used for showing various
statistic information of team and players through graphs and
charts.
• Some special software like ‘Hawkeye’ is used for tracking the ball
direction and path to make clear decision.
Use Case 11:Use Case Name: Maintain the rules and regulations.
Actors/Roles: ICC , Umpires( referees)
Description: • ICC make some decision weather to add new rules and regulation
to ‘ICC rule book’.
• These rules and regulations are for everyone, who is going to be
the part of the event, such as players, event managers, and stadium
managers.
• Umpires should follow and execute all the regulation mentioned
in the ICC rule book.
• New technologies like ‘Hawkeye’ and Ultra slow motion should
be use to make perfect decision.
• In case of any critical situation, when the whole match can not be
completed or match abandoned, the ultimate decision should be
made by both umpires and ICC representatives
Use Case 12:
Use Case Name: Ceremonies throughout the world cup.
Actors/Roles: ICC, Event organizers, Dignitaries, Sponsors, Stadium manager, audience,
players
Description: • There should be a grand ceremony to attract and create passion for
the game.
• VIP dignitaries like the president, prime minister, ICC
representative of the host country participates in opening
ceremony.
• At the end of the each game, award should be given to the
outstanding performance.
• At the end of the world cup cricket final the awards like ‘Man of
the Series’ and ‘Best Team’ would be presented.
References
• Browning, Mark (1999). A complete history of World Cup Cricket. Simon &
Schuster. ISBN 0-7318-0833-9.
• http://cricketworldcup.indya.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_World_Cup
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Cricket_World_Cup
Acknowledgement: I would like to thank the members of the Magnum team: Santosh
Kumar Gottipamula, Vamseedhar Vuppu, Dhiwakar Mani, and Nirav Kumar Patel for
submitting this above list of requirements to my problem statements archive.You can also read
