Good vibes for the World Cup
- 9 Mar 07, 09:35 AM
Greeting us throughout the warm-up matches here in Barbados have been numerous Bajans dressed in distinctive red and orange uniforms. The clue to their identity is the wording written across their backs. These are the Cricket World Cup Vibes - and we are going to be seeing a lot of them.
The Vibes are the volunteers who have been recruited to help make the event run smoothly and I am told over 4,000 of them will be working at the tournament across the nine host countries.
According to the official ICC World Cup guide the term Vibes is an acronym "representing the envisioned impact the participants will make the World Cup - volunteers will be intelligent, inspirational, bright, bold, enthusiastic, energetic, sensational and spectacular". This Red and Orange army has quite a billing to live up to then!
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