BRIDGETOWN, Feb 5: Organizers of the cricket World Cup are not panicking over the lateness of some venues as the West Indies prepares to host the tournament.

Only two of the 12 stadiums are fully complete and ready for play, but Don Lockerbie, the venue development director, said they are still on stream to be completed ahead of the start of the tournament on March 13.

“Essentially, our stadiums were technically supposed to be completed as far as legacy stadiums by Dec 31 and we only have two of them meet that timetable,” Lockerbie said on Sunday.

“The venues are all behind but we are understanding what those delays were and work has been scheduled to make sure that we don't have any venues that won't meet the schedule.”

The legacy phase dealt with the long-term look of the stadium. All will also be equipped with temporary seating facilities, which were due to be installed by Feb 19.

The first two to be completed were Warner Park in St Kitts and Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia.

The venue most under the spotlight is Kensington Oval in Barbados, which will host Super 8 matches and the final on April 28. It was due to be completed in the first week of February but that has been put back to “early March.”

“We are not in any real trouble,” Lockerbie said. “We are smoothly moving ahead and we believe we will have a wonderful stock of stadium. Kensington Oval will be a showpiece stadium and we are well on our way to be complete by early March.”—AP