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Posted on 03/23/2008 in West Indies cricket





Not many were watching as West Indies played their first Test at home this year © AFP

Media promotion of the Test series between West Indies and Sri Lanka has been visibly lacking, reports Haydn Gill in the Nation.

However, series sponsors Digicel say a very "strategic marketing campaign" has been implemented. Quoting Digicel's head of sponsorship:

"We don't want to saturate the market too early – because there are so many games in more markets than before and because we were going across nine markets rather than six in previous years.
"The tour is quite lengthy . . . until July. When we go, we go with a big bang. The campaign has started. It has been going for weeks now."

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