The Twenty20 World Cup held in the USA and the West Indies has become a travel nightmare for not only the fans but also journalists, travelling teams and logistics.
The ninth edition of the T20 World Cup was played in nine venues across the USA and the Caribbean - Dallas, Florida, New York, Antigua, Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.
And travelling across these venues during the games was tough for all parties concerned, including match officials and logistics.
The global event started on June 2 in USA and the West Indies jointly and the final was held Saturday at Kensington Oval in Barbados.
And in between these days, there were grueling schedules for the participating teams.
First Sri Lanka camp raised concerns as skipper Wanindu Hasaranga voiced out his disappointment regarding scheduling.
After suffering a six-wicket loss in a low-scoring tie against South Africa in a night game, the Lankans had to quickly wrap up their post-match press conferences and media commitments.
Later Sri Lanka had to rush back to their hotel in Brooklyn to check out before reaching the airport for the 6pm flight to Dallas ahead of the next match against Bangladesh.
Before their clash against South Africa, Sri Lanka were not even able to train.
They were held at the Miami airport for seven hours to board their delayed flight to New York, reports ESPNcricinfo.
Afghanistan were not able to practice before their semi-final against South Africa in Trinidad.
The Afghans played their last Super Eight encounter against Bangladesh at Saint Vincent in a night game.
The match ended late at night and Afghanistan had flight on the next day to Trinidad.
The flight got delayed by four hours, the Afghans reached late in the afternoon and could not manage to train.
And their last four tie against the Proteas was scheduled for the very next day at Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad.
Even before the final, South Africa felt the heat as they were stranded for almost six hours at Trinidad airport while traveling to Barbados after their semi-final win against Afghanistan.
According to reports, a landing failure of a small private aircraft at the Grantley Adams airport in Barbados resulted in the entire South Africa squad, their families, commentators, match and International Cricket Council officials being stranded at the Trinidad airport.
This is not the first incident for South Africa as the Proteas, Sri Lanka and Ireland were in a similar situation when they had to spend a whole night at the airport while travelling from Florida to New York earlier in the tournament.
Meanwhile, journalists also felt trouble during the tournament while traveling from one island to another in the West Indies.
Usually at any ICC event, a lot of Indian journalists are seen during India games at the press box covering the matches.
But during the Bangladesh v India encounter at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua, only a few journalists came to cover the match.
And probably for the first time, the Bangladeshi journalists outnumbered the Indian media personnel in the press box during the game.
Many Indian journalists were not able to fly to Antigua for the Bangladesh clash due to limited flights or extremely high price of the air tickets.
So they had to travel to Saint Lucia for Australia matches rather than come to Antigua for the Bangladesh game.
Similar things happened with Bangladesh journalists ahead of the important contest between the Tigers and Afghanistan in the last match of the Super Eights.
All the tickets were sold out in intercaribbean airline and Caribbean airlines and options in other flights were showing travel time more than a day with transit hours and also with extreme price.
Therefore, among 20 odd journalists from Bangladesh who came to cover the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean, only one person managed to travel to Saint Vincent to cover that match as his ticket was luckily bought way before even knowing Bangladesh would reach the Super Eight stage.
World Cups in other countries offer good facilities regarding traveling schedule and routes but in the Caribbean, it became a nightmare for the fans and all the associate parties.
Many Indian fans were not able to travel to Guyana for the semi-final and waited in Barbados hoping India would reach the final.
The next T20 World Cup will be held jointly in three countries in Africa as South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia will be the joint hosts.
And ICC must take necessary measures to solve the possible traveling and scheduling issues before the next world event for not only the teams and officials but fans as well who are big part of any World Cup.