Nigerian anger at British visa delay

Friday 15th May 2009, 2:30PM BST.

mark Latter TIME is running out for the Nigerian cricket team to make it here for the start of the Pepsi World Cricket League Division Seven tournament.

At 11am on Sunday, the Nigerians are due to step on to Port Soif to take on Suriname in their first match of the competition.

However, the 14 players and three officials are still waiting in Nigeria for their British visas to be processed.

Yesterday, while his side waited by the country’s main airport in Lagos, the team manager Ladipo Idowu, was an hour’s flight away at the British High Commission in the capital Abuja.

‘They told us to come back tomorrow,’ he said.

While the tournament organiser, Guernsey Cricket Board chief executive Mark Latter (pictured), said he has had no contact from the Nigerians to say that there was a problem.